Jardine Cycle & Carriage Limited () is the investment holding company of the Jardine Matheson Group in Southeast Asia. It is currently 75%-held by the conglomerate. The company was listed on the Singapore Exchange in 1969 as Cycle & Carriage Limited before it renamed to Jardine Cycle & Carriage Limited in 2004 following the integration into the Jardine Matheson Group in 2002. It is one of Singapore's largest publicly listed companies by market capitalization, valued at S$11.9 billion and a component stock on the Straits Times Index. The company’s underlying profit for 2019 was US$0.863B. History Early history as Federal Stores It was first founded as Federal Stores in 1899 by a trader in nutmeg and sundries on Jalan Bandar (High Street) in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. On 15 June 1899, it was renamed Cycle & Carriage by its founders, the Chua brothers, and thereafter, it expanded to sell bicycles, motorcycles, and eventually motor cars. In 1904, Cycle & Carriage shifted to the corner of High Street, Market Street and Market Square and subsequently expanded to Ipoh, Penang and Singapore. World War I and the shift to Singapore During World War I, Cycle & Carriage suffered economically as a result of the shortage of supply for cars. The war, however, encouraged the development of automobile technology, stimulating interest in the motor car, and spurring demand for Cycle & Carriage's products in 1918. In that year, Cycle & Carriage was registered in the Federated Malay States with SG$250,000 in registered capital. In 1926, Cycle & Carriage shifted its headquarters to Orchard Road in Singapore, with capital of SG$5 million and registered as a public company known as The Cycle & Carriage Company (1926) Limited. World War II and the Daimler-Benz contract World War II caused the company to cease operations, and its workshops, motor cars and trucks were absorbed by the Japanese during the Japanese occupation of Malaya and the Japanese occupation of Singapore. Following that in 1951, Cycle & Carriage was awarded the Mercedes-Benz franchise in Singapore, the first to carry the marque in Southeast Asia. Expansion and listing Cycle & Carriage launched plans to build an assembly plant in Hillview, Singapore. On 4 March 1965, the Minister for Finance (Singapore) Goh Keng Swee laid the foundation stone for the SG$2.5 million plant, and predicted that it would create 10,000 new jobs over the following five years. In 1969, the company