The Edge Billion Dollar Club

SINGAPORE (Sept 24): In 2012, a billboard advertisement in Raffles Place for Bumitama Agri carried an eye-catching slogan: “Mum was wrong. Slow and steady doesn’t win the race.” The oil palm grower was listed on the Singapore Exchange that year, pro

SINGAPORE (Sept 24): Ching Chiat Kwong, executive chairman and CEO of Oxley Holdings was in a jovial mood when journalists from The Edge Singapore caught up with him on a rainy Friday evening recently. From a larger-than-average figure, Ching has slimmed

SINGAPORE (Nov 4): The sector is a hodgepodge of companies involved in vastly different businesses, the result of combining three Singapore Exchange industry classifications with too few billion-dollar companies to stand on their own. A comparison of thei

This story first appeared in the The Edge Singapore (week of Oct 24)

SINGAPORE (Nov 2): Confidence in China-based companies listed on the Singapore Exchange has suffered considerably over the past decade because of a string of corporate governance scandals. Today, a handful of relatively large S-chips are beginning to dist

SINGAPORE (Nov 1): The metrics that The Edge Singapore used to compare the real estate investment trusts that qualify for the Billion Dollar Club are somewhat different from those we used for ordinary companies. Instead of looking at pre-tax profit growth

SINGAPORE (Nov 1): Deft risk-taking by a handful of midsized developers over the three years to 2015 made them the best performers in terms of the financial metrics by which the Billion Dollar Club companies are measured.

SINGAPORE (Oct 27): When Thai billionaire Charoen Sirivadhanabhakdi launched his bid for Fraser and Neave (F&N) in 2012, he might not have realised how difficult the process of gaining control of the then property and beverage group would be.

SINGAPORE (Oct 25): Home-grown supermarket chain operator Sheng Siong Group is not exactly a fast-growing company. Yet, against a backdrop of soft economic growth and volatile costs, its resilience has made it something of a star performer.