Questions time 9-11-2011: MAS sold 70% of MAS Catering & signed a 25 year exclusive contract

09.11.2011

Y.B. TUAN WEE CHOO KEONG [ WANGSA MAJU ] minta MENTERI KEWANGAN menyatakan:-

(a)     mengapa pada tahun 2003, MAS yang berada di bawah Tan Sri Md Nor Md Yusof, yang pada masa itu merupakan Pengarah Urusan MAS dan juga arkitek bagi Widespread Asset Un-bundling aka “WAU” telah menjual 70% saham daripada bahagian di dalam MAS Catering Sdn Bhd, sebuah syarikat MAS yang ‘profitable’ dengan purata perolehan tahunan sebanyak RM300 – RM400 juta dan keuntungan bersih sebanyak RM50 juta atau lebih setiap tahun, kepada sebuah syarikat dan serentak dengan itu MAS memasuki suatu perjanjian yang dianggap berat sebelah terhadap MAS di mana MAS terpaksa membeli semua makanan dan minuman serta lain-lain perkhidmatan kabin dengan keuntungan jaminan daripada syarikat tersebut selama 25 tahun; dan

(b)     nama syarikat itu dan juga harga jualan serta butir-butir penuh perjanjian selama 25 tahun tersebut dan apakah tindakan yang telah diambil oleh Khazanah untuk memecahkan perjanjian yang tidak adil ini yang boleh menjejaskan pertumbuhan MAS dan/atau untuk meringankan beban kewangan MAS.

JAWAPAN

Tuan Yang di-Pertua,

Untuk makluman Yang Berhormat, pada 30 Julai 2002 Malaysian Airline System Bhd (MAS) telah melupuskan 70% pegangan dalam MAS Catering Sdn Bhd (MCSB) kepada Konsortium Gubahan Saujana Sdn Bhd pada harga jualan sebanyak RM175 juta, berdasarkan kajian menyeluruh (due diligence) dan nilai pasaran yang adil (fair market value).

Pelupusan ini merupakan sebahagian daripada strategi penyusunan semula kewangan bagi membolehkan MAS memberi tumpuan kepada aktiviti terasnya iaitu dalam penyediaan perkhidmatan penerbangan domestik dan antarabangsa serta perkhidmatan kargo. Selain itu, pelupusan ini juga membolehkan MAS memperoleh dana yang sangat diperlukan pada ketika itu di samping mengekalkan 30% pegangan dalam MCSB untuk memelihara kepentingannya.

Susulan pelupusan saham berkenaan, MAS dan MCSB telah menandatangani Catering Agreement pada 25 September 2003. Perjanjian untuk tempoh 25 tahun berkenaan merupakan satu perkongsian perniagaan strategic jangka panjang di antara syarikat penerbangan dan pembekal/penyaji makanan dan wajar diteruskan bagi memastikan tahap kualiti makanan yang disediakan oleh MAS sentiasa terjamin dan memuaskan penumpangnya. Catering Agreement ini boleh ditamatkan dengan syarat, pihak yang ingin menamatkan perjanjian perlu membeli saham pihak yang bertentangan (Buy Back Event).

Read HERE, HERE for related article on MAS Catering Sdn Bhd who is the person behind Gubahan Saujana Sdn Bhd.

Notes:

  1. Widespread Assets Un-bundling aka as WAU was the brainchild of Tan Sri Md Nor Md Yusof the then Managing Director of MAS and the newly crowned Chairman of MAS.

  2. Tan Sri Md Nor Md Yusof was instrumental in appointing the consultant firm, BinaFikir Sdn Bhd.

  3. BinaFikir Sdn Bhd was incorporated in January 2002 by Tan Sri Azman Mokhtar and En Mohammed Rashdan Yusof aka Danny (Rashdan)

  4. In March 2002 BinaFikir Sdn Bhd was appointed the consultant to “SAVE”   MAS. When BinaFikir Sdn Bhd was carrying out WAU, both Tan Sri Azman and Rashdan were stationed full time in MAS headquarters. Both of them took about eight and half month (in November 2002) to complete WAU. Read HERE.

  5. Thereafter, BinaFikir Sdn Bhd was appointed as the consultant firm to many GLCs until 2008. 

  6. On 1-6-2004 (after three years BinaFikir Sdn Bhd) Tan Sri Azman Mokhtar was appointed by the then PM, Tun Abdullah bin Hj Ahmad Badawi, as the MD of Khazanah Nasional Sdn Bhd.  This appointment must have been made by chance! I believe that Tan Sri Nor Mohamad Yacop, the then powerful Minister of Finance II, had no hand in the said appointment.

  7. In 2008 (six years after incorporation) Maybank Bhd bought BinaFikir Sdn Bhd for RM8 millions. By the way Maybank Bhd is one of the GLCs.  Rashdan was  part of BinaFikir Sdn Bhd, a subsidiary of Maybank Bhd, for a short spell.

  8. Soon after Rashdan left BinaFikir Sdn Bhd, he was appointed by Tan Sri Azman Mokhtar to a high position in Khazanah Nasional Bhd.

  9. After inking the secret MAS-Asia share swap on 9-8-2011,  Rashdan was appointed as the key man in MAS and now the Deputy CEO in MAS.

  10. Despite the financial problems that MAS was facing, on 16-8-2011 ( 7 days after inking the said secret share swap) Rashdan flew to London to sign the RM18 millions sponsorship of QPR home jersey for 2 years. It was, of course, by chance that in April 2011 Tan Sri Tony Fernandes bought a substantial shares in QPR! By the way Genting paid RM17 millions for also a two year sponsorship for Aston Villa home and away jersey.

  11. Thereafter, MAS started to terminate Firefly profitable routes from JB to KK and Kuching, cancel full load Firefly flights during the recent Raya season causing great incoveniences to about 7,000 passengers, who have already purchased tickets, and in October 2011 the termination of MAS profitable route to Bandung, Indonesia, leaving AirAsia to dominate this sector.

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