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Indofood Sukses Makmur, one of Indonesia's leading food manufacturing companies, plans to build a new factory for the production of flour to increase capacity and sales of its Bogasari unit. Bogasari is the company's integrated flour milling unit. Franciscus Welirang, Director of Indofood Sukses Makmur, said the unit's flour mills are currently producing close to their maximum capacity, hence production capacity expansion is needed.
Instant noodles are an important food product in Indonesia as they are highly popular among the giant population. Indomie, an instant noodle brand produced by Indofood Sukses Makmur, is the most famous one. In fact, it is the most popular brand in Indonesia (not only of all instant noodle brands, but of all brands in Indonesia). Indofood Sukses Makmur said its Indomie sales rose ahead of Idul Fitri (the celebrations that mark the end of the Ramadan month), both domestic sales and export orders.
What are good stock picks in 2017? According to Maybank Kim Eng Securities, those listed companies on the Indonesia Stock Exchange that are set to see a good performance this year are Indofood Sukses Makmur (consumer goods), Telekomunikasi Indonesia (telecommunications), Astra International (automotive), Bank Rakyat Indonesia (banking) and Jasa Marga (toll roads). All are key blue chips with a long history in Indonesia. Lets take a quick look why these shares are advised by Malaysia-based Maybank Kim Eng.
Indofood Sukses Makmur (INDF), Indonesia's largest food processing company and - reportedly - the world's largest producer of instant noodles, plans to sell a 52.94 percent stake in China Minzhong Food Corporation Limited (CMFC), a Singapore-listed Chinese integrated vegetable processing firm. Indofood will sell 347 million shares at a price of Sin$ 1.2 per share, hence the sale will have a total value of Sin$ 416.4 million (IDR 3.9 trillion, or USD $313 million). A potential buyer is China Minzhong Holdings Ltd.
On 14 September 2014, Indonesia Investments released the latest edition of its newsletter. This free newsletter, which is sent to our subscribers once per week, contains the most important news stories from Indonesia that have been reported on our website in the last seven days. Most of the topics involve economic topics such Indonesia’s fuel subsidies, economic growth in 2015, monetary policy of Bank Indonesia, the Anas Urbaningrum corruption case, emerging Indonesian companies on a global scale, and more.
The recently launched Investor33 Index has outperformed both the benchmark stock index of Indonesia (Jakarta Composite Index or IHSG), which contains all stocks that are listed on the Indonesia Stock Exchange, and the LQ45 Index, a stock index which contains 45 Indonesian listed companies that fulfil certain criteria. In the first six months of 2014, the Investor33 Index climbed 16.36 percent, whereas the IHSG increased 14.14 percent and the LQ45 Index 15.68 percent.
Beritasatu Media Holdings in cooperation with the Indonesia Stock Exchange (IDX) officially launched its Index Investor33 on Friday (21/03). This index consists of 33 listed companies at the IDX that share strong fundamentals, assessed through both technical and fundamental analyses. According to Hoesen, Director of Corporate Valuation at the IDX, the 33 companies have influenced the performance of the Jakarta Composite Index (Indonesia's benchmark stock index) considerably in recent years.
Indonesia Investments added the company profile of Indofood CBP Sukses Makmur (ICBP). The company is a leading producer of packaged food products in Indonesia with a diverse range of products providing everyday food solutions for consumers of all ages. ICBP was the result of internal restructuring of the consumer branded product (CBP) group at its parent company, Indofood Sukses Makmur. ICBP has five business units: noodles, dairy, food seasonings, snack foods, nutrition and special foods.
Indofood Sukses Makmur (Indofood), one of the top performing consumer goods companies in Indonesia, has operations in each stage of the country's food manufacturing process. Indofood is Indonesia's largest food processing company and the world's biggest producer of instant noodles. As Indonesian consumers have more purchasing power, the company is well positioned to take benefit from this context. Moreover, Indofood is one of the Indonesian companies that expands its business oversees.
Indofood Sukses Makmur (Indofood), Indonesia's largest food processing company and the world's largest producer of instant noodles, posted net sales of IDR 50.06 trillion (US $5.1 billion) over 2012, a 10.4 percent increase compared to 2011. Its Consumer Branded Products Group (CBP) continued to be the largest contributor to its net sales, contributing around 43 percent, followed by Bogasari (25 percent), Agribusiness (24 percent) and Distribution (8 percent).
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It is no secret that Indonesia's economy has been booming in recent years and is appearing more and more on the radars of foreign investors. In the 2000s it was the commodities sector that brought much profit for Indonesian companies that were engaged in the extraction of natural resources such as coal, palm oil, and rubber. The outbreak of the global financial crisis in the late 2000s, however, ended the commodities boom abruptly, while other sectors came to the fore as Indonesia's new gold mines.
