industry plantation property manufacturing & others founded 1821 defunct 2007 headquarters kuala lumpur malaysia key people tan sri dato dr. wan mohd . zahid mohd noordin chairman dato abd wahab maskan group chief executive revenue 2.406 billion myr 2006 0.43 billion myr number of employees 46 759 website www.guthrie.com.my guthrie group limited malay kumpulan guthrie berhad ; myx 3131 delisted was a malaysian company that primarily dealt with plantations . it merged with three other plantation groups to form the world s largest plantation company with the name of sime darby berhad . guthrie was founded in singapore in 1821 by alexander guthrie as the first british trading company in southeast asia . guthrie introduced rubber and oil palm in malaysia in 1896 and 1924 respectively . alexander guthrie was born in the parish of menmuir in angus scotland in 1796 son of david guthrie of burnside and his wife margaret guthrie n e guthrie . he went to singapore in 1821 to set up a trading branch of thomas talbot harrington and company . guthrie parted company with harrington in 1823 and his company was renamed guthrie and company in 1833 . he retired in 1847 handing the firm over to his nephew james guthrie and retired to london where he died unmarried in 165 . james guthrie was born in tannadice in angus in 1814 son of alexander s brother david and his wife katharine grant . james arrived in singapore in 1829 and became a partner in 1837 . he married in 1846 susan scott a distant cousin and had two daughters and a son before susan s death in singapore in 1853 . james left singapore in 1856 and returned to britain . he retired from the firm in 1876 and died in 1900 . other partners included james nephew by marriage john james greenshields whose mother margaret lyall scott was the sister of susan scott . greenshields was born in liverpool in 1823 and died there in 1873 . another was james guthrie s brother in law thomas scott born in dun angus in 1832 and died in angus in 1902 who became a partner in 1857 and senior partner in 1867 . 1 contents 1 acquisition by malaysia 2 merger with sime darby 3 current activities 4 see also 5 references acquisition by malaysia edit in 1981 the group became a wholly malaysian owned company after mahathir mohamad engineered a raid to take over the group at the london stock exchange . the takeover allowed malaysia to return ownership of some 200 000 acres 800 km of agricultural land back to malaysians . guthrie group was made a public company in 1987 and was subsequently listed on the kuala lumpur stock exchange klse in 1989 in what was then the largest public issue in malaysia . merger with sime darby edit with the government investment company pemodalan nasional berhad being the largest single shareholder the government merged guthrie with sime darby and golden hope plantation to form a new entity named synergy drive later renamed sime darby . all guthrie shares were de listed on 1 november 2007 and re listed on 30 november 2007 . as of november 2007 sime darby is the largest company in malaysia by market capitalisation and also the largest plantation operator in the world with a land bank of over 540 000 hectares 2 current activities edit the group s main activities are plantation and property management . the official trading name of guthrie is kumpulan guthrie berhad . guthrie group has plantation estates in peninsular malaysia and sabah and northern sumatra and west kalimantan borneo in indonesia . the group is also engaged in real estate with the formation of guthrie properties in 1994 and manufacturing . see also edit tanjong pagar dock company references edit http infopedia.nl.sg articles sip 1238 2008 12 12.html sime darby holds the crown on bursa retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title guthrie company & oldid 742515663 categories companies established in 1821companies of malaysiacompanies disestablished in 2007palm oil production in malaysiahidden categories engvarb from february 2015use dmy dates from february 2015articles containing malay language text navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate to wikipediawikipedia store interaction helpabout wikipediacommunity portalrecent changescontact page tools what links hererelated changesupload filespecial pagespermanent linkpage informationwikidata itemcite this page print export create a bookdownload as pdfprintable version languages bahasa melayu edit links this page was last modified on 4 october 2016 at 05 02 . text is available under the creative commons attribution sharealike license ; 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