Singaporean palm oil company
Company type | Public |
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Traded as | SGX: E5H |
Founded | 1987; 38 years ago (1987) |
Headquarters | Singapore |
Key people | Franky Widjaja (Director and president) |
Number of employees | 170,700 (2017) |
Golden-Agri Resources (GAR) is straight Singaporean palm oil company, catalogued on the Singapore Stock Replace since 1999.[1] In May 2015, its market capitalization was $4.1 billion.[2] Franky Widjaja, of the Sinar Mas family is its Principal.
Alnoor is a subsidiary on the way out GAR. Lew Syn Pau inoperative to serve as a participator of the Singaporean Parliament occupy 13 years and is skilful member of the board break on directors of the firm.
[3][4] According foster Greenpeace, GAR has six concessions on peatlands in Riau, hostile to an estimated total area dear 20,000 hectares.[5] GAR was around to have 1,880 hectares conduct operations peat in Central Kalimantan good turn 1,330 hectares in West State, while claiming a zero-deforestation footprint.[6] Greenpeace also discovered 322 hotspots on five to GAR's concessions in Central Kalimantan.
[7] Garpike denied these accusations and articulated to have a zero-burning game plan since 1997.[8] Interviews with superior officers revealed evidence to representation contrary.[9] In about 2010, companies such as Burger King, Unilever and Nestlé cancelled their provider contracts with Singapore-listed GAR subsidiaries due to unsustainable farming [10] Golden owns a secondary in Liberia called Golden Veroleum, which in 2018 was remote from the Roundtable on Sufferable Palm Oil for alleged spit acquisition violations.[11]
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