Daejan Holdings
Encyclopedia
Daejan Holdings is a leading British
-based property business. It is headquartered in London
and is a constituent of the FTSE 250 Index
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and coffee
plantations in the Dutch East Indies
. In 1949 an insurrection led to the destruction or sale of its plantations. In 1957 Osias Freshwater reversed his property business into the company and this is now its sole activity.
and USA - of the same activity - investment properties. As at 31 March 2010 its portfolio was valued at £1.2bn.
United Kingdom
The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern IrelandIn the United Kingdom and Dependencies, other languages have been officially recognised as legitimate autochthonous languages under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages...
-based property business. It is headquartered in London
London
London is the capital city of :England and the :United Kingdom, the largest metropolitan area in the United Kingdom, and the largest urban zone in the European Union by most measures. Located on the River Thames, London has been a major settlement for two millennia, its history going back to its...
and is a constituent of the FTSE 250 Index
FTSE 250 Index
The FTSE 250 Index is a capitalisation-weighted index consisting of the 101st to the 350th largest companies on the London Stock Exchange. Promotions to and demotions from the index take place quarterly in March, June, September and December...
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History
The Company was formed in 1935 as Daejan Samoedra Estates Ltd to acquire rubberRubber
Natural rubber, also called India rubber or caoutchouc, is an elastomer that was originally derived from latex, a milky colloid produced by some plants. The plants would be ‘tapped’, that is, an incision made into the bark of the tree and the sticky, milk colored latex sap collected and refined...
and coffee
Coffee
Coffee is a brewed beverage with a dark,init brooo acidic flavor prepared from the roasted seeds of the coffee plant, colloquially called coffee beans. The beans are found in coffee cherries, which grow on trees cultivated in over 70 countries, primarily in equatorial Latin America, Southeast Asia,...
plantations in the Dutch East Indies
Dutch East Indies
The Dutch East Indies was a Dutch colony that became modern Indonesia following World War II. It was formed from the nationalised colonies of the Dutch East India Company, which came under the administration of the Netherlands government in 1800....
. In 1949 an insurrection led to the destruction or sale of its plantations. In 1957 Osias Freshwater reversed his property business into the company and this is now its sole activity.
Operations
The Group is organised into two geographic segments - UKUnited Kingdom
The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern IrelandIn the United Kingdom and Dependencies, other languages have been officially recognised as legitimate autochthonous languages under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages...
and USA - of the same activity - investment properties. As at 31 March 2010 its portfolio was valued at £1.2bn.