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PPB group is a conglomerate involves in sugar refining, grains trading, flour and feed milling and film exhibition and distributions. PPB group supplies 50% of domestic sugar requirements. It is also a market leader supplies more than 40% of Malaysian flour requirements. In the leisure sector, it has 400 screens in 40 locations nationwide. PPB’s strategic acquisitions and business ventures over the years have enabled it to successfully diversify its businesses to include Environmental Engineering and Utilities led by the
Chemquest Group, in which PPB has 55% equity interest. This segment provides water engineering, sewage treatment and flood mitigation services. PPB owns and manages several retail and commercial properties comprising a shopping centre, Cheras LeisureMall, an office
building, Cheras Plaza in Taman Segar, Kuala Lumpur, as well as New World Park and the Whiteaways Arcade in Georgetown, Penang. Two wholly-owned subsidiaries of PPB, PPB Hartabina Sdn Bhd and PPB Property Development Sdn Bhd, carry out property
development and provide project and property management services, respectively, for projects undertaken and properties owned by PPB Group companies and affiliates.
In June 2007, PPB disposed its oil palm businesses to Wilmar International for a 18.3% stake.
PPB is an 18 percent shareholder in associate company Wilmar International, an agribusiness group based in Singapore. Wilmar is one of the largest cultivators of palm oil and the largest palm oil trader in the world. The total planted area is 232,053 hectares (ha) as at 31 December 2020, of which about 65% is in Indonesia, 26% in East Malaysia and 9% in Africa. Due to Wilmar's size, it contributes to more than half of PPB's pre-tax profits (under the equity method of recognizing its share of Wilmar's profits in its own profit or loss).
The Tropical Oils (Plantation, Manufacturing and Merchandising) segment comprises the Group’s entire value chain of palm oil assets from plantations and palm oil mills to processing, merchandising, branding and distribution of palm oil and lauric related products including oleochemicals, specialty fats and biodiesel.
FERTILIZER
Wilmar’s fertilizer operations and markets are located in Indonesia and Malaysia. We are one of the largest fertilizer players in Indonesia, with 1.2 million MT per annum production capacity dedicated to nitrogen, phosphorus and potassium (NPK) compound fertilizers. We have a further 100,000 MT capacity in Sabah to complement the Group’s activities in East Malaysia. We also engage in the trading and distribution of various straight fertilizers and agrochemicals, making us a one-stop supplier for agriculture inputs.
