Chip Mong

Chip Mong Group Co., Ltd, commonly referred to as Chip Mong, is a Cambodian conglomerate that provides services in consumer goods, construction materials,^[1] property development, beer and beverages production, cement, hotel and hospitality,^[2] feed,^[3] retail^[4] and banking.^[5]

Chip Mong Group

Native name	ក្រុមហ៊ុន ជីប ម៉ុង
Genre	Conglomerate
Founded	1982
Founder	Neak Oknhna Pheap Heak Neak Ouknha Leang Khun Neak Ouknha Leang Meng
Headquarters	137, Mao Tse Tung Blvd., Boeng Keng Kang III, Chamkamon, Phnom Penh, Cambodia
Key people	Neak Oknha Leang Khun Neak Oknha Leang Meng
Number of employees	5000+
Subsidiaries	Chip Mong Trading Chip Mong Industries Chip Mong Land Khmer Beverages Crown Production Chip Mong Insee Hyatt Regency Phnom Penh Chip Mong Feed Chip Mong Retail Fairfield Marriot Phnom Penh Chip Mong Bank Grand Royal Golf and Resorts Grand Phnom Penh City
Website	chipmong.com/en/

History

Chip Mong was established in 1982 and has grown into "one of the largest homegrown conglomerates [in Cambodia]".^[6]

From the 1980s, as Cambodia recovered from the massive devastation of the Cambodian Civil War and the atrocities of the Khmers Rouges regime, Madam Pheap Heak started a small business to buy and sell construction scrap metal, before in 1997 setting up a company called Chip Mong to import fine steel from abroad to supply to Cambodia's construction sector.^[7]

From 1990 onwards, Chip Mong began expanding its business by importing cement and consumer goods from neighboring countries.^[8] Chip Mong has since become one of the leading local supplier of construction materials^[9] and consumer products^[10] in the country.

In 2008, the Chip Mong group launched into real estate and in 2009, in the beer and beverages by launching Khmer Breweries.^[11]

In December 2010, the Chip Mong Group entered the booming construction sector in Cambodia, relying on ties with both Vietnam on one side,^[12] and Thailand on the other, by signing a $200 million joint - venture agreement with Siam City Cement Plc.^[13] The cement factory was inaugurated by Prime Minister Hun Sen on February 8, 2018.^[14]

Chip Mong recently entered the sector of tourism and hospitality by renovating and expanding a luxury hotel in Daun Penh together with the American multinational hospitality company Hyatt in 2016, finally opening in 2020 amid the COVID-19 pandemic,^[15] during which the Chip Mung group along other private investors helped the Cambodian government with major donations.^[16]

In 2017, Chip Mong invested about $60 million in a plant to produce pig feed, with facilities to raise pigs for the Cambodian market,^[3] in an effort to "reduce imports and increase products produced by Cambodia".^[17]

In 2018, Chip Mong expanded into the financial sector with its newest venture – Chip Mong Commercial Bank Plc.^[5]

Chip Mong's growth goes along with the evolution of Cambodia from the past as a primarily agricultural country to the industrialised nation.^[18]

Three years later, in March 2021, the three major players of the Chip Mong group were all elevated to the rank of Oknha on the same occasion by a royal decree issued by His Majesty King Norodom Sihamoni.^[19]

Structure

Chip Mong is a family-owned business headed by Oknha Leang Khun and Leang Meng^[20] under the leadership of Chairlady Oknha Madam Pheap Heak.^[21]

Chip Mong invests into several child businesses, so-called subsidiaries:

• Chip Mong Trading,
• Chip Mong Industries,^[18]
• Chip Mong Land,^[22]
• Khmer Beverages reportedly employing 1,100 staff as of 2019,^[23]
  • Crown Khmer Beverages Cans Limited,
• Chip Mong Insee Cement Corporation,^[24]
• Hyatt Regency Phnom Penh,
• Chip Mong Feed,^[17]
• Chip Mong Retail,^[4]
• Fairfield by Marriott Phnom Penh', the first Fairfield by Marriott hotel in Cambodia, in 2017^[25]
• Chip Mong Commercial Bank,^[26]
• Grand Phnom Penh City,^[27]
• Grand Royal Golf & Resorts.