Kuala Lumpur Kepong Berhad (2445.KL)

Kuala Lumpur Kepong Berhad engages in the plantation, manufacturing, and property development businesses. The company operates through five segments: Plantation, Manufacturing, Property Development, Investment Holding, and Others. It is involved in the cultivation, processing, and marketing of palm and rubber products; extraction of crude palm oil; refining of palm products; and kernel crushing and trading of palm products. The company also offers oleochemicals, fatty acids and esters, fatty alcohols and derivatives, other chemicals, non-ionic surfactants and esters, and palm phytonutrients and other palm derivatives; specialty fat, shortening, and cocoa butter substitutes products; basic organic chemicals from agricultural products; alcohol ether sulphates, alcohol sulphates, and sulphonic acids; and rubber gloves, parquet flooring products, pharmaceutical and bio-pharmaceutical intermediates, and fine chemicals. In addition, it engages in the provision of farming and management services; agronomic service and research business; operation of biogas capture plants; and placement of deposits with licensed banks, and investment in money market funds and quoted and unquoted corporations. Further, the company operates holiday bungalows; develops residential and commercial properties; stores and distributes bulk liquid; invests in, rents, and manages properties; manufactures jams and preserves; owns and operates aircrafts; and offers offshore captive insurance, management, and consultation services, as well as logistics services related to palm products. It operates in Malaysia, Far East, the Middle East, South East Asia, Southern Asia, Europe, North America, South America, Australia, Africa, and internationally. The company was founded in 1906 and is headquartered in Ipoh, Malaysia.