company background

The Giant store was a simple grocery store grocery store in one of the suburbs of Kuala Lumpur. It was founded by the Teng family in year 1944. Giant Hypermarket is owned by Giant Capital Holdings (GCH) and it is one of the largest hypermarkets in Malaysia. It's headquarter is located at Shah Alam, Selagor. Meanwhile Sabah-Sarawak-Brunei Regional headquarter is located in Kolombong Outlet, Kota Kinabalu. The first Giant Hypermarket store was opened in Shah Alam, Selangor in 1999. The company had grown to operate a total of 86 hypermarkets in Malaysia with its outlet size ranging from the 350,000 square feet (33,000 m2) hypermarket in Shah Alam to the 11,000 square feet (1,000 m2) supermarket in Bangsar, Kuala Lumpur in 2006. Apart from this, the chain also includes 6 stores in Singapore and 17 hypermarkets in Indonesia. Giant hypermarkets offer a wide range of local merchandise, such as fresh local fruits, vegetables, and seafood within a wet market environment. The key people to the success of Giant Hypermarket are the owner itself who is Teng Family themselves, and Dato' John Coyle which is the CEO of this company