Press Releases and Public Updates

7 February 2020

Sime Darby Plantation’s Response to Reuters’ article ‘Malaysian palm oil bosses urge action against ‘toxic’ environment groups’

With reference to an article from Reuters dated 4 February 2020 entitled ‘Malaysian palm oil bosses urge action against 'toxic' environment groups’, Sime Darby Plantation Berhad (SDP) would like to clarify that the statement highlighted in the report does not represent SDP’s approach to our NGO stakeholders.
6 February 2020

Sime Darby Plantation Berhad Large debt refinancing is credit positive

Sime Darby Plantation Berhad (SDP, Baa1 negative) announced that it had refinanced around MYR3.9 billion of credit facilities in December 2019, or around 49% of its total reported debt.
30 January 2020

Sime Darby Plantation Refinanced RM3.9 billion Credit Facilities in Malaysia and Indonesia on Improved Terms

Sime Darby Plantation Berhad (SDP) is pleased to announce that the Group had in December 2019 completed the refinancing of its credit facilities worth approximately RM3.9 billion on marginally improved terms.
16 January 2020

Sime Darby Plantation Completes the Divestment of its Liberia Operations

The world’s first publicly available human-elephant conflict (HEC) resolution mechanism is set to be developed, thanks to the partnership between academia and the public and private sectors.
16 December 2019

MARC Affirms Ratings on Sime Darby Plantation

MARC has affirmed Sime Darby Plantation Berhad’s (SD Plantation) corporate credit rating at AAA, and its Perpetual Subordinated Sukuk Programme (Perpetual Sukuk) of up to RM3.0 billion at AAIS.
6 December 2019

Sime Darby Plantation Proposed Divestment of Liberia Operations

Sime Darby Plantation Berhad (SDP) would like to confirm that an outright divestment of SDP’s 100% equity stake in Sime Darby Plantation Liberia Inc.
29 November 2019

Sime Darby Plantation Registers a Nine-Month Net Loss of RM142 million due to an Impairment Charge of RM256 million following the Planned Exit from its Liberian Operations

For the nine months ended 30 September 2019, Sime Darby Plantation (SD Plantation) Group reported a net profit of RM167 million from its continuing operations against net profit of RM556 million in the corresponding period of the previous year.
29 November 2019

Sime Darby Plantation continues successful run at the Sustainable Business Awards Malaysia 2019 and the Europa Awards for Sustainability for Second Consecutive Year

Sime Darby Plantation's (SDP) continuing journey to produce palm oil in a responsible and sustainable manner was recognised by two different organisations for the second consecutive year.
5 November 2019

Letter in Response to Greenpeace on Upcoming Haze Report

Please be informed that as at 25 June 2019, PT MAS has ceased to be a subsidiary of SDP as we have effectively disposed our interest in the company to PT Inti Nusa Sejahtera.
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