IN 1983, I was back in Kluang. But I was not sure that I was completely welcome. In the Pamol head office on the estate, I had an office and a secretary. Joe Walton, the chairman and managing director, ...
HERE, I will have to break from my stories and write about a recent piece of news. I had read in the press about the change of name and the new logo for the company that was once called Sime Darby Plantations. ...
IN late 1982, I visited Kolombangara island to see the timber operations of Lever Pacific Timber headed by a person around 10 years older than me, called Dennis Gilbert.
I WILL now take you around Banika and describe a typical day on the island. It is nestled in the Russell Islands group in the Central Province of Solomon Islands. From the office, you can see the undisturbed ...
I ARRIVED in the Solomon Islands in 1981 and was met by the outgoing managing director, Jim Broom. With my wife Maznah and toddler Anwar, I landed on the airstrip on the island of Banika. Facing everything ...
THERE were two things I had to do before I left Sabah in 1981. The first was to attend a company general management course at the training college of Unilever Plc in Surrey, England. The college was set ...
DURING my stay in Sabah from 1979 to 1981, I noted two big factors, the first of which was the development through the energetic efforts of Datuk Harris Salleh, who was chief minister.
IN an earlier article, I mentioned Joe Walton, the managing director of Unilever’s Plantation in Malaysia, and he had expressed hopes of finding new levels of productivity through the work of the research ...