Japfa Ltd is a multinational agriculture and food corporation headquartered in Singapore with its origins and primary operations in Indonesia (as PT Japfa Comfeed Indonesia Tbk), along with subsidiaries which operate in the rest of Asia. The company was founded in 1971, and listed at the Jakarta Stock Exchange and the Singapore Stock Exchange in 1989 and 2014 respectively. Its business include animal feed alongside fish and poultry products.
History
The company's operations in Indonesia originated in 1959, when Ferry Teguh Santosa founded PT Ometraco as a diversified group.[2] Japfa was founded in 1971 at Surabaya, as a joint venture between Ometraco and German firm Internationale Graanhandel Thegrau to manufacture copra pellets and coconut oil. Its name was initially PT Java Pelletizing Factory.[3][4] In 1982, Ometraco took over Thegrau's stake.[5] Ferry's son, Handojo Santosa, joined Japfa in 1986 and later took over management of the company.