Profile
Boustead Holdings Berhad, one of Malaysia’s oldest diversified conglomerates,
was founded in 1828. Listed on Bursa Malaysia in 1961, Boustead
today has 133 subsidiaries of which 3 companies are listed and 16
associate companies of which one is listed and has total assets
in excess of RM8 billion and more than 12,000 employees. The major
shareholder of Boustead today is Lembaga Tabung Angkatan Tentera
(LTAT).
The Boustead Group's operations and business activities can be categorised
into six core business areas namely Plantation,
Heavy Industries,
Property,
Finance & Investment,
Trading
and Manufacturing
& Services.
The
businesses of Boustead Holdings Berhad include estate/plantation
management, agricultural research & advisory services, planting
and processing of oil palm, property development & investment, project
management, building, repair and maintenance of naval & merchant
ships, automobile dealership, fibre cement products manufacturer,
general insurance, banking/financial services, hire purchase and
lease financing, engineering equipment and chemicals distributor,
computer service & systems design, shipping agent/marine surveys
& consultancy, building product distributor, paint manufacturer,
operation of a university, travel agent, hotel operations, manufacture
of chilled water, manufacture and distribution of pharmaceutical
products, smart card personalisation, consumer goods distributor
and chocolate & sugar confectionery manufacturer.
