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EDB received an additional grant of S$40 million to develop Jurong Industrial Estate from the Singapore government. [13] [14] 1962 was also the year which Singapore begun to actively woo overseas industrialists as such the Japanese, [15] with some indicating interests in joint development projects and sending study missions to Singapore. [16]
The whole establishment of the post office in the 1830s consisted of one European clerk, one local writer and a peon. To cope with the increasing volume of mail, the Post Office, then known as the Singapore Post Office, later General Post Office, was moved in 1854 to its own building near the Town Hall by the side of the Singapore River.
In 2014 the company bought Henley Group, a financial adviser with offices in Hong Kong, Singapore and Shanghai, and renamed it St. James's Place Asia. [18] [19] It bought Rowan Dartington, a discretionary fund manager, for £34.2m in 2015, [20] and Technical Connection, a financial consultancy, in 2016. [21]
In 1972, Kwek Leng Beng, then an executive in Hong Leong Group, led an acquisition of a controlling stake in CDL, [11] transforming CDL into the core publicly traded entity of Hong Leong Group. [12] Kwek Leng Beng later became the managing director of CDL in 1974, and the executive chairman in 1995 after the death of his father, Kwek Hong Png. [12]
The Singapore Institute of Purchasing and Materials Management (SIPMM) is a not-for-profit, independent professional organisation founded in 1972 [4] with the aim to enhance managerial effectiveness of professionals in purchasing, logistics, materials and supply chain management. The mission of SIPMM is to lead professional competence in ...
From January 2008 to December 2012, if you bought shares in companies when Richard C. Gozon joined the board, and sold them when he left, you would have a 94.1 percent return on your investment, compared to a -2.8 percent return from the S&P 500.
Post Office Savings Bank (POSB), acquired by DBS Bank on 16 November 1998. Singapore Broadcasting Authority (SBA), formed on 1 October 1994, merged into Media Development Authority on 1 January 2003. Singapore Broadcasting Corporation (SBC) corporatised as the Television Corporation of Singapore on 1 October 1994
In 2012, Far East Organization listed the Far East Hospitality Trust on the Singapore Exchange. [16] Far East Hospitality is the hospitality branch of Far East Orchard, a subsidiary of Far East Organisation. [17] In 2013, it entered the Australian market through acquisitions and partnerships with The Straits Trading Company and Toga Group.