- Business
- Natural Cool Holdings Limited, an investment holding company listed on the Singapore Exchange Catalist board, engages primarily in air-conditioning and engineering services; manufacturing and trading of paints and coatings under the Cougar brand, including enamel, epoxy, and polyurethane coatings as well as solvents; food and beverages operations encompassing the manufacture, wholesale, distribution, and retail of cooked snack foods such as dim sum, pumpkin cakes, and traditional Chinese dumplings, alongside restaurant and stall management including Abang Recipes; and technology solutions involving installation of building automated systems for remote monitoring, communications engineering, and IoT services through its subsidiary iFocus Pte Ltd. The company, founded in 1989 and headquartered at 87 Defu Lane 10, Singapore 539219, operates across these segments in Singapore with regional presence in China, India, Cambodia, and Vietnam, serving residential households, commercial sectors including factories, offices, condominiums, schools, hospitals, and malls, as well as industrial and retail customers via trading of air-conditioning units, spare parts, components, and tools from brands like Mitsubishi Electric, Daikin, and Panasonic. Its subsidiaries include Natural Cool Airconditioning & Engineering Pte Ltd and SFB Holdings Pte Ltd, supporting comprehensive offerings in mechanical ventilation, plumbing, sanitary works, fire protection, facilities management, and critical environment solutions. In recent developments, Natural Cool Holdings completed the acquisition of the remaining 49% stake in iFocus Pte Ltd in August 2025 for $2.94 million across two tranches, achieving full ownership of the IoT and communications engineering firm first partially acquired in 2022, to consolidate earnings and leverage synergies in technology operations; earlier milestones include property acquisitions such as 87 Defu Lane 10 in 2017 for expanded office and warehouse capacity and diversification into paints via Loh & Sons Paint Co in 2015 and food and beverages for new revenue streams.