Annual Report 2010 - Leeden Limited

A Stronger Leeden in Asia.RegionalExpansionIn recent years, Leeden has been expanding robustly,increasing market share and expanding our regionalpresence through geographical diversification. TheGroup has sales and distribution offices, agenciesand manufacturing facilities spanning across7 countries in Southeast Asia.Headquartered in the western part of Singaporeat 1 Shipyard Road, the 6-acre site houses ourcorporate offices, sales operation and showroom,central logistics, gas refilling stations and aDissolved Acetylene (“DA”) plant.MalaysiaOver the years, we have established a strong salesdistribution network across the Western part of Malaysia.With the opening of a new sales office and a new gasrefilling plant in Kuantan, we extended our footprints acrossthe eastern part of Peninsula Malaysia and completed ourcoverage across the major states of Selangor, Terengganu,Pahang, Kedah and Perak to Johor.The new establishment in Kuantan under NIG Timur Sdn Bhdhas a total land area of 2.48 acres. This site includes a 2-storey office building, warehouse and industrial gas refillingplant with 28,000 square feet set aside for additionalproduction facilities in the near future.The Group has also added a new DA Plant under NIG UtaraSdn Bhd in Penang. The fully operational plant, is now thelargest DA manufacturing facility in the northern region ofMalaysia.0