Boustead Singapore Limited is an engineering services group listed on the Singapore Exchange and headquartered in Singapore.
The group's engineering divisions specialise in energy-related engineering and industrial real estate solutions. Boustead also has a geospatial technology arm which distributes Esri geographic information systems to major markets across Australia and South East Asia.
Boustead is listed on the MSCI Global Small Cap Index for Singapore and the FTSE ST Small Cap Index.
History
Early history
Edward Boustead, an English businessman, founded Boustead & Co in 1828. The trading company specialised in import and export, offering goods such as banca tin, spices, saps, rattan, medicinal herbs, silk and tea widely available in South East Asia in exchange for Western products like cloth, oil and machinery.
With the development of a wide trading network in Singapore, trade credit and finance became increasingly important to banks, merchants, manufacturers and traders.