Published: Thursday March 6, 2014 MYT 12:00:00 AM Updated: Thursday March 6, 2014 MYT 6:59:51 AM Newly-appointed Chai hopes to make impact at Astral Supreme
BY INTAN FARHANA ZAINUL
PETALING JAYA: Newly-appointed executive director of Astral Supreme Bhd Datuk Eddie Chai Woon Chet has denied he has any shares in the company but lays out plans to turn around the company with a focus on construction activities.
“I don’t have any stake in Astral Supreme, I was invited by board members to come in,” he told a press conference called by the company.
The company announced five board changes yesterday and, following a special board meeting, it even retracted one resignation.
Earlier yesterday, Astral Supreme said its executive director, Cherng Chin Guan, had resigned from its board. However the company subsequently said that Cherng “has confirmed to the board that he has not tendered his resignation.”
Astral Supreme said the earlier announcement was erroneous and that the board of directors “would like to make an apology for any confusion or inconvenience caused.”
Other changes included the resignation of Ong Tai Chin as non-executive director. Ong, who ceased to be a substantial shareholder of Astral Supreme last month, was the company’s former managing director.
At the moment, the managing director position in the company was still vacant, Chai said.
Another new director to the company is Wong Kwai Wah, who is an executive director of Consortium Zenith BUCG Sdn Bhd, the company that is reportedly the developer of the proposed RM6.3bil undersea tunnel in Penang.
Chai, the son of Sabah timber tycoon Tan Sri Chai Kin Kong, said Astral Supreme’s construction unit had been invited to submit a tender for a RM600mil project by the government under the latter’s Project Perumahaan Rakyat (PPR) plans.
He added that the company was confident of winning the project.
“We have a short deadline to submit our tender, and we are confident of turning around the company via the construction arm,” he said.
Chai said the project would entail the construction of 40,000 units of apartments in Sabah, Malacca, Kelantan and Johor.
It isn’t clear on what basis Astral Supreme has been identified by the Government for this PPR project.
But last August its construction unit, Astral Supreme Construction Sdn Bhd teamed up with Zenith PMC Sdn Bhd to manage, perform and carry out feasibility studies and detailed designs for certain roadworks and the undersea tunnel between Penang island and Seberang Prai.
Astral Supreme reported a net loss of RM10.1mil for its year ended Dec 31, 2013. The company’s main business is in electronic component manufacturing.
Chai made news earlier this year when he surfaced in telecommunications company XOX Bhd. He was made managing director of XOX in January and one report speculated that the Chai family had gained control of the loss-making XOX.
the problem is what other excitement is there besides the 600 million housing contract? if it is only that then at current market price it is expensive
At RM0.135, the downward risk is minimal as compared to the potential uptrend ....... As long as the new management brings in more projects and well manage this company going forward, the value will go up
in local sh market particular the penny stock, performance sometime carry little weight with no gurantee sh will go up. It is perception of good news and more important goreng n goreng by syndicate timely help. just look around.
Will the recently ousted Dato Raymond Chan (from Harvest Court) do anything to increase his shareholding in Asuprem? He lost out to Dato Eddie Chai and gang in Harvest Court. If yes, then Asuprem will move up faster.......good money coming in ?
Hi 008, I was just making a wild guess since Raymond may wanna get back at Eddie by stirring up Asuprem. My broker did informed me that Raymond has started accumulating some Asuprem shares the past two weeks.
My friend told me this counter will start moving again after World Cup and he is right on the spot as this counter has been moving slowly the past three trading days from RM0.135 level. Next target will be retesting RM0.18 then RM0.22
It is a cheap penny stock with good capital appreciation potential. I have a friend who is holding close to 1.4 mil shares and he is making RM14k for every 1 sen increase ..... Any tussle for control will enhance the value....so, it's a good and cheap bet.
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Posted by sheep > 2014-06-09 00:02 | Report Abuse
monday still down. shud reach 0.175 by next week.