SD Guthrie Berhad Stocks

Sime Darby Plantation Berhad functions as an investment holding company with extensive global operations in integrated plantations. The company organizes its business across several divisions: Upstream operations in Malaysia, Indonesia, Papua New Guinea, and the Solomon Islands, alongside its Downstream and Other Operations segments. At its core, the company cultivates and manages vast estates of oil palm, rubber, coconut, and sugarcane. It also processes fresh fruit bunches into crude palm oil and palm kernel, refines and sells rubber and sugar, and undertakes cattle rearing and beef production. The scale of its upstream activities is substantial, encompassing 239 plantation estates, which include 744,630 hectares dedicated to oil palm, complemented by 70 palm oil mills and 11 refineries. Downstream, Sime Darby Plantation is involved in crushing palm kernels to produce crude palm kernel oils and expellers. It also manufactures, blends, markets, and distributes a diverse range of products, including refined edible oils, specialty fats, nutraceuticals, oleochemicals, ethanol, biodiesel, and various palm oil derivatives. Beyond these, the company offers agricultural products and services, oil palm tissue culture, seed production, and engages in extensive research, development, and breeding programs for oil palm and rubber, with a particular emphasis on genome science and green technology. Its additional ventures cover commodity trading, logistics, market risk management, property rentals, facility management (like guesthouses), and the manufacturing of specialized products such as rat baits and various lecithin compounds. Incorporated in Petaling Jaya, Malaysia, in 2004, Sime Darby Plantation Berhad operates as a subsidiary of Permodalan Nasional Berhad.