Golden Hope
Key people | Ahmad Sarji Abdul Hamid (Chairman) |
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Website | www |
Golden Hope Plantations Berhad (GHPB) was an estate and plantations company in Malaysia.
History
In 1905 Harrisons and Crosfield, a British tea and coffee trading company purchased several small estates in Malaysia for £50,000 and amalgamated them to form the Golden Hope Rubber Estate.[1]
In 1982 Harrisons and Crosfield sold three large plantation groups - Golden Hope, Pataling, and London Asiatic[2] - to Malaysian concerns for £146 million.[1]
The business was renamed GHPB in 1990 after
In May 1990, Golden Hope signed a memorandum with the Malaysian Instutute of Microelectronic Systems (MIMOS) for designing an industrial control system for the automation of palm oil mills; the system's project began in 1988. The control system was meant to be better than the existing ones which were forty years old.[4]
In late November 2006, Synergy Drive Sdn Berhad, a
In November 2007, shares of Golden Hope was de-listed, and the company merged with Sime Darby and Guthrie. The shares were then re-listed on the Bursa Malaysia on 29 November 2007 as Sime Darby. With the merger complete, Sime Darby was the largest company in Malaysia by market capitalisation.[6]
References
- ^ ISBN 9789814311441.
- ^ "London Asiatic". AIM25. Retrieved 30 March 2022.
- ISBN 9789679364101. Retrieved 18 June 2018.
- ^ "Golden Hope, Mimos tie up". The Straits Times. 26 May 1990. Retrieved 24 April 2024.
- ^ Clark, Giles (28 November 2006). "Malaysian bank set to create the world's largest listed oil palm player". Biofuel Review. Archived from the original on 28 September 2007. Retrieved 9 March 2007.
- ^ "Sime Darby holds the crown on Bursa". The Star. 1 December 2007. Retrieved 30 March 2022.
External links
- Golden Hope Plantations Berhad homepage
- Biofuel Review
- Union, Community Activists Engage Golden Hope Plantations
- Cognis Oleochemicals seals Chinese joint venture
- Golden Hope Sustainable Palm Oil Practices (March 2004)
- Company Overview of Golden Hope Plantations Bhd, bloomberg.com
- Golden Hope Plantations Berhad (MYX: 1953), bursamalaysia.com