Boustead Singapore
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| Public (SGX: F9D) | |
| Industry | Engineering |
| Founded | 1828 |
| Headquarters | Singapore |
| Products | Energy-related engineering Water & wastewater engineering Real estate solutions Geo-spatial technology |
| Revenue |
 SGD 513.7 million (FY2014) |
| Website | Boustead Singapore Limited Homepage |
Boustead Singapore Limited (SGX: F9D) is a global infrastructure-related engineering services and geo-spatial technology group listed on the Singapore Exchange. Headquartered in Singapore, the company's core businesses are in the development of key infrastructure which supports economic growth in the public and private sectors of emerging markets.
The group's engineering divisions specialise in energy-related engineering, water & wastewater engineering and industrial real estate solutions. Boustead also has a geo-spatial technology arm which distributes Esri geographic information systems to major markets across Australia and South East Asia.
Boustead is listed on the MSCI Global Small Cap Index for Singapore and the FTSE ST Small Cap Index.
Edward Boustead, an English businessman, founded Boustead & Co in 1828. The trading company specialised in import and export, offering goods such as banca tin, spices, saps, rattan, medicinal herbs, silk and tea widely available in South East Asia in exchange for Western products like cloth, oil and machinery.
With the development of a wide trading network in Singapore, trade credit and finance became increasingly important to banks, merchants, manufacturers and traders. Boustead & Co, being one of the largest trading houses of the Far East, was the first agent for Hongkong and Shanghai Bank in Singapore, offering banking facilities, accepting and discounting bills, giving loans and accepting deposits.
By 1899, Singapore had become the world's main exporter of tin. Boustead & Co played a leading role as promoter and investor in the tin smelting facility on Pulau Brani, constructed by the Straits Trading Company. From that point onwards, Straits Tin became one of the leading businesses of Boustead & Co.
During the late 1880s, Boustead & Co introduced rubber trees into Malaysia using seeds germinated by Sir Henry Wickham at London's Botanical Gardens located in Kew. Boustead & Co went on to be a leading rubber plantation manager and owner in Malaysia, acting as secretaries, registrars and agents for 49 plantations with a total planted area of 141,629 acres (573 km2).
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