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The company was founded by the late Tan Sri Loh Boon Siew in the 1960s, beginning as the Malaysian distributor for Honda Super Cub motorcycles and later cars. [2]The groups has a combined total asset exceeding RM3 billion, shareholders fund exceeding RM2.2 billion and Cash/Cash Equivalent exceeding RM1 billion as of 31 December 2001 (source: annual audited accounts).
After World War II, he started selling bicycles, tires and motorcycle accessories, and soon he expanded his business to used cars, transports and buses. In the 1950s, Boon Siew went into property development with his friends Say Bee and Poh Heng by building residential villas in Taman Saw Kit in Penang. His work is continued by his Boon Siew Group.
Location of Singapore Singapore is a sovereign island country in maritime Southeast Asia. A global city, it has a highly developed market economy, based historically on extended entrepôt trade and more recently as a financial hub as well. Its economy is known as the most freest, most innovative, most competitive, most dynamic and most business-friendly in the world by various multinational ...
Loh Boon Siew (1915–1995), first distributor of Honda motorcycles in Malaysia; Lim Goh Tong (1918–2007), founder of the Genting Group; Lillian Too (born 1946) Lim Kok Thay (born 1951), chairman of the Genting Group; Quek Leng Chan (born 1941), co-founder of the Hong Leong Group
The Borneo Company Limited (BCL) was registered in London on 6 May 1856 and MacEwan & Co. was appointed as the company's Singapore agent. The MacEwan company was established in 1852 and was managed by John Harvey. BCL London had taken over the MacEwan Company in 1854. By 30 April 1857, the MacEwan Company was dissolved by BCL.
Bian Chiang Bank Ltd; British East India Company; British North Borneo Company; Bolton Finance Berhad; Boon Siew Finance Berhad; Board of Commissioners of Currency, Malaya; Board of Commissioners of Currency, Malaya and British Borneo; Borneo Development Corporation Sdn Bhd (Sabah) Borneo Development Corporation Sdn Bhd (Sarawak) BSN Commercial ...
Brunei Darussalam is a country and sovereign state located on the north coast of the island of Borneo in Southeast Asia. Apart from its coastline with the South China Sea, the country is surrounded by the state of Sarawak, Malaysia. The remainder of Borneo, and its geographically largest part is Kalimantan, part of Indonesia.
In 1971, the Singapore government awarded him the Bintang Bakti Masyarakat (Public Service Star), and he was named Singapore Businessman of the Year in 1990 and 2001. [ 14 ] In 2006, for his contributions to the banking sector, he was presented with the inaugural Credit Suisse-Ernst & Young Lifetime Achievement Award.