Wilmar International Stock

Wilmar International Limited, an investment holding company, operates as an agribusiness company in Asia. The company’s business activities include oil palm cultivation, edible oils refining, oilseeds crushing, consumer pack edible oils processing and merchandising, specialty fats, oleochemicals and biodiesel manufacturing, and grains processing and merchandising.

The company’s operations are located in approximately 20 countries across four continents, with a primary focus on Indonesia, Malaysia, China, India and Europe. Its products are sold to approximately 50 countries worldwide.

Merchandising & Processing - Palm & Laurics

The company is a processor and merchandiser of palm and lauric oils, with a distribution network spanning approximately 50 countries. Its products include RBD (refined, bleached, and deodorised) palm oil, RBD palm olein, RBD palm stearin, RBD palm kernel oil, RBD palm kernel olein, RBD palm kernel stearin, crude palm oil (CPO), specialty fats, oleochemicals, and biodiesel. The company owns processing plants in palm producing countries like Indonesia and Malaysia, as well as in consuming countries, such as China, The Netherlands, Germany and Vietnam. Through joint ventures, the company also owns processing plants in consuming countries like India, Russia, Ukraine, Uganda, and Ivory Coast.

Merchandising & Processing - Oilseeds & Grains

The company is an oilseeds crusher in China, where it processes oilseeds like soybean, rapeseed, groundnut, cottonseed, sunflower seed, and sesame seed into protein meal and edible oils. The company also engages in the milling of wheat into wheat flour and wheat bran, as well as the milling of paddy into rice, rice bran, and rice bran oil.

Consumer Products

The company, together with its joint ventures, produces consumer pack edible oils and markets them under own brands in China, India, Indonesia, Vietnam, and Bangladesh.

Plantations & Palm Oil Mills

The company is an oil palm plantation owner with plantations in both Indonesia – Sumatra and Kalimantan, and Malaysia – Sabah and Sarawak. It also processes Fresh Fruit Bunches (FFB) from third-party suppliers, including small landholders under the Plasma Programme developed by the company.

The CPO and palm kernel produced by palm oil mills are supplied primarily to the company’s refineries and palm kernel crushing plants. The company also owns a 30% stake in a plantation in Uganda and operates in the West Africa through a joint venture with Olam International Limited and SIFCA Group of Africa.

The company’s planted area was approximately 4,000 hectares in Uganda and approximately 36,000 hectares in West Africa as of December 31, 2008. It also managed approximately 120,000 hectares under a smallholders scheme in West Africa.

Others

The company is also engaged in the manufacture and distribution of fertilizers, and the shipping of bulk oil. Customers are primarily its FFB, CPO, and palm kernel suppliers, as well as its own plantations.

The company produces NPK compound fertilizers, which comprises three primary nutrients – nitrogen, phosphorus, and potassium. It is also engaged in the trading of straight fertilizers, such as potash, rock phosphate, urea, ammonium sulphate, and kieserite.

Shipping

The company owns a fleet of liquid bulk vessels. In 2008, it acquired a 60% stake in Raffles Shipping Corporation Pte Ltd (RSC).

History

Wilmar International Limited was founded in 1991.