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| Carson arrives in
Ceylon. |
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1857 |
|
| The Company obtains
the Agency of London Assurance. |
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1861 |
|
| Sabonadiere and Company
declares bankruptcy with the decline of the coffee industry.
H. Cumberbatch resurrects the interests of the Company under
the name Cumberbatch & Company, which goes on to become
one of the most recognised estate agency houses in the Island. |
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1884 |
| |
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| Carson & Company
acquires the agencies for the Nippon Yusen and the White Star
Line of steamers. |
|
1897 |
|
| The Grand Central
Ceylon Rubber Estates belonging to Carson & Company is floated
on the London Stock Exchange with an authorised capital of 1.5
million sterling pounds, making it the largest rubber concern
in Sri Lanka. |
|
1910 |
|
| The merger between
Carson & Company Limited and Cumberbatch & Company,
results in the name of the Company being changed to Carson Cumberbatch PLC (CCCL). |
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1947 |
|
| Carsons made a strategic decision to shift from rubber plantations to oil palm cultivation in Malaysia |
|
1969 |
|
| CCCL moves into a
new office complex at Vauxhall Lane, Colombo 2. |
|
1972 |
|
| The Government commences
the nationalisation of estates, and CCCL’s office complex
and a section of its stores at Vauxhall Lane are acquired. CCCL
moves back to the Australia Building in York Street, Fort. |
|
1976 |
| |
|
| Sri Krishna Corporation
Limited, a 75 year old company, which is a leading manufacturing
and exporting house in Sri Lanka, acquires a controlling interest
in Carson Cumberbatch PLC. |
|
1988 |
| |
|
| CCCL enters into
a joint venture with Unit Trust of India, Bank of Ceylon and
HSBC Asset Management Company to set up one of Sri Lanka's pioneering
fund management companies. |
|
1991 |
|
| Carsons Management Services (Private) Limited is established to provide management
services to all the companies of the Group. |
|
1993 |
|
| Carsons expands its
interest in oil palm plantations - the Indonesian Plantation
project under P.T. Agro Indomas commences, increasing the overseas
oil palm plantations area under cultivation from 1,800 hectares
to 18,000 hectares. |
|
1998 |
|
| The first mill commenced operations in PT Agro Indomas to process palm fruits to crude palm oil with a milling capacity of 297,000MT per annum. |
|
2000 |
| |
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|
| Goodhope Asia Holdings Ltd was incorporated in Singapore as the holding company of the plantations sector to consolidate and regionalize the sector's asset base. |
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2008 |
|
| Goodhope acquires three processing plants with operations in Malaysia and India that specializes in refining and specialist fats manufacturing of palm oil products, and thereby moves to globalize its business through value chain integration, evolving into the plantations, oils and fats sector. |
|
2011 |
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| 1860 |
|
Carson opens his first office in
Baillie Street in Colombo to import cotton goods. |
|
| 1881 |
|
H. Cumberbatch, a coffee planter,
joins Sabonadiere and Company, an organisation that was foremost
among the estate agencies of that period and dealt with the
produce of 113 plantations. |
|
| 1891 |
|
Carson & Company obtains the
agency in Ceylon for the Bibby Line of Steamers. |
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| 1902 |
|
Carson & Company moves to Australia
Building in York Street, Fort. |
|
| 1913 |
|
Carson & Company is converted
into a limited liability company. |
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| 1963 |
|
Leechman & Company Limited,
which was incorporated in 1953, becomes a subsidiary of CCCL. |
|
| 1976 |
|
CCCL diversifies into hotels, real
estate and investments. The Group builds two hotels - Giritale
Hotel and Moonlight Beach Hotel and takes over the management
of Pegasus Reef Hotel. |
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| 1986 |
|
CCCL constructs its own office
premises at 67, Dharmapala Mawatha, Colombo 7. |
|
| 1990 |
|
CCCL demolishes the building occupied
by the Company’s airline and travel sectors on Janadhipathi
Mawatha to build a new office complex, Equity Two. |
|
| 1992 |
|
CCCL secures the management contract
for Elpitiya Plantations, which the Company had managed until
privatisation. |
|
| 1995 |
|
Carsons expands its interest in oil palm plantations into Indonesia. A plantation project under PT Agro Indomas commences in Central Kalimantan, increasing the overseas oil palm plantations land bank from 1,800 hectares to 18,000 hectares |
|
| 1997 |
|
1997 A state-of-the-art brewery
at Biyagama is commissioned, which will more than double the
Group’s brewing capacity.
CCCL takes over the management of three investment holding companies
- the Ceylon Guardian Investment Trust Limited, the Ceylon Investment
Trust Limited and the Rubber Investment Trust Limited |
|
| 1999 |
|
The Group divests its stake in
Moonlight Beach Hotel. |
|
| 2006 |
|
Sale of Bukit Darah oil palm estate in Malaysia in order to re-invest funds in Indonesia to acquire a new plantation project of 20,000 hectares under PT Agro Bukit in Central Kalimantan.
|
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| 2010 |
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- A Kernel Crushing Plant was commissioned in PT Agro Bukit with a crushing capacity of 108,000MT per annum
- Commissioned a Bulking Station in Bagendang Port in Sampit, Indonesia with a storage capacity of 10,500MT
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| 2014 |
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Acquisition of Millers Brewery
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