Kah Motor Company Sdn Berhad is the distributor for Honda vehicles in Singapore and Brunei and operates eight out of 93 of the Honda dealerships in Peninsular Malaysia and another dealership in Sabah. Kah Classic Auto Sdn Bhd currently a dealer of Mitsubishi Motor Malaysia Sdn Bhd, providing sales and services of Mitsubishi branded vehicles through the only outlet at Jalan Ipoh. Kah Bintang Auto Sdn Bhd commenced the used car sales business in June 2019. The Company has further diversified into online search portal focusing on automotive which went live on 30 November 2020 by starting with onboarding of participants followed with marketing and advertisements to the public from January 2021.

Furthermore, the automotive manufacturing segment leverages on strong collaboration with our technical partners to provide specialised original automotive parts to both Original Equipment Manufacturer (OEM) and Replacement Equipment Manufacturer (REM) markets.

The plastic segment is headed by its 60% subsidiary, Teck See Plastic Sdn Bhd, one of the oldest auto parts manufacturing companies in Malaysia. The plastic segment is a “one-stop centre” which provides fully integrated services from contract research and development, design, prototyping, moulds manufacturing, material compounding, plastic injection, spray painting to final products assembly. It has in year 1991 established a Joint Venture with Hicom Holdings to support the national car project Proton and has since tied up with Kasai Kogyo Co, Ltd. of Japan, a tier one global supplier of interior trim modules for car manufacturers in Malaysia, Thailand and Indonesia.

The segment currently owns 10 hotels, four of which are in Australia, two in New Zealand and one each in Malaysia, Singapore, Thailand and United Kingdom. The Group operates all hotels and resorts on its own with the exception of Somerset Park Suanplu located at Thailand (managed by The Ascott Limited) and Thistle Holborn The Kingsley Hotel located in United Kingdom (managed by Guoman). The portfolio also includes Bayview International Sdn Bhd which oversees operations, marketing and promotion activities for Bayview hotels and resorts worldwide.

One of the hotels located at Melbourne has been significant impacted from the travel restriction imposed due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Therefore, the management proposed the sale of the hotel as a going concern while maintains another hotel on the same road. The segment will continue to acquire excellent properties to expand its hospitality operations and is keen to expand its business globally when the opportunity arises.

The segment’s operations in Indonesia currently comprises three matured plantations, while remaining five under development with 37,550 Ha* total planted area combined and three Crude Palm Oil (CPO) Mills in Bangka Island. The five companies are under development with over 52,377 Ha land bank in South Sumatra. To date, over 24,560 Ha of the concession area in South Sumatra has been acquired, over 12,621 Ha has been planted and the harvesting area is now over 8,653 Ha. With that, the segment plans to plant about 1,000 to 2,000 hectares annually. It has generated a healthy cash pile over the years and is still expanding. A fourth CPO Mill, the first for South Sumatra was commissioned in 4th quarter of 2020. The segment has a planted area of 4,801 Ha in Malaysia.

* Ha = hectares

The segment comprises mainly investment in subsidiaries and other investments for recurring income.

A significant activity in this business segment is in the supply of building materials. Key activities involved included the trading of all brands of cements, manufactured of steel wire, supplying of ready mixed concrete and quarry products to the property and construction industry.

However, in 1994, Ultra Green Sdn Bhd acquired a concession from the Melaka state government to reclaim a total of 1,125 acres in Klebang, Melaka. The Group has reclaimed 985 acres of sea off the Melaka coastline out of the concession area. Reclamation works are ongoing for the remainder of the concession area, which will provide valuable land bank for the Group.

The segment has further diversified its activities into real estate in Australia for recurrent income and capital appreciation with further acquisition of 2 commercial properties which have fully tenanted. In addition, the development project at Burwood has obtained its occupation permit on 9 April 2019 and the Company has leased out the commercial unit and serviced apartments.

The healthcare segment is principally involved in the operations of a medical centre, a nursing college and an integrated lifestyle retail pharmacy. This segment was initiated concurrently with the acquisition of a nursing college in Melaka in April 2011 followed by the construction of the medical hub in August 2012 on the OHB Group’s reclaimed land in Klebang, Melaka, a mere 10 minutes from the heart of Melaka Heritage City. Officially launched on 31 January 2015, Oriental Melaka Straits Medical Centre (OMSMC) is the flagship hospital for the Group’s healthcare segment. The hospital has been growing constantly since its inception to become a leading tertiary hospital in Melaka.

This segment opened its first lifestyle retail pharmacy outlet in Melaka in the end of March 2020 and targets to open two retail pharmacy outlets in year 2021. The setting-up of these retail pharmacies will produce a synergistic effect with the hospital in addition to offer a variety of extended healthcare services which include comprehensive product segmentation to meet the local community’s needs. In March 2021, we have also incorporated a wholly owned subsidiary named Oriental Medical (Segamat) Sdn Bhd, through our direct 51% owned subsidiary, Melaka Straits Medical Centre Sdn Bhd. The step was taken to further expand on our segment’s operations, in which the principal activity of the said subsidiary entails operating a medical centre with the provision of related healthcare services.