Sime Darby Sectors

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Sime Darby Sectors and Industries
Sime Darby is a conglomerate company whereby it involves in more than one sector which is operating locally and internationally. Sime Darby in the website had classified its sectors into two, which are core businesses and other businesses. The core businesses that are running are plantation, industrial, motors, property and energy & utilities. Meanwhile the minor industries of Sime Darby are healthcare, consumer products and insurance broking and agency.
Since the pioneering stage of Sime Darby, the company had started off with plantations of rubber mainly in Malaysia. Even though they had diversified their nature of business, plantations are still the main business of the company. Most of the rubber plantations are then substituted by oil palm to meet the needs of industry back then. Currently, Sime Darby has about 204 estates in Malaysia and Indonesia and in Malaysia itself; Sime Darby has about 129 estates of oil palm estates. Sime Darby is one of the largest contributors of palm oil in the world whereby, it covers up to 6% of the world supply and roughly 66% came from Malaysia. Sime Darby does not just own oil-palm and rubber plantations. They also mill their own fresh fruit brunches into palm oil which is for the sake of effective management and cost effective business. They have 61 oil mills across both Malaysia and Indonesia. As one of the professionals in oil palm industries, Sime Darby has become the pioneer of sustainable agricultural practices and applies Zero Burning Replanting technique to dispose their plants.
Meanwhile, in industrial division, Sime Darby also provides varieties of equipment and services. They sell and rent new machines, engines and used equipments and also offer ...

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...e Darby are healthcare, consumer products and insurance broking and agency. Sime Darby had opened up several Medical Centers in Malaysia by collaboration with Ramsay Health Care. Besides that, the collaboration had also managed to operate Sime Darby Nursing and Health Sciences College. In addition, Sime Darby holds up to 30% shares of Tesco Stores in Malaysia which is one of the most competence consumer products hypermarkets. Insurance broking and agency owned by Sime Darby is the collaboration with Lockton (world’s 9th largest risk services group) and specializes in delivering risk management, insurance and takaful solutions. Sime Darby Lockton Insurance Brokers Sdn Bhd is licensed and regulated by Bank Negara Malaysia.

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