KINIBIZ Tiger is extremely familiar with palm oil plantations, after all since she was nothing more than a wee cub, Tiger has had to deal with a fast decreasing amount of green spaces, all cleared to make way for large swatches of plantations.

One big company that is into palm oil, rubber and other plantations is Felda, which through its subsidiary and associate companies such as Felda Holdings and Felda Global Ventures Holdings (FGV) acquires such plantations and provides support to the people who cultivate it.

From Tiger’s note comparison sessions with its cousin cats across Malaysia, she hears that Felda is pretty active and has vast tracts of land all over the country. And why not?

The plantation business is no small sang kancil; it is a lucrative business, heck even one of Tiger’s ambitious cousins has made a play for the chief executive officer position in FGV (he is still waiting on a reply, so paws crossed!).

isa samad interview 150509 But if Tiger is being totally honest, she is not sure the FGV position is the one that her cousin should be going for, she thinks he might want to look for something even a little more senior, such as chairperson.

The reality though is that it will be a tough job to nail, as the position in Felda, Felda Holdings and FGV currently belongs to a certain someone named Isa Samad ( left ), who sits as Chairperson on all three boards.

Now do not ask Tiger how that happened, because she is as confused as the next cat on how Isa Samad managed to score the Felda position to begin with.

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This story was written by Stephanie Jacob.