Consumer >> CEO Interviews >> October 11, 1999

Michael St. Claire-george – Sipef Sa (sif.b)

MICHAEL A. ST. CLAIR-GEORGE is Managing Director of SIPEF S.A. He has spent more than 25 years in tropical agriculture mostly in Malaysia and Indonesia. In Malaysia, he had a board appointment with Golden Hope Plantations Bhd., the Malaysian successor to the formerly British owned Harrisons and Crosfield plantation companies. He joined the SIPEF group in 1991 as Managing Director of their Indonesian companies and was appointed Managing Director of the holding company in Belgium in 1997. He is a chartered accountant (England and Wales) and qualified in London before starting his career in planting. Profile
TWST: Can you give me a brief overview of Sipef and a little bit of

history. What are your main activities?

Mr. St. Clair-George: We're a Belgian plantation group and were

established in 1919.