- CEO
- Franky Oesman Widjaja
- Full Time Employees
- 99,000
- Sector
- Process industries
- Industry
- Agricultural commodities/Milling
- Address
- No. 06-00 Golden Agri Plaza Singapore CE Singapore 118535
- IPO Date
- Jul 9, 1999
- Business
- Golden Agri-Resources Ltd (GAR; SGX: E5H) is an investment holding company and one of Asia's leading vertically integrated palm oil producers, engaged in the cultivation and harvesting of oil palm trees across approximately 536,000 hectares of plantations primarily in Indonesia; processing of fresh fruit bunches into crude palm oil, palm kernel oil, and palm kernel; refining and fractionation into value-added products including refined edible oils such as cooking oil and palm olein, margarines, shortenings, specialty fats, lauric fats, and snacks and instant noodles; production of oleochemicals, biodiesel, and palm-based bioenergy; as well as merchandising, trading, shipping, and logistics of palm, lauric, and other vegetable oils like sunflower, rice bran, mustard, groundnut, soybean, and coconut oils to over 110 countries worldwide including Singapore, India, Pakistan, China, the United States, Europe, the Middle East, Canada, and Mexico. The company operates through two main segments, Plantations and Palm Oil Mills for upstream activities and Palm, Laurics and Others for downstream processing and merchandising; targets business-to-business and consumer markets with brands and bulk products; and maintains additional operations in IT consultancy, records management, construction services, sugar storage, seed production, forestry, and port facilities. Founded in 1996 by the Widjaja family as part of the Sinar Mas group and headquartered at Golden Agri Plaza in Singapore, GAR listed on the Singapore Exchange in 1999 and employs over 100,000 people while emphasizing sustainable practices through R&D and smallholder farmer partnerships. In recent developments, GAR forged a multi-year strategic partnership in January 2024 with Verborg Group to exclusively supply over one million tons of tropical oils including crude palm oil, crude palm kernel oil, and coconut oil to its new Netherlands refinery; entered a long-term alliance in February 2025 with ED&F Man Liquid Products-North America and Westway Feed Products to expand sustainable palm-based animal feed supplements under the GoNutri brand—such as GoNutri Energy for dairy milk enhancement and GoNutri Protect for swine and poultry gut health—across the USA, Canada, and Mexico; joined the World Business Council for Sustainable Development in early 2024 to advance sustainable agriculture; and reported record nine-month revenue of US$9.53 billion in 2025, up 21% year-on-year, alongside inauguration of a new office in Mexico to support Latin American expansion.