INSAS汤国基 掌控6上市公司 INSAS' Dato' Sri Thong Kok Kee controls 6 listed companies

 

Dato’ Sri Thong Kok Khee is a major shareholder of several listed companies, namely Diversified Gateway Solutions Berhad, Ho Hup Construction Company Berhad, Inari Amertron Berhad, Insas Berhad, Microlink Solutions Berhad, Omesti Berhad & SYF Resources Berhad.

A graduate from the London School of Economics, United Kingdom, Dato’ Sri Thong has worked in the financial services industry from 1979 to 1988. He worked for Standard Chartered Merchant Bank Asia Limited in Singapore from October 1982 to June 1988 and his last held position was Director of its Corporate Finance Division. Dato’ Sri Thong is the Executive Deputy Chairman cum Chief Executive Officer of Insas Berhad. He is also a Non-Independent Non-Executive Director of Inari Amertron Berhad, Omesti Berhad and SYF Resources Berhad.

As at 20 December 2022, Dato’ Sri Thong's shareholdings in listed companies in Bursa Malaysia are listed as below:

27.003% DFX(0131) as at 17 Nov 2022

14.703% HOHUP(5169) as at 31 Mar 2022

14.640% INARI(0166) as at 23 Sep 2022

25.050% INSAS(3379) as at 30 Sep 2022

10.080% OMESTI(9008) as at 30 Jun 2022

08.790% SYF(7082) as at 17 Nov 2022

Meanwhile, Dato’ Sri Thong's flagship company, INSAS, also has a hand of stake in several companies which listed in above:

HOHUP 66,895,250 13.518%

INARI 545,153,575 16.327%

OMESTI 53,859,500 10.12%

SYF 50,015,200 8.399%

While his related company, OMESTI also owns 123,980,793 shares or 51.382% of MICROLN indirectly.

INSAS is the investment holding and management company for the Insas Group.

The Company was incorporated in the Federation of Malaya under the Companies Ordinance 1940-1946 as a private limited company under the original name of Paper Products (Malaya) Ltd on 27 January 1961. The Company was converted to a public company on 24 June 1968 and assumed the name of Paper Products (Malaya) Berhad. On 22 October 1987, the Company assumed its present name. The shares of the Company were listed on the Main Board of the Kuala Lumpur Stock Exchange (now known as Bursa Malaysia Securities Berhad) on 23 June 1969.

The Group's principal businesses include technology, property investment holdings, structured finance, corporate advisory & stock broking, investment holding & trading, car rental & logistics, retailer of high fashion products and operators of F&B outlets.

The issued and paid-up share capital of the Company is RM873,685,641 comprises 693,333,633 ordinary shares and 132,601,268 redeemable preference shares. The audited shareholders' funds of the Group as at 30 June 2018 is RM1.648 billion.

INSAS has several interesting assets:

-M & A Securities

Established since 1963, M&A Securities Sdn Bhd is a stockbroker and corporate finance adviser in Malaysia with extensive experience in securities dealing, corporate finance and investment advisory. M&A Securities is a participating organisation of Bursa Malaysia Securities Berhad, licensed by Securities Commission, Malaysia and a wholly owned subsidiary of INSAS. M&A Securities is also a registered Principal Adviser with the SC and a registered ACE Market sponsor with Bursa Malaysia.

Headquartered in Mid Valley, Kuala Lumpur, M&A Securities is rapidly extending its stockbroking services to their clients through 6 established branch offices covering from the Southern region @ Johor Bahru, the Northern region @ Pulau Pinang & Perak and to the Central region in Kuala Lumpur. All of which to offer clients the best and easy to reach in financial services through a premium tailor-made services as we engaged our clients as personal consultants to guide them to their financial gains.

Furthermore, with strong understanding on the stockbroking, corporate finance and advisory business for more than 5 decades, M&A Securities is strategically positioned in Asia’s leading business and financial markets that fosters trust and innovation towards our clients’ investment management.

-DÔME Café

DÔME Café originates from Perth, Western Australia. The founders envisioned and actualised a dining experience with quality service, speciality food and coffees.

The Melium Group introduced DÔME Café to Malaysians in 1995. 

26 March 2021 Updates:

英莎（INSAS）创办人拿督斯里汤国基是一名低调超级富豪，鲜少接受媒体访问，他通过英莎持有多家上市公司股权，他大多数时候是＂静态投资者＂，最近他在股市也有少少动作，小手买进2家公司股票。

汤国基在三月有分几手买进建筑产业公司和合（HOHUP 5169），最新一次出手是三月廿二日，他以42.5仙价格，买进100,000股和合。

汤国基是和合大股东之一，买进这批股票後，他共持有6694万股13.53%股权。

此外，汤国基也在三月十九日和廿二日，分别买进200,000和100,000股益纳利美昌（INARI 0166）。

他的入手价分别是RM3.28和RM3.25，截至三月廿四日，汤国基共持5亿5054万股或16.49%益纳利。

1 April 2021 Updates:

Software and application developer Omesti Bhd has acquired a total of 4.94 million shares in Microlink Solutions Bhd from the open market for RM9.71 million, or an average RM1.97 per share.

In a bourse filing, Omesti said its wholly owned Omesti Holdings Bhd (OHB) had, between Sept 2, 2020 and March 31, 2021, acquired the shares, which represented 2.05% of Microlink's total number of issued shares.

Following the acquisitions, Omesti now controls 124.91 million Microlink shares, representing 51.77% equity interest in the company, via OHB.

Omesti said the Microlink shares were acquired at prevailing market prices of Microlink shares at the time of acquisitions and were funded through internally-generated funds.

“After having reviewed the investment portfolio of the company, the acquisitions provide an opportunity for Omesti to increase its stake in Microlink to 51.77%,” it said, adding that the expansion is for potential value enhancement.

Microlink is principally engaged in investment holding and provision of research and development on information technology solutions to the financial services industry.

“The board does not envisage any specific risk associated with the acquisitions, apart from the general business and global economic risks faced by Microlink, which are similar to the operational risks that Omesti is already accustomed to, given that Omesti is in the same line of business as Microlink.

“Hence, the board believes that the experience and expertise of its management team will enable the group to mitigate these risks effectively,” it said.