From Past to Present
 
  • Founded under the name “Charoen Pokphand Feedmill Co., Ltd.” to produce and distribute animal feed in southern Thailand

  • Listed on the Stock Exchange of Thailand (SET) under the name of “CPF”

  • Became a public company limited and change its name to “Charoen Pokphand Feedmill Public Company Limited”

  • Share acquisition in the Charoen Pokphand Group’s agro-industrial public limited companies in Thailand to be under its management

  • Share acquisition in 9 agro-industrial and food companies of Charoen Pokphand Group. Under the new structure, resulted from the acquisition in 1998 and this time, CPF group has business operations throughout Thailand. Its business can be classified into 2 main businesses, namely livestock and aquaculture. Both businesses are fully integrated operations, from feed raw materials procurement, feed manufacture and distribution, animal breeding, animal farming, meat processing, and manufacturing of food products from meat
  • Renamed “Charoen Pokphand Foods Public Company Limited” to reflect the Company’s business structure and strategy to become a world-class food producer

  • Changed dividend payout policy to pay to sharehoIders 4 times a year

  • Split its par value of ordinary shares from THB 10 to THB 1 per share

  • Set up 5 new subsidiaries, which CPF directly and indirectly has 99.99% shareholding in these companies as follows:
    1. C.P. Aquaculture (Beihai) Co., Ltd., to operate aquatic business in the People’s Republic of China
    2. CP Food Product (Shanghai) Co., Ltd., to operate Thai food restaurants in the People’s Republic of China (changed name to CPF Food Trading Co., Ltd. and its business to import and distribution of processed meat and ready meals in 2009)
    3. CPF Europe S.A., to import and distribute the processed meat and food products in the European Union
    4. CPF IT Center Co., Ltd., to provide information technology services mainly to companies within the CPF Group
    5. CPF Training Center Co., Ltd., to provide training services mainly for employees within the CPF Group
  • Invested in CP Foods (UK) Limited, a joint venture investment with British businessmen, to distribute the Company’s products in the United Kingdom. CPF indirectly has 52% shareholdings in this company

  • Set up 4 new subsidiaries, which CPF directly and indirectly has 99.99% shareholding in these companies as follows:
    1. CP Foods West, Inc., to import and distribute food products in the US market
    2. Universal Foods and Marketing Co., Ltd., to distribute ready-to-eat food products both wholesale and retail, and to operate fast food kiosks in Thailand
    3. International Pet Foods Co., Ltd., to be a wholesaler and retailer of pet food products in Thailand
    4. C.P. Aquaculture (Hainan) Co., Ltd., to operate aquatic feed production and distribution and aquaculture farming in the People’s Republic of China
  • Entered into a joint venture with Aviagen, Inc., to establish Ross Breeders Siam Co., Ltd., to produce and distribute parent-stock chicks (broiler line) in Thailand. CPF indirectly has 49.99% shareholding in this company

  • 84.49% share acquisition, by its subsidiaries, in C.P. Standart Gida Sanayi Ve Ticaret A.S. (“CPS”), a company involved in a feed business and an integrated chicken business in the Republic of Turkey
  • Set up new subsidiary, i,e. CPF Tokyo Company Limited, to import and distribute processed meat and ready meal products in Japan. CPF indirectly has 99.99% shareholding in this company

  • Accept the aquatic animal processing business transfer from 3 subsidiaries, namely; Seafoods Enterprise Company Limited, Thai Prawn Culture Company Limited, and Klang Company Limited to be under CPF. The transfer business includes aquatic feed manufacturing, aquatic farming, and processing.
  • Set up 3 new companies as follows:
    1. Calibre Nature (M) Sdn Bhd, to operate an aquatic feed production and distribution and aquaculture farming and processing in Malaysia. CPF has 100% shareholding in this company
    2. CP-Yonekyu Co., Ltd., (changed name to CPF Premium Foods Co., Ltd. in 2009) to manufacture processed meat products. CPF has 80.50% shareholding in this company (At present, CPF has 99.99% shareholding)
    3. CPF Denmark A/S, to import meat and related products from CPF Group and other sources, and distribute them into Scandinavian and European markets. CPF indirectly has 52.00% shareholding in this company
  • Subscribed newly issued shares of Charoen Pokphand (India) Private Limited (“CP India”), resulting the increase in shareholding from 19.00% to 71.20% in CP India, thus making it the Company’s subsidiary
  • Combined the integrated food business among CPF’s subsidiaries in Bangkok Metropolitan area. The transferors are Bangkok Farm Company Limited, C.P. Food Industry Export Company Limited and C.P. Food Products Company Limited. The transferee is CPF Food Products Company Limited
  • Acquired all ordinary shares of Star Feedmills (m) Sdn. Bhd (“SFM”) resulting CPF indirectly has 100% shareholding in SFM, thus making it the Company’s subsidiary

  • Purchase business operation in connection with the manufacture and distribution of processed meat and food products from C.P. Interfood (Thailand) Company Limited
  • Dispose all of its investment in Lotus-CPF (PRC) Investment Co., Ltd.
  • Set up 2 new companies as follows:
    1. Charoen Pokphand Foods (Overseas) LLC., to operate animal feed and animal farming businesses in Russia. CPF indirectly has 99.99% shareholding in this company
    2. C.P. Laos Company Limited, to operate animal feed and animal farming businesses in Lao People’s Democratic Republic. CPF indirectly has 99.61% shareholding in this company
  • Acquired all ordinary shares of Asia Aquaculture (M) Sdn.Bhd. (“AA”) resulting CPF indirectly has 100% shareholding in AA, thus making it the Company’s subsidiary
  • Changed dividend policy to pay to shareholders 2 times a year.
  • Set up 2 new companies as follows:
    1. C.P. Aquaculture (Dongfang) Co., Ltd. to run shrimp hatchery business in the People Republic of China. CPF directly has shareholdings of 100.00% in this company.
    2. Charoen Pokphand Foods Philippines Corporation to run shrimp hatchery in Philippines. CPF directly has shareholdings of 100.00% in this company.
  • Acquired additional stakes in C.P. Standart Gida Sanayi ve Ticaret A.S. (“CPS”) by subsidiaries, resulted in the increase of shareholding from 92.64% to 100.00% in CPS.
  • Repurchased the Company’s shares for financial management.

  • Acquired additional stakes in Charoen Pokphand (India) Private Limited (“CPI”), resulted in the increase of shareholding from 71.20% to 99.99% in CPI.
  • Purchased of the investment in 5 companies that are direct and/or indirect shareholders of Charoen Pokphand Enterprise (Taiwan) Co., Ltd. (“CPE”) which is a listed company in Stock Exchange of Taiwan by a subsidiary. CPF indirectly has shareholdings of 32.41% in CPE.
  • C.P. Vietnam Livestock Corporation (“CPVL”) merged with Charoen Pokphand Vietnam Corporation (“CPV”) by way of issuing new common shares to CPV’s shareholders for assuming CPV’s assets and liabilities. The transaction resulted in the decrease of CPF shareholding in CPVL from 40.00% to 29.18% but not effect on CPF’s interest in CPVL.