ASEAN Cooperatives Personnel & Leaders visit Golden Corporation Sdn Bhd

Thursday, March 29th 2012

ASEAN Cooperatives Personnel & Leaders visits Golden Corporation Sdn Bhd

ASEAN Cooperatives Personnel & Leaders from Brunei, Vietnam, Laos, Philippines, Malaysia and Thailand, visited Golden Corporation Sdn Bhd, a leading quality seafood producer, at its processing plant in Kampong Serambangun Tutong.

Also present was the higher management from BINA, MIPR, Agriculture and Fisheries Department.

Dubbed The Multi-Purpose Marine Resources Processing and Business Centre, the facility is a result of collaboration between Semaun Marine Resources Sdn Bhd and foreign direct investor Golden Corporation Sdn Bhd.

The Multi-Purpose Marine Resources Processing and Business Centre commenced operations in June 2012 and pride itself as the only fully-integrated producer of seafood products in the Sultanate. It is also the first company to produce organic feed and breed organic blue shrimp.

The ASEAN Cooperatives Personnel & Leaders was welcomed on arrival and taken on a first-hand tour of the factory by the company’s Managing Director, Mr. Richard Chuang Hsi Shan and other staff of the company.

There, the ASEAN Cooperatives Personnel & Leaders was briefed on the company’s achievement, the daily operation and the expansion plan of Golden Corporation Sdn Bhd.

The visit was initiated by Fisheries Department and it was headed by Tuan Mulyadi bin Haji Mohammad Ali - Senior Agriculture Officer (Department of Agriculture & Agrifood MIRP)

Golden Corporation Sdn Bhd’s principal business is in aquaculture and seafood processing. It includes the farming, harvesting and processing of fish and shrimp.

By the third quarter of this year, the company plans to venture into value-added retail seafood products/snacks for the mass market. The company also provides assistance and technical know-how to local shrimp and fish aqua-farmers. At present, the company caters to the domestic and

Asian regional market; and are in the process of finalizing exports to both the US and EU market.