Halal Industries & Retail Parks

The group through its subsidiary Super Halal Industrial Parks ltd (SHIP) have commenced an initiative to launch the several Halal Park in a joint venture with Penang Development Authority.

These industrial parks will be developed in partnership with private sector as well as regional development authorities e.g. Malaysia, UK, EU, Brasil and other OIC countries.

The plan is that each typical SHIP ‘cluster’ will be be about 30 acres and the entire SUPER PARK will be in the region of 150 acres minimum in each country or region. The plan is to host amongst others industry sectors, aquaculture, biotechnology within each park and collaborate with the local farming and enterprise community.

UK - HALAL INDUSTRIAL PARK - first Halal super industrial park in Europe

The planned operation will be launched this year with the first such sites preferably to be located in the South East and South West of the UK and seek to work and partner alongside with the local Regeneration Development Authorities. These parks will be located in brownfield sites in the UK and focused mainly in the UK Regeneration areas.

As part of the joint venture, the Penang Development Authority will provide a full advisory role in designing, building and implementing the Halal Park.

Halal Industries will also be seeking to develop such parks in other regions in partnership with other regional authorities e.g. other EU countries.

The Halal Park UK cluster will be in the region of 150 acres collectively. The park will also house a training campus dedicated to training Halal processing and preparation courses. The plan is to invest in, among others, aquaculture, biotechnology and collaborate with the local farming community in the UK.

The group currently has several ready to let such Industial parks in Malaysia.

New Halal Parks are also currently being developed in several countries and they will be built in phases and would take 3 to 5 years to be fully developed.

The designated halal parks in the country will offer incentives including tax exemptions for investors.

The main focus of the Halal Parks is to act as an anchor partner to companies and entrepreneurs including suppliers and contract manufacturers, within their network. This will create multiplier effects in the growth of the halal industry.

SHIP will soon launch the Halal Enterprise Support Centre, which aims to act as a global reference centre in halal knowledge and halal-related services for investors and consumers.

The cluster of parks will house

FOOD PRODUCTION - The manufacture of halal food and non-food products
LIVE STOCK - meat selection and processing
POULTRY - growing of poultry and also processing
FISHERIES – fish farms and canning
AGRO-BASED – supporting local agro-based industries
BIOTECHNOLOGY AND INCUBATOR – working jointly with current innovators in the country
LIFE SCIENCES – development of supporting technologies.
R&D and technology providers

The highlight of the Halal Parks is to provide a ‘Halal-eco’ environment. It will build and implement the infrastructure in accordance with ECO-Industrial Park principles.

Its key focus will be to seek enhanced environmental, economic, and social performance through collaboration in managing environmental and resource issues. The main goal of the SHIP is to improve the economic performance of the participating companies while minimizing their environmental impacts, by establishing a system where the by-product of one industry/process is the raw material of another neighbouring industry/process, resulting in lower pollution and environmental impact .

Components of SHIP include “green” design of the industrial park infrastructure and facilities, cleaner production methods, pollution prevention systems, energy efficiency, and inter-company partnerships.

The centre will provide a one-stop support service for companies and service providers including fatwa know-how, information on halal certification, capacity building, investment opportunities in UK, access to halal-safe ingredients and halal certified companies, as well as information on incentives.

Vision

SHIP’s vision is to provide interested entrepreneurs a choice of ready to occupy industrial units inside Halal Industrial parks which are fully equipped and able to cater to the Halal sector with full certification and Halal production governance.

Mission

SHIP’s mission is to create values for business participating in the Halal Industrial park and to provide the park participants a fast tract method of entering the Halal value chain.

SHIP - Value propositions

The Halal Industrial HUB is designed to offer the following value propositions:

- Strong support from local government

- Developed Infrastructure

- Vibrant Business Environment for local and foreign Investment

- Educated and skilled Work force

- Accessible to wide range of Halal finance , banking and insurance facilities

- Availability of Research and Development Facilities

- Institution of higher Learning through strategic partnership.

- Outstanding Logistics link – Land, Sea and Air