Dato Yau |Oriental Daily - 18 November 2016 - Road to success did not forget to contribute to the community


Unique vision helps brother identify property

Tan Sri Dato’ Danny Tan believes that he found a status that belongs to himself in property market. As compare with his brother, Tan Sri Dato Seri’ Vincent Tan who actively venture in variety business, he is more of the “property man”.

He always able to capitalize on the windows of opportunity and able to quick and sensitive in identify a potential property. For example, he helped his brother to negotiate the purchase of the prime land that eventually became Berjaya Times Square in Kuala Lumpur.

He said, initially the deal was a 50:50 venture between them but his brother then bought out his shares in Matrix International Bhd, which owns Berjaya Times Square.

Good leadership speed up the success of business

In the past 20 years, Tropicana Corp. Bhd. as one of the quality property developer in Malaysia has earned a solid status in the industry. The group is progressively achieving its vision and mission while it developing steadily.

The awards that won by Tan Sri Dato’ Danny Tan for the group includes the Diamond of Excellence Award at the Annual Tatler Ball 2014, Brandpreneur Life Inspired Achievement Award at Brand Laureate Special Edition Award World Awards 2015 and The Outstanding Property Personality Award 2015 at the Edge Property Excellence Awards 2015.

As for the corporate’s financial status, Tropicana Corp. Bhd. registered four times of income from RM 3.75bil in 2011 to RM 13.5bil in 2015. The group has total assets worth RM 6.9bil and total landbank of more than 1,300 acres with gross development value (GDV) of more than RM 50bil.

Currently, Tropicana Corp. Bhd. has 42 completed projects and 16 on-going developments in Malaysia. The prominence developments under the group are Tropicana Golf & Country Resort at Petaling Jaya, Tropicana Gardens at Kota Damansara, Tropicana Metropark at Subang Jaya, Tropicana Aman at Kota Kemuning, Tropicana The Residences at the heart of Kuala Lumpur, Tropicana Danga Bay at Iskandar Johor Bahru, Tropicana Bay Residences @ Penang World City and Tropicana 218 at Penang and Tropicana Landmark at Kota Kinabalu, Sabah.

Meanwhile, apart from property development, Tan Sri Dato’ Danny Tan also actively involves in the field of education, recreational and restaurant management, as well as entertainment industry.

On the road to success, not forgetting to return to society

“Tan Sri Dato’ Danny Tan believes a responsible entrepreneur should return to the society by giving help and assist the unfortunate to provide a better life to them.”

Due to his parent’s Buddhism belief, he is being taught to have a compassionate heart that lead him to many charitable works in nowadays.

In 2011, Tropicana Corp. Bhd. founded The Tropicana Foundation. It is a charitable foundation that designed to capture, coordinate and drive forward the group’s social responsibility activities that mainly focus on education and non-profit organization.

Beside, since young Tan Sri Dato’ Danny Tan’s parents paid full attention to his education. This allows him to fully understand the importance of customer concern in their children’s education or schooling places. Thus, earlier in 2014 Tropicana Corp. Bhd. had worked together with a few international schools to provide quality education to neighbourhood residents, which includes St. Joseph’s Institution International School at Tropicana Indah, GEMS International School at Tropicana Metropark and Tenby International School at Tropicana Aman.

Retired with good deeds, have faith in next generation

“I want people to remember that in order to achieve my dream and establish Tropicana Corp. Bhd., I put in huge amount of effort. What’s more important is that I want people to understand if you have the courage and determination in your own believes, success and fame will be achieved.”

Last year, Tan Sri Dato’ Danny Tan who was in his 60’s, decided to retire as Group Executive Vice Chairman from Tropicana Corp. Bhd. and hand over the day-to-day management to Group Chief Executive Officer (CEO) Datuk Yau Kok Seng and Deputy Group CEO Datuk Dickson Tan.
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“I have confidence and very satisfy with the team and the management style lead by Datuk Yau Kok Seng and Datuk Dickson Tan. I have to pass the baton to the new generation of leadership as I believe they will lead the group to achieve another milestone.”

Tan Sri Dato’ Danny Tan said, he has been planning his retirement in the past one to two years. He wants to do more charity work, corporate social responsibility and travelling.

He said, although he has reached the age of retirement, everyday he is still very hardworking to push himself to work harder. “I want people to remember that in order to achieve my dream and establish Tropicana Corp. Bhd., I put in huge amount of effort. What’s more important is that I want people to understand if you have the courage and determination in your own believes, success and fame will be achieved.”

1995 – 2015, Tropicana Corp. Bhd. milestone

1995 – Best Leisure Development Award 1995 from the Malaysian Chapter of the International Real Estate Federation (FIABCI)

2009 – Vila Green semi-dees received Best Residential Development 2009 with the highest five-star rating in Malaysia, Best Residential Development 2009 in Asia Pacific and Best Residential Development 2009 in the World by International Property Award in association with CNBC.

2010 – Tropicana Golf & Country Resort received Best Golf Development 2010 with the highest 5-star rating in Malaysia and Best Gold Development 2010 in Asia Pacific by International Property Awards in association with Bloomberg Television.

2013 – Tropicana was awarded the Super Excellend Brand Award 2013 in the Hall of Fame Category.

2014 – Tropicana won five awards in South East Asia Property Awards 2014.

Tropicana was awarded the Entrepreneur of the Year Award at the Asia Pacific Entrepreneurship Awards 2014 (APEA).

Tan Sri Dato’ Danny Tan was awarded the Diamond of Excellence Award at the Annual Tatler Ball 2014.

2015 – Tropicana was awarded the BCI Asia Top 10 Developers Award 2015.

Tropicana won the Brand Excellence for Best Property while Tan Sri Dato’ Danny Tan won the Brandpreneur Life Inspired Achievement Award in the BrandLaureate Special Edition World Wards 2015.

Tan Sri Dato’ Danny Tan picked up the Outstanding Property Personality Award 2015 at the Edge Property Excellence Awards 2015.

Tropicana was awarded as one of the Top 10 Developer Award by Property Insight at the Property Insight Prestigious Developer Awards 2015 (PIPDA).


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