- CEO
- Juan Peng Tan
- Sector
- Consumer non-durables
- Industry
- Food: specialty/candy
- Address
- Seri Kembangan Malaysia
- IPO Date
- Feb 29, 1996
- Business
- Khee San Berhad is a Malaysia-based investment holding company primarily engaged in the manufacturing, marketing, and distribution of confectionery and snack food products. Founded in 1952 and headquartered in Seri Kembangan, Selangor, Malaysia, the company operates primarily through its wholly owned operating subsidiary, Khee San Food Industries Sdn. Bhd. The company offers a diverse confectionery portfolio comprising fruit-flavoured chewy candies, milk chews, and soft chews under its flagship Fruit Plus and Torrone brands; hard boiled candies, medicated cough drops, pastilles, and herbal lozenges under the Victory and Richmond brands; chocolate-coated, cream-filled, and crispy wafer bars under the Tip Top brand; as well as dextrose tablet candies, mints, and centre-filled hard candies. Khee San distributes its products through major supermarket chains, hypermarkets, wholesalers, and convenience retailers across Malaysia, while exporting to international markets across the Asia-Pacific region, Greater China, Southeast Asia, and the Middle East. In recent developments, the company has undertaken a comprehensive financial regularisation plan to address its Practice Note 17 (PN17) status on Bursa Malaysia, implementing capital reorganisations, a renounceable rights issue with warrants, schemes of arrangement for creditor debt settlement, and strategic equity fundraisings to restore financial stability. Operationally, the company has focused on factory automation upgrades across its manufacturing plant, capacity expansion for its high-margin chewy candy lines, and broader export market development.