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  • Why did Perlis Plantations move overseas?
  • In 1995, the company's growing interest in that market led it to move overseas, with the acquisition of a majority stake in a 10,000-hectare plantation in Sumatra, in Indonesia. In 1997, Perlis Plantations reorganized its Malaysian oil palm plantations business, merging those operations into a single entity, PPB Oil Palms (PPBOP).
  • How many Perlis Plantations are there in Malaysia?
  • Perlis Plantations continued to add palm oil plantations in the 1990s, with a total of nine plantations in Malaysia by mid-decade. In 1995, the company's growing interest in that market led it to move overseas, with the acquisition of a majority stake in a 10,000-hectare plantation in Sumatra, in Indonesia.
  • Who is the owner of Perlis Plantations Berhad (PPB)?
  • PPB is also the single largest shareholder of Wilmar International, one of the leading palm oil producers and agribusiness companies in the world. The company was founded in 1968 as Perlis Plantations Berhad (from which it derives its current name) by Robert Kuok to cultivate and mill sugar cane in the northern Malaysian state of Perlis.
  • What happened to Perlis Plantations?
  • 1976: Perlis Plantations acquires MSM. 1987: Perlis Plantations acquires majority control of FFM; launches oil palm plantations operations. 1993: The company acquires 40 percent of Chemquest, and enters the environmental engineering market. 1996: The company merges its oil palm plantations into the publicly listed PPB Oil Palms (PPBOP).
  • When was Perlis Plantations Berhad incorporated?
  • beginning f PPB Group BerhadIn 1968...Perlis Plantations Berhad (“PPB”) was incorporated on 1 November 1968, to undertake large scale cultivation and milling of sugar cane in Chuping, Perlis in response to the Government’s wish to est
  • What happened to PPB Oil palms?
  • 1996: The company merges its oil palm plantations into the publicly listed PPB Oil Palms (PPBOP). 2000: Chemquest, through its 25 percent stake in Konsortium Abass Sdn Bhd, wins the concession for the Sungai Semenyih Dam and Water Treatment Plant; Perlis Plantations changes its name to PPB Group.