Deal #3907

Olam in Laos

2013-01-01

Documents OBL's incorporation as a subsidiary of Olam International.

Coffee colonialism: Olam plantation displaces Lao farmers

2012-06-04

Reports on the impacts of Olam's coffee plantations in local communities.

Olam plans arabica coffee expansion

2012-10-17

Reports Olam's plans on expansion of their coffee plantations.

Singaporean company invests in coffee plantation in Laos

2010-01-27

Provides information on OBL's coffee plantation in Laos.

Olam ploughs ahead with Asean expansion

2015-01-05

Suzy Waite

Gives details on Olam's plans to expand in the ASEAN region.

Problems for the plantations: Challenges for large-scale land concessions in Laos and Cambodia

2019-11-11

In this paper of Ian G. Baird discovered that previous CEO of Outspan reportedly gave a luxury vehicle and paid a large amount of money under the table to Lao government officials, who acted as land brokers for the company and helped to get operations started. However, they later found it difficult to resolve problems with villagers.