Golden Hope
Overview
Plantation
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s company in Malaysia.
In 1905 Harrison and Crosfield
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, a British
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tea and coffee trading company, purchased several small estates in Malaysia for £50,000 and amalgamated them to form the Golden Hope Rubber Estate.
In 1982 Harrison and Crosfield sold three large plantation groups - Golden Hope, Pataling, and London Asiatic - to Malaysian concerns for £146 million.
The business was renamed GHPB in 1990 after Pemodalan Nasional Berhad
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took majority equity of the company.
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