Happy 5th Anniversary

Wow! How time flies, a year back I wrote the same exact entry for our anniversary. But I don't feel like a year...For the 5th Anniversary, we went to Doubletree by Hilton for buffet dinner. Not so bad, the restaurant looks classy but food wise, a little bit limited of varieties.  So, what's been going on this year? The little baby on left is our new addition to the family and she is so bam bam (chubby) and super cute! The big brother on...

IOI's financial year 2012 brief analysis

I’ve been digging up details on IOI’s Annual Report for financial year 2012 recently. What I concerned most are anything relevant to me thus the figures presented would relate to that. Let see, the revenue was RM 15 billion but what important to me is the revenue contribution from Loders Croklaan. From the ‘Sales of Specialty Oils and Fats and related products’, I can see that the revenue was RM 3.5 Billion so it’s about 23% from total revenue....

Quarterly Analysis for Big 4 (Plantation Companies)

For quarter end of Sept 2012, following is analysis of net profit margin of Big 4 plantation companies in Malaysia. IOI again leading in net profit margin % with 18.21% followed closely by KLK with 17.79%, Sime Darby 8.78% and Felda 5.9...