KUALA LUMPUR (March 24): Former chief secretary to the government Tan Sri Mohd Zuki Ali has been named as the non-executive chairman of Kim Teck Cheong Consolidated Bhd (KL:KTC), succeeding Tun Richard Malanjum who stepped down citing overseas commitments.

According to a bourse filing, Mohd Zuki’s appointment took effect on Tuesday, March 24. He was Malaysia’s 15th chief secretary, serving from 2020 to 2024.

A career civil servant, he joined the administrative and diplomatic service in 1992 and held senior roles across ministries, including as the director general of legal affairs at the Prime Minister’s Department, Sarawak’s federal affairs secretary, senior deputy secretary general at the PM’s Department, and secretary general of the Ministry of Defence before rising to the top of the civil service.

Meanwhile, Sabahan Malanjum was Malaysia’s first East Malaysian Chief Justice, serving from July 2018 until his retirement in April 2019. In 2022, he was appointed as the ombudsperson to the ISIL and Al-Qaida Sanctions Committee of the United Nations Security Council.

Sabah-based Kim Teck Cheong, a consumer packaged goods distributor and manufacturer with 88 years of operating history, crossed the RM1 billion revenue mark in the financial year ended June 30, 2025 (FY2025), posting RM1.1 billion in revenue and RM18.82 million in net profit. This compared with RM946.34 million in revenue and RM16.4 million in net profit in FY2024.

For the first half ended Dec 31, 2025 (1HFY2026), net profit fell 20.2% to RM6.59 million from RM8.25 million a year earlier, despite revenue rising 12.8% to RM597.23 million. The weaker earnings were mainly due to higher write-offs of expired and damaged inventory.

By Tuesday’s midday break, shares in Kim Teck Cheong were 3.8% or half a sen higher at 13.5 sen, valuing the company at RM92.05 million. The counter has declined 18.2% over the past year.