[1] In 1982 Harrisons and Crosfield sold three large plantation groups - Golden Hope, Pataling, and London Asiatic[2] - to Malaysian concerns for £146 million.

[1] The business was renamed GHPB in 1990 after Pemodalan Nasional Berhad took majority equity of the company.

[4] In late November 2006, Synergy Drive Sdn Berhad, a special purpose entity with financing from CIMB Investment Bank Berhad, offered to acquire Golden Hope and seven others PLCs "to create the world's largest listed oil palm plantation" company.

The merger, the largest to take place in Southeast Asia, was intended to consolidate over 6,000 km2 of plantation land.

[5] In November 2007, shares of Golden Hope was de-listed, and the company merged with Sime Darby and Guthrie.