BALIKPAPAN, INDONESIA – Media OutReach – 5 July 2021 – Continuing the successful ‘Gotong Royong’ (Mutual Cooperation) vaccination campaign that was carried out across its operations in Jakarta, Marunda, and North Sumatra, Apical Group today rolled out another mass vaccination campaign for all employees at its Balikpapan operations.

Apical employees in Balikpapan get their first injection of the ‘Gotong-Royong’ Vaccination.

Apical Group is part of a global group of companies managed by Royal Golden Eagle (RGE), whose Chairman and founder Sukanto Tanoto believes in the 5Cs approach of creating value for the community, country, climate, customer and country.

President Director of RGE Indonesia, Irsan Syarief said that the ‘Gotong Royong’ vaccination campaign represents RGE’s support of and contribution to the success of the National Vaccination Program, a priority government agenda to contain the spread of COVID-19.

“The health and safety of all employees in our business groups are top priority. Vaccination provides protection for our employees to continue working in this new normal era and support our nation’s economic recovery, especially in the forestry and plantation industries,” said Irsan.

The successful implementation of the ‘Gotong Royong’ vaccination campaign also represents the close and strong partnership between the public and private sectors.

Apical Group SSL Manager M. Jaya Budiarsa said: “We are very grateful to be part of this ‘Gotong Royong’ vaccination campaign for benefit of all our employees, especially those in Balikpapan. We hope to achieve herd immunity and spur economic recovery in the industrial forest plantation sector (HTI), the palm oil industry plantations, and the downstream industry, such as biodiesel B30 and oleo chemical.”

Initiated by the Indonesian Chamber of Commerce and Industry (KADIN), the ‘Gotong Royong’ vaccination campaign involves a nationwide cooperation between the private sector and the government. Seen as a critical step to accelerate the Indonesia’s economic recovery, the vaccination campaign has received strong support and endorsement from President Joko Widodo.

Apical remains committed to have all employees vaccinated for all employees. A total 130 employees in Balikpapan have received their vaccinations. Apical employees in Dumai and Padang will be the next batch to receive their vaccinations.

About Apical

Apical Group is one of the largest palm oil exporters in Indonesia, owning and controlling a broad spectrum of the palm oil business value chain from sourcing to distribution. The company is also involved in the refining, processing and trading of palm oil for domestic use and for international export. Its operations are located in Indonesia, China and Spain, and include six refineries, three biodiesel plants, an oleo chemical plant and a kernel crushing plant.

Apical’s business is built on an extensive sourcing network in Indonesia with integrated refinery assets in strategic locations. This is reinforced by efficient logistics channels supported by Apical’s own infrastructure to deliver to a wide range of clients from international trading houses to local industrial buyers. With its unique business model, Apical has been able to control product quality and address sustainability and food safety concerns, while running highly efficient operations in world-class refineries and integrated storage and bulking facilities.

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HONG KONG SAR – Media OutReach – 2 July 2021 – Kerry Logistics Network Limited (‘Kerry Logistics Network’; Stock Code 0636.HK) is honoured to be recognised as one of the “Most Honored Companies” in Institutional Investor‘s annual All-Asia (ex-Japan) Executive Team rankings for the sixth consecutive year. It was also ranked in the top three in five categories under the Transportation sector.

Kerry Logistics Network and its key executives secured top three in the following categories, based on votes from buy-side analysts, money managers, and sell-side researchers at securities firms and financial institutions that cover the Asian region:

• Best CEO – William Ma
• Best CFO – Ellis Cheng
• Best Investor Relations Professional – Iris Tsang
• Best Investor Relations Program
• Best ESG

William Ma, Group Managing Director of Kerry Logistics Network, said, “We are honoured to be recognised once again for our commitment to a proactive investor relations strategy. While it has been imperative to respond to the challenges brought by the pandemic, in terms of investor relations, we have remained steadfast in maintaining our transparency, stepping up communication with the investment community and addressing investors’ concerns. Despite all the difficulties, we believe it is of paramount importance for us to keep our shareholders and investors up to date, particularly on Kerry Logistics Network’s latest corporate developments, while providing comprehensive disclosure to our stakeholders to ensure we create value for all. We are grateful to Institutional Investor and the investment community for the long-term support, and we will continue doing our best in applying global best practices in our investor relations programme.”

Kerry Logistics has received the “Most Honored Companies” accolade since 2016. The 2021 All-Asia (ex-Japan) Executive Team rankings were determined by the votes from over 4,000 investment professionals across 1,285 financial services firms. The survey covered several core areas, including “Financial Disclosure”, “IR Services & Communications”, “COVID-19 responses”, “ESG”, “CEO”, “CFO” and “IR Professional”.

About Kerry Logistics Network Limited (Stock Code 0636.HK)

Kerry Logistics Network is an Asia-based, global 3PL with a highly diversified business portfolio and the strongest coverage in Asia. It offers a broad range of supply chain solutions from integrated logistics, international freight forwarding (air, ocean, road, rail and multimodal), industrial project logistics, to cross-border e-commerce, last-mile fulfilment and infrastructure investment.

With a global presence across 59 countries and territories, Kerry Logistics Network has established a solid foothold in half of the world’s emerging markets. Its diverse infrastructure, extensive coverage in international gateways and local expertise span across China, India, Southeast Asia, the CIS, Middle East, LATAM and other locations.

Kerry Logistics Network generated a revenue of over HK$53 billion in 2020 and is the largest international logistics company listed on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange.

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About Institutional Investor

Now entering its fifth decade, Institutional Investor has consistently distinguished itself among the world’s foremost financial publications with groundbreaking journalism and incisive writing that provides essential intelligence for a global audience. In addition, Institutional Investor offers a host of proprietary research and rankings that serve as respected industry benchmarks.

SINGAPORE – Media OutReach – 2 July 2021 – The Nailist, a home-grown Manicure Singapore service provider, collaborates with Outrankco to improve its overall digital capabilities.

With the lack of walk-in customers and people working from home during the Covid-19 period, it has inevitably affected the performance of most brick-and-mortar store, even more so for services that requires close contact with the customers such as manicure and pedicure services. The pandemic has caused an overall decline in revenue and customer engagement rates across all Nailist outlets. In light of this issue, they started looking for a digital marketing agency capable of improving their current marketing strategy.

The Nailist has been around since 2011, and for the past few years their traditional marketing strategy hasn’t done much to grow. Moreover with the onset of technology, people are now turning towards online channels to search for information. The Nailist hopes to capitalize on this trend and seize growth opportunities in the digital economy by implementing digital marketing strategy through Outrankco, a Singapore based digital marketing agency specializing in SEO services.

The collaboration is to promote The Nailist website in Google’s Search Engine Results Pages (SERPs). Both companies strive to bring the website to the first page in Google. “By ranking on the first page in Google, not only it will increase the traffic to our website, it will also generate leads and enquiries for our services”, said Beverly, marketing manager of The Nailist. “We are also aiming to retain our existing customer base, at the same time reach out to new customers who are actively searching for our services through social media advertising”, Beverly added.

With the Singapore government pushing to accelerate digitization, The Nailist is looking into the need to expand into ECommerce platform to build stronger digital capabilities and stay competitive.

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