KL LRT GEORGE KENT AWAITS

It is reported in the star that the company George Kent is still awaiting the award of the LRT extension "tender".

The paper quoted that the chairman of the company is still awaiting the award of the Ampang LRT extension costing rm960mil. The tender was closed 16 Jun last year. The other bidders were:

- Invensys-Balfour Beatty Rail-Ingress consortium,
- Posco-Sojitz-Daewoo International-Thales group,
- Colas-CMC Engineering-Thales,
- Samsung-LG-Thales,
-SNC Lavalin-WW Engineering-Bombardier,
- Siemens-Scomi Engineering and
- Ansaldo-Emrail-Leighton.


About George Kent.

2007 - It was reported that George Kent pushes forward  banking on its infrastructure investments and manufacturing of water meters to drive future earnings.

GKM is the Malaysian’s oldest and largest manufacturer of water meters. Its current business is divided into manufacturing of meters and non-meter products, infrastructure contracts and investments as well as building services.

2011 - profit before tax rm26 million