- CEO
- Kon Sang Chang
- Full Time Employees
- 2,031
- Sector
- Distribution services
- Industry
- Wholesale distributors
- Address
- Kuala Lumpur Malaysia
- IPO Date
- Apr 28, 1991
- Business
- Harrisons Holdings (Malaysia) Berhad is an investment holding company that operates primarily as a sales, marketing, warehousing, and distribution conglomerate in Malaysia and Singapore. Tracing its origins to 1918 and incorporated in 1990, the company is headquartered in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, and is listed on the Main Market of Bursa Malaysia under the ticker HARISON. The group functions as a one-stop supply chain partner and distribution intermediary between multinational brand owners and local retail, commercial, and industrial channels.
The company organizes its business operations into five principal segments: Fast-Moving Consumer Goods; Building Materials and Engineering Products; Industrial and Agricultural Chemicals; Retail; and Shipping, Logistics, and Travel Services. Its core products and services encompass: Fast-Moving Consumer Goods (FMCG), including the warehousing, sales, and distribution of packaged food and beverages, personal care products, baby care items, household cleaning agents, and pet care products for global principals, including Nestlé brands (such as Milo, Nescafé, Maggi, and Kit-Kat), Kao brands (such as Bioré and Laurier), Reckitt Benckiser brands (such as Dettol and Shieldtox), and Vinda hygiene products; Wine, Spirits, and Beer, comprising the importation, marketing, and distribution of international wine labels from the United States, Europe, South America, South Africa, and Australia (including Ironstone, Vicente Gandia, Viña El Aromo, and Casal Thaulero) as well as commercial beer brands including Heineken, Tiger, and Guinness; Building Materials and Technical Products, consisting of structural steel bars, cement, roofing tiles, fiber cement boards, ceramic tiles, industrial paints, automotive batteries, bearings, lubricants, and mechanical equipment for construction contractors and hardware dealers; Industrial and Agricultural Chemicals, supplying industrial surfactants, textile chemicals, process chemicals, agrochemicals, and agricultural fertilizers to manufacturing plants and agricultural estates; Shipping and Logistics Services, offering freight forwarding, shipping agency operations for container liners and bulk tankers, cargo surveying, warehousing, cold storage, and inland trucking; Corporate and Leisure Travel Services, providing ticketing, hotel reservations, corporate travel management, and tour operations; and Retail Operations, managing confectionery retail chains, notably the Famous Amos chocolate chip cookie retail franchise in Singapore through Famous Food Company Pte Ltd, alongside uniform-price retail merchandising under the Komonoya brand.
Geographically, Harrisons operates an extensive distribution network across Peninsular Malaysia and East Malaysia (Sabah and Sarawak), maintaining over 25 branch offices, warehouses, and fulfillment centers serving more than 15,000 retail, wholesale, and commercial accounts. Key operating subsidiaries include Harrisons Peninsular Sdn Bhd, Harrisons Sabah Sdn Bhd, Harrisons Sarawak Sdn Bhd, Harrisons Marketing & Services Sdn Bhd, and Famous Food Company Pte Ltd.
In recent corporate and strategic developments, Harrisons Holdings executed a capital restructuring via a one-to-five share split of its ordinary shares to enhance trading liquidity and expand market participation on Bursa Malaysia, coupled with the establishment of a share buy-back authorization of up to 10% of its total issued share capital. Operationally, the group has accelerated the modernization of its supply chain infrastructure through investments in digital warehouse management systems, enterprise inventory tracking platforms, and route optimization technologies across its regional distribution hubs. Concurrently, the group continues to expand its agency portfolio by securing new distribution mandates across high-margin consumer products, specialty food, and beverage categories, while maintaining regular single-tier dividend distributions to shareholders.