For internal1 circulation only BeritaBoustead October - December 2017 Pg 3 Pg 4 Majlis Peletakan Lunas Kapal Kombat Litoral 3 Pg 8 Pharmaniaga bags two awards at Asia Corporate Excellence & Sustainability Awards 2017 Pg 9 Boustead Plantations teambuilding 2017 Pg 16 The Curve and Boustead DCP staff outing to Ho Chi Minh City , Vietnam BHPetrol Orange Run celebrates 12 years 2 Deputy Chairman/Group Managing Director's message Perutusan Timbalan Pengerusi/ Pengarah Urusan Kumpulan Staf Boustead yang dihargai, Jika kita imbas kembali pada tahun 2017, walaupun ia merupakan satu tahun yang mencabar, saya gembira kerana Kumpulan mampu bertahan dalam persekitaran luaran yang sukar bagi mencatatkan pertumbuhan yang kukuh. Setelah berjaya mengatasi pelbagai halangan, Kumpulan telah menghasilkan keputusan yang agak baik bagi tempoh sembilan bulan berakhir 30 September 2017 Dear fellow Bousteadians, dengan keuntungan selepas cukai sebanyak RM749 juta berbanding RM404 juta pada tahun sebelumnya. As we look back on 2017, though it was a demanding year, I am pleased to note that the Group was able to persevere through Keputusan baik ini didorongi oleh Bahagian Perladangan external headwinds to record robust growth. di mana kita memperolehi keuntungan atas pelupusan tanah perladangan. Pendapatan pula disokong oleh Rising above the obstacles, your Group produced handsome harga produk sawit yang lebih tinggi dan kos kewangan results for the nine-month period ended 30 September 2017 yang lebih rendah. Di samping itu, kedua-dua Bahagian with a profit after tax of RM749 million compared with RM404 Perdagangan & Perindustrian serta Bahagian Kewangan million the previous year. & Pelaburan kita turut mencatat keuntungan yang kukuh bagi tempoh sembilan bulan. These significant results were spearheaded by the Plantation Division, where we realised gains on the disposal of plantation Selaras dengan prestasi kukuh dan komitmen Kumpulan land. Earnings were further supported by higher palm product untuk meningkatkan nilai bagi para pemegang saham, prices and lower finance costs. In addition, our Trading & kita telah mengisytiharkan dividen interim ketiga Industrial and Finance & Investment Divisions both recorded sebanyak 3 sen sesaham untuk suku ketiga tahun strong profits for the nine months under review. fiskal, menjadikan jumlah dividen yang diisytiharkan setakat ini berjumlah 8.5 sen sesaham. In line with our strong performance and the Group’s commitment to enhancing value for our shareholders, we Kekuatan kita adalah berkait dengan ciri kepelbagaian declared a third interim dividend of 3 sen per share for the third yang dimiliki Kumpulan, keupayaan kita mencari quarter of the fiscal year, bringing total declared dividends to peluang-peluang bagi menghasilkan pertumbuhan yang 8.5 sen per share to date. konsisten, komitmen kita untuk memastikan pelaburan yang berkualiti serta kumpulan bakat kita. Hasilnya, Our strength is rooted in the diversified nature of our Group, kita telah mencapai beberapa kejayaan penting sejak our ability to seek opportunities to deliver consistent growth, our commitment to ensuring the quality of our investments as beberapa tahun. well as our driven talent pool. Over the years, this has resulted in significant successes. Staf Boustead yang dihargai, bagi perjalanan 2018 kita, saya berharap kita akan terus maju, secara peribadi dan Fellow Bousteadians, in our 2018 journey, it is my hope that profesional, bersama-sama Kumpulan. Kuncinya ialah we continue to thrive, personally and professionally, with kita perlu sentiasa berhati-hati dan teguh dalam usaha the Group. The key is to remain vigilant and steadfast in our kita sebagai satu pasukan. endeavours as a team. Akhir sekali, Selamat Tahun Baru kepada anda semua. Lastly, Happy New Year to all. Let us look forward to another Marilah kita memandang ke hadapan untuk satu lagi strong year. tahun yang mantap. Thank you. Terima kasih. Tan Sri Dato' Seri Lodin Wok Kamaruddin Tan Sri Dato’ Seri Lodin Wok Kamaruddin 3 Majlis Peletakan Lunas Kapal Kombat Litoral 3 Dato’ Sri Abdul Rahim menekan butang sebagai tanda perasmian peletakan lunas kapal LCS 3 Turut hadir pada majlis tersebut ialah Panglima Angkatan Tentera, YM Jeneral Tan Sri Raja Mohamed Affandi Raja Mohamed Noor; Panglima Tentera Laut, YBhg. Laksamana Tan Sri Ahmad Kamarulzaman Hj. Ahmad Badaruddin; Panglima Tentera Udara, YBhg. Jeneral Tan Sri Dato’ Sri Hj. Affendi Buang; Pengarah Urusan Kumpulan Boustead Holdings Berhad, YBhg. Tan Sri Dato’ Seri Lodin Wok Kamaruddin dan Pengarah Urusan Boustead Naval Shipyard Sdn. Bhd., YBhg. Tan Sri Dato’ Seri Ahmad Ramli Dato’ Sri Abdul Rahim menandatangani buku pelawat Hj. Mohd Nor. atu Majlis Peletakan Lunas SKapal Kombat Litoral (LCS) 3 Tentera Laut Diraja Malaysia (TLDM) telah diadakan di BN Shipyard, Lumut pada 18 Disember 2017. Majlis disempurnakan oleh Ketua Setiausaha Kementerian Pertahanan, YBhg. Dato’ Sri Abdul Rahim Mohamad Radzi. Peletakan lunas ini menandakan bermulanya proses pencantuman blok yang menjadi asas kepada sebuah kapal dengan menggunakan kaedah pembinaan modular. Pada majlis tersebut, penyambungan blok 03, 04 dan 05 telah dilakukan sebagai simbolik peletakan lunas kapal Sesi bergambar setelah selesai acara perasmian LCS 3. 4 Pharmaniaga inks collaboration with TDA and Hilleman Labs for vaccine development harmaniaga Berhad (Pharmaniaga) will be offering halal and Pcost-effective vaccines for the public at large especially to Malaysians. The vaccines development programme is reflected from the signing of Memorandum of Collaboration between Pharmaniaga, Technology Depository Agency (TDA) and Hilleman Laboratories (Hilleman Labs) held on 5 December 2017. Under this Memorandum of Collaboration, Pharmaniaga and TDA will be working hand-in-hand to coordinate the efforts in developing and manufacturing vaccines that can be incorporated into Malaysia’s National Immunisation Programmes. Hilleman Labs will provide vaccine knowhow and technologies. The signing ceremony was held at Royale Chulan Kuala Lumpur and attended by YB Datuk Seri Dr. S. Subramaniam, Health Minister, Ministry of Health and YBhg. Tan Sri Dato’ Seri Lodin Wok Kamaruddin, Chairman of Pharmaniaga and YBhg. Signing ceremony of Memorandum of Collaboration between Pharmaniaga, TDA and Hilleman Labs General Tan Sri Dato’ Mohd Ghazali Hj. Che Mat (R), Chairman of Boustead Holdings Berhad. Pharmaniaga bags two awards at Asia Corporate Excellence & Sustainability Awards 2017 harmaniaga received the Top Companies in Asia Award while its Managing PDirector, Dato’ Farshila Emran was awarded the Woman Entrepreneur of the Year Award by MORS Group at the Asia Corporate Excellence & Sustainability Awards (ACES) 2017 Gala Dinner held on 26 October 2017 in Singapore. YBhg. Dato’ Farshila Emran received the special recognition awards from Dr. Jayanthi Desan, one of the juries for ACES Awards during the award ceremony. These recognitions were awarded to Pharmaniaga and Dato’ Farshila based on the successful companies and individuals in Asia across two main domains which are leadership and corporate social responsibility. Through ACES, companies and its leaders share a platform to take pride of their excellence, to learn, to build connections, and exchange new ideas while showcasing Asia’s best practices for sustainable growth. Dato’ Farshila (two from left) receiving the awards during the Gala Dinner Pharmaniaga sets foundation for future growth harmaniaga hosted the ‘Go Live’ Ceremony of the SAP PS/4HANA system implementation on 8 November 2017 for its manufacturing plants to signify a strategic chapter in the Company’s digital transformation journey. Pharmaniaga appointed ABeam Consulting for the deployment of the SAP S/4HANA, a real-time enterprise resource management suite for digital business. SAP S/4HANA is built on SAP’s advanced in-memory platform, SAP HANA, and offers a personalised, consumer-grade user experience with SAP Fiori. This new system implementation is aimed at providing an avenue for Pharmaniaga to elevate its effectiveness and efficiency in managing production orders, quality management, delivery and product costing. From left: Mr. Terrence Yong, Managing Director of SAP Malaysia; Dato’ Farshila, Managing Director of Pharmaniaga; En. Mohd Suffian Working with ABeam Consulting as the implementation partner, Hj. Haron, Senior Independent Non-Executive Director of Pharmaniaga and Mr. Akio Suzuki, ABeam Consulting spokesperson revealing the Pharmaniaga embarks on this project with an aim to become a full- signing plaque at Royale Chulan Damansara fledged integrated healthcare solutions provider by standardising its operations across all its manufacturing plants. 5 Anugerah Khidmat Setia Kumpulan BHIC Pn. Azlinda Ahmad Zainal, Ketua Pengurusan Modal Insan Tan Sri Ramli menyampaikan anugerah kepada Ir. Ee Teck Chee Kumpulan BHIC menyampaikan anugerah kepada seorang kakitangan atu Majlis Makan Malam Anugerah Khidmat Setia telah Sdiadakan untuk para kakitangan Kumpulan Boustead Heavy Industries Corporation Berhad (BHIC) di Hotel Sfera, Seri Manjung pada 6 Oktober 2017. Majlis yang dirasmikan oleh Pengarah Urusan BHIC, YBhg. Tan Sri Dato’ Seri Ahmad Ramli Hj. Mohd Nor itu diadakan bagi menghargai dan mengiktiraf perkhidmatan, jasa dan sumbangan serta kesetiaan warga Kumpulan BHIC selama 15, 20 dan 25 tahun perkhidmatan mereka. Seramai 108 orang kakitangan yang berkhidmat di empat buah anak syarikat Kumpulan iaitu Boustead Naval Shipyard Sdn. Bhd. (BN Shipyard), BHIC Defence TechServices Sdn. Bhd., BHIC