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Following a period of rapid diversification, on 15 December 1996, the CMS Board agreed to change the company’s name from Cement Manufacturers Sarawak Berhad to Cahya Mata Sarawak Berhad, subject to approval from the Sarawak State Secretary’s Office. This was obtained in a letter dated 5 March 1996, and the change was officially made on 13 June 1996. ‘Cahya Mata’ […]
The CMS Board incorporated two subsidiaries – CMS Cement Sdn Bhd and CMS Properties Sdn Bhd. CMS acquired stakes in three Sarawak Economic Development Corporation subsidiaries – Sara Kuari Sdn Bhd, including PPES Works (Sarawak) Sdn Bhd and PPES Premix Sdn Bhd; Steel Industry Sarawak Bhd; and PCMS Sdn Bhd. CMS’ infrastructure business expanded with the acquisition of Jabatan Kerja Raya’s […]
On 2 February 1989, CMS’ shares were listed on the Kuala Lumpur Stock Exchange Main Board. The shares had been over-subscribed by more than 20 times. On its opening day, it reached a high of RM2.48 per share – compared with the offer price of RM1.30 – before ending the day at RM2.17. This was the first time a Sarawakian […]
On 12 January 1978, in a simple ceremony witnessed by some 40 invited guests and 79 employees, Sarawak’s then Chief Minister – the late Tun Datuk Patinggi Abdul Rahman Ya’kub – turned the knob to start Borneo’s first cement grinding plant, located at the Pending Industrial Estate. The Chief Minister was elated that the State could now depend on […]
Sarawak State Financial Secretary Tan Sri Datuk Amar Haji Bujang Mohd Nor called the meeting to attention. With him in his office in the Secretariat Building, Kuching, was Datuk Haji Mohd Amin Satem, Executive Chairman of the Sarawak Economic Development Corporation (SEDC) and four others: Datuk Haji Yahya bin Haji Lampong and Philip Lee, both from the Sabah Economic Development […]
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