Perbadanan Nasional information

Perbadanan Nasional Berhad
Native name	Perbadanan Nasional
Company type	State-owned enterprise
Founded	November 1969
Headquarters	Tower 7, Avenue 7, Bangsar South City, No. 8, Jalan Kerinchi, 59200 Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
Key people	YBhg Datuk Dzulkifli Fadzilah, Chairman since August 2018
Parent	Minister of Finance Incorporated
Website	www.pernas.my

Perbadanan Nasional Berhad (English: National Corporation, abbreviated PERNAS) was set up in November 1969 as a wholly owned government company to carry out the resolutions at the Second Bumiputera Economic Congress. Among the major shareholders included were Malaysia's Ministry of Finance, Bank Negara Malaysia (The Central Bank of Malaysia) and Bank Bumiputera Malaysia Berhad. Pernas was put under a solid footing under the chairmanship of Tengku Razaleigh Hamzah (1970–1974) who had been the Minister of Finance from 1976 to 1984.^[1]

With the background of poor and very low participation of Bumiputeras in the private sector and industries at that time, PERNAS' principle were to:

to enter undertakings which would bring high economic returns,
when enter into joint ventures, PERNAS was to be the majority stockholder with controlling interest over operations,
Bumiputeras were to be employed at all levels of operations and undertakings.^[2]

8 subsidiaries were set up under PERNAS to achieve its objective. Malaysia National Insurance Berhad (MNI) was established in April 1970. There followed during 1971 Pernas Construction Sdn. Bhd., Pernas Engineering Sdn. Bhd., and Pernas Securities Sdn. Bhd. Then came Pernas Mining Sdn. Bhd (1973) and Pernas Edar Sdn Bhd (1974).

Tengku Razaleigh Hamzah was in the thick of what became known as the Haw Par imbroglio of the mid-1970s, working with the Singapore-based Haw Par Brothers International Ltd, then an offshoot of the empire of British wheeler-dealer Jim Slater, to acquire control of London Tin Company, the British-controlled tin conglomerate, and the Sime Darby plantations conglomerate.^[3] This was to be achieved through a complex series of transactions by which PERNAS would end up as the largest shareholder of both. It failed when Singapore accused Haw Par of financial irregularities and later jailed a senior executive and the head, Donald Watson, fled to Ireland.

But it proved a short-lived setback for Tengku Razaleigh Hamzah. Within two years, a share and proxy battle orchestrated by merchant bank Rothschild – which was also a part owner of Bumiputera Merchant Bankers – brought Sime Darby under Malaysian control and its headquarters shifted to Kuala Lumpur. Control of London Tin Company was acquired the same year. In another coup in 1979, Malaysian money made a “dawn raid” on British plantation giant, Kumpulan Guthrie Bhd, which wrenched the company from British control; most of the other British owned plantations soon followed.^[4]

Among the major corporate takeover exercise and formation of new businesses during Razaleigh's stewardship as Pernas Chairman were

Insurance - Malaysia National Insurance Bhd,
Banking - Maybank Bhd,
Mining - the then world largest tin mining company, London Tin Company which later were renamed into Malaysian Mining Corporation. It is known as MM Corporation Berhad.
Palm Oil and Rubber Producer - Sime Darby, Guthrie Berhad, Highlands and Lowlands Berhad.

^ The Developing Economies, Malaysia's Localization Policy and its impact of British owned Enterprises, Page 372, Institute of Developing Economies, Japan
^ The Developing Economies, Malaysia's Localization Policy and its impact of British owned Enterprises, Page 374, Institute of Developing Economies, Japan
^ The Straits Times 2 January 1976 page 5, National Library, Singapore
^ A Onetime Political Star Returns to Malaysia's Stage, 24 March 2008, http://www.asiasentinel.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=1113&Itemid=31 Archived 2013-05-02 at the Wayback Machine

[1] The Developing Economies, Malaysia's Localization Policy and its impact of British owned Enterprises, Page 372, Institute of Developing Economies, Japan

[2] The Developing Economies, Malaysia's Localization Policy and its impact of British owned Enterprises, Page 374, Institute of Developing Economies, Japan

[3] The Straits Times 2 January 1976 page 5, National Library, Singapore

[4] A Onetime Political Star Returns to Malaysia's Stage, 24 March 2008, http://www.asiasentinel.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=1113&Itemid=31 Archived 2013-05-02 at the Wayback Machine

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