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

  • Expanded into livestock farming with the objective of moving towards further integration
  • Listed on the Stock Exchange of Thailand (SET) under the name of “CPF”

  • Entered the aquaculture business (shrimp feed manufacturing and distribution, shrimp farming and shrimp processing for export)

  • 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 a new subsidiary, Aqua Beauty, Inc., to be as an importer and a distribution arm for seafood products in the US market

  • Set up 6 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
    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, formerly known as Fusion Foods 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. Aqua - Agri Foods International, 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
  • Increased shareholding from 18.00% to 99.99% in Chanthaburi Aquaculture Farm Co., Ltd., which operates shrimp farming business in Thailand
  • Increased shareholding from 19.20% to 31.70% in C.P. Aquaculture (India) Private Limited, which is involved in shrimp feed production and distribution and the operation of shrimp hatchery in India
  • 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 2 new subsidiaries as follows:
    1. 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
    2. Joint venture with Shrimp Improvement Systems, L.L.C. to set up Shrimp Improvement System (Thailand) Company Limited to operate shrimp breeding business in Thailand. CPF has 51.00% shareholding in this company
  • At the Extraordinary Shareholders’ Meeting No. 1/2004, the shareholders resolved to transfer the aquatic animal processing business of 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. The transfer completed in the first quarter of 2005

  • 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., to manufacture processed meat products. CPF has 80.50% shareholding in this company
    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
  • Disposed ordinary shares of Siam Makro Public Company Limited making its shareholding decreased from 8.30% to 1.01%
  • 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
  • At the Extraordinary Shareholders’ Meeting No. 1/2005, the shareholders resolved a subsidiary to purchase business operation in connection with the manufacture and distribution of processed meat and food products from C.P. Interfood (Thailand) Company Limited

  • At the Annual Shareholders’ Meeting No. 1/2006, the shareholders resolved a subsidiary to sell all of its investment in Lotus-CPF (PRC) Investment Co., Ltd. The transaction was complete in May 2006
  • 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
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