Company Information

Business Model & Strategy

Olam’s business model is built on an asset-light supply chain trading business, a core business which has been the engine of growth over the past 28 years and remains at the heart of our growth strategy even as we embark on expanding our upstream and midstream/downstream activities selectively.

Shareholding Structure

Olam was established in 1989 by the Kewalram Chanrai Group (KC Group), one of the oldest international companies in Africa and Asia with more than 150 years of trading history. Over the past 28 years, Olam has developed into a global agri-business headquartered in Singapore with market leadership positions in many of its businesses. Our success has enabled us to attract co-sponsors, strategic and long term investors, as well as world-class institutional investors, providing stability and business and financial strength to the Company.

Financials

Our Company reports our financial results quarterly and holds media and analyst meetings for these announcements. You can read about our reporting metrics, access our results webcasts, or check out our interactive financial analysis tool.

Olam is committed to observing high standards of corporate governance and harnessing these practices in keeping with its overarching philosophy of delivering sustainable, profitable growth and building capabilities with integrity. The Board constantly reviews the Company’s corporate governance practices and seeks to align its practices with the Code of Corporate Governance. Sustainability and stakeholder engagement remain our core focus.

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News from around the group

14^th Dec, 2018

Press release

Olam is named AGI best company employer

Ghana Olam Ghana, a leading supply chain manager of agri-products and one of Ghana’s biggest cocoa buying agencies, was named as the Best Company Employer in Ghana at the seventh Association of Ghana Industries (AGI) Industry and Quality Awards held in Accra at the weekend. The Association of Ghana Industries (AGI) is a voluntary business association with over 1,200 members, comprising small, medium and large scale manufacturing and services industries in agro-processing (food and beverages), agri-business, pharmaceuticals, electronics and electrical, telecommunications, information technology, utilities, service industries, transport, construction, textiles, garments and leather, banking and advertising. Established in 1958, the Association annually rewards and honours companies which achieve outstanding successes in various areas of industry and innovation in the year under review. The AGI’s purpose is to motivate its members to strive for excellence by demonstrating t

10^th Dec, 2018

News

Olam wins Best Loan in Singapore at The Asset’s annual Awards

Olam’s sustainability-linked club loan facility has won the Best Loan in Singapore in Asian financial publishing group The Asset’s annual Triple A Country Awards. Now in its 20th year, the Awards is a well-recognised accolade for the banking, finance, treasury and the capital markets sectors. They identify the best advisors as well as the best deals in the region, with the winners determined by The Asset's Board of Editors and the Asset Benchmark Research team. Previous winners for Southeast Asia have included DBS, Citi, Maybank Kim Eng, Ayala and Credit Suisse among others. Coverage of the Awards credited Olam’s deal as one of the standouts in Southeast Asia in 2018, as the region’s first sustainability-linked club loan where the interest rate on the facility will be reduced if pre-set improvement targets are achieved.

14^th Dec, 2018

Blog

Things we learned this year: How coffee can protect people

When I went on a trip in June hosted by our customer Nespresso to Indonesia, I knew I would learn a great deal about coffee and the lives of the farmers. What I didn’t appreciate was the very close connection in this region between coffee, forest and the safety of the community. Following the tragedy of the Tsunami in Palu in October, where again I learned of Olam Indonesian colleagues going out in search parties, this blog resonates more strongly still, particularly in terms of the resilience of the Indonesian people. An unexpected guardian – how coffee is protecting people by protecting the forest in Indonesia As you walk under the rustling canopy with sunlight dancing through leaves, you can sense, even if you can’t always hear, how the forest teems with life. As thousands of bronchiole-like branches reach for the sky you can understand why forests are called the ‘lungs of the earth’, breathing out so we can breathe in. But forests do even more to keep us alive; their roots can

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