KUCHING: Borneo Oil Bhd’s fast food restaurant chain SugarBun has reaped benefits from collaboration with Foodpanda as it helped to boost sales. In first quarter ended June 30, 2019 (Q1-2019), the group’s fast food and franchise operations posted increase in revenue by RM530,000 to RM12.44 million from RM11.91 million in
KUCHING: Property developer Ibraco Bhd plans to kick-start its second project in Peninsular Malaysia next year. The new project will be on a leasehold land on Bandar Petaling Jaya Selatan, which Ibraco acquired for about RM37.4 million last year. Measuring 15,811.66 sq m, the land is approved for mixed commercial development.
KUCHING: Rimbunan Sawit Bhd’s vice-chairman Tiong Kiong King has sold his entire direct shareholding in the oil palm plantation company. Tiong, 71, directly owned 11,011,500 shares or 0.78 percent as at April 1, 2019. He aggressively disposed off the shares over the past six months in the open market until
KUCHING: Dayang Enterprise Holdings Bhd has fixed the issue price of its rights shares at 92 sen each. The issue price represents a discount of 91 sen or about 49.73 percent to the theoretical ex-rights price of Dayang shares of RM1.83, which was calculated based on the five-day volume weighted average
KUCHING: Serba Dinamik Holdings Bhd group managing director and CEO Datuk Dr Mohd Abdul Karim Abdullah (pic) has forked out RM10.542 million to acquire 2.51 million of the company’s shares at RM4.20 each. Making the acquisition in a direct business transaction on Nov 6, he has upped his equity interest
KUCHING: Velesto Drilling Sdn Bhd has secured a US$131 million (RM541 million) contract from Carigali Hess Operating Company Bhd for the provision of 10K jack up drilling rig for its 2020 drilling programme. The contract is expected to commence in second half of 2020 for a duration of three years,
KUCHING: The oil palm business has emerged as the biggest revenue generator for Jaya Tiasa Holdings Bhd, a traditional timber-based company. The group’s planted oil palm areas has expanded to 69,589 hectares, spreading over 10 plantations in Sarawak, which have all matured. The group also owns four palm oil mills
KUCHING: Jaya Tiasa Holdings Bhd expects its logging business to be hit by weakening demand and increased competition from other timber producing regions. According to its chief executive officer Datuk Wong Sie Young, the ongoing trade war between US and China would affect timber price and demand. Already, the Sibu-based
KUCHING: Sarawak Consolidated Industries Bhd (SCIB) has secured five engineering, procurement, construction and commissioning (EPCC) contracts worth a total of RM175.4 million. Two of the contracts are in Malaysia and three others overseas — in Indonesia, Qatar and Oman. This is believed to be the first time for SCIB, whose core
KUCHING: Shin Yang Shipping Corporation Bhd (Syscorp) has boosted the transportation capacity of its containerised shipping with the acquisition of two container vessels. The two vessels, which were bought in the financial year ended June 30, 2019 (FY2019) has carrying capacity of 800 to 1,000 twenty-foot equivalent units (TEU) per