- CEO
- Franky Oesman Widjaja
- Full Time Employees
- 99,000
- Sector
- Consumer Defensive
- Industry
- Agricultural Farm Products
- Address
- No. 06-00 Golden Agri Plaza Singapore CE Singapore 118535
- IPO Date
- Aug 3, 2012
- Business
- Golden Agri-Resources Ltd Golden Agri-Resources Ltd (GARPY) operates as a fully integrated seed-to-shelf palm oil agribusiness focused on the sustainable cultivation, harvesting, processing, refining, and merchandising of palm-based and complementary vegetable oil products worldwide. The company produces crude palm oil (CPO), palm kernel oil, refined bleached deodorized (RBD) olein, RBD palm oil, RBD stearin, cooking oils, margarine, shortening, specialty fats, oleochemicals, biodiesel, and lauric fats for consumer, industrial, food, agronomy, and bioenergy applications; it also offers soybean-based products in China, sunflower-based products in India, sugar products, instant noodles under the Hua Feng brand, Freedom sunflower oil, and Filma cooking oil. GAR manages approximately 536,000 hectares of oil palm plantations, including smallholder farms, primarily in Indonesia, with downstream refining facilities and complementary operations across 14 countries, including China, India, Pakistan, the United States, Europe, and the Middle East; products reach over 110 countries via robust shipping, logistics, distribution, and branding networks. Founded in 1996 and headquartered at Golden Agri Plaza in Singapore, the company listed on the Singapore Exchange in 1999 and employs around 100,100 people, producing 2.72 million tonnes of CPO in 2024 while achieving 99% traceability to plantation and conserving 79,900 hectares. Recent developments include a 2024 strategic multi-year partnership with Verborg Group designating GAR as exclusive supplier of over one million tons of tropical oils such as CPO, crude palm kernel oil, and coconut oil to its new Netherlands refinery; a February 2025 long-term alliance with ED&F Man Liquid Products-North America and Westway Feed Products to expand GoNutri branded palm-based animal feed supplements like GoNutri Energy for dairy milk production and GoNutri Protect for swine and poultry gut health in the Americas; and membership in the World Business Council for Sustainable Development in early 2024 to advance sustainable agriculture initiatives. Subsidiaries include PT SMART Tbk for Indonesian operations, PT Dami Mas Sejahtera for DxP seed production, Golden Agri-Resources Europe BV, and various China-based entities, underscoring GAR's vertically integrated model driven by R&D, innovation, and the GAR Social and Environmental Policy.