Thakral Brothers Limited is incorporated in Osaka, Japan to facilitate the purchasing of textiles in Japan.

Thakral Brothers Limited also becomes the purchasing office for consumer electronics products in Japan.

First representative office is set up in Guangzhou, PRC.

Thakral Corporation (HK) Limited is incorporated and it takes over Thakral Hong Kong's business in 1993.

The Group diversifies into manufacturing and sale of consumer
electronic products in the PRC through the establishment of
Shanghai Thakral.

Thakral Corporation Singapore Pte Ltd is converted to a public company and the name is changed to Thakral Corporation Singapore Limited in August. Subsequently, it undergoes a further name change to Thakral Corporation Ltd ("the Company") in November.

Mr Inderbethal Singh Thakral is appointed as Executive Director of the Company.

A representative office is set up in Chengdu, PRC.

Chengdu Thakral Electronics Industrial Corpn. Ltd opens a new four-storey factory and commences production of colour television sets in Chengdu, PRC under the Thakral brand.

The Company acquires a 19.5% equity stake in Gateway Distriparks Limited ("GDL") and subsequently increases its equity stake to 24.5%. GDL is a joint venture company set up to provide port related logistics support services in India including operation of container freight stations, container transportation and general and bonded warehousing.

The Company acquires a 25% stake in First Capital Property Ventures Pte Ltd ("FCPV"). FCPV has a 40% stake in Gurgaon Technology Park Limited, a joint venture company set up to develop a technology park in Gurgaon, Haryana State, India.

The Company makes a bonus issue of 53,181,514 of new ordinary shares.

The Company, together with Thakral Holdings Limited, acquires a 50% stake in HY Hotels Units Trust (subsequently renamed to Pacific Century Hotels Unit Trust) and HY Hotels Pty Limited (subsequently renamed to Pacific Century Hotels Pty Limited), for the purpose of purchasing Westend Hotel and Crown Street Hotel in Sydney, Australia.

The Company is granted Operational Headquarters status by the Singapore Economic Development Board with effect from 1 April 1996 for a period of 5 years.

The Company acquires Hilton on the Park Hotel in Melbourne through its 50% jointly controlled trust with Thakral Holdings Ltd.

The Company acquires a new Hong Kong incorporated subsidiary for the purpose of distributing home entertainment software such as VCDs, DVDs and CD-ROMs, and changes the subsidiary's name to Thakral Home Entertainment Limited.

A new subsidiary is established in Guangzhou for the purpose of research and development into all kinds of consumer electronics products such as optical disc players and personal computers, as well as to manufacture and sell related parts.

The Company and LSI Logic Corporation form a strategic alliance to co-develop the first Digital Video Disk (DVD) player manufacturing kit specifically optimized for the requirements of the Chinese consumer market.

The Company converts its listing currency from USD to SGD and begins trading its shares in SGD on 1 December 1998.

The Company receives trustee stock status from the Central Provident Fund Board Singapore effective 1 December 1998.

The Company increases its effective stake in Wujiang Dafa Real Estate Development Co Ltd from 45% to 55%, making it a subsidiary.

The Company divests its stake in Pacific Century Hotels Unit Trust.

Mr Natarajan Subramaniam is appointed as the Vice-Chairman of the Board.

A wholly-owned subsidiary, Digital Info Technology Pte. Ltd., is incorporated in Singapore for the purpose of business development and marketing of digital video recorder cards and innovative digital lifestyle products.

The Company enters into a subscription agreement in February 2005 with China Yuchai International Limited ("CYI"), a subsidiary of Hong Leong Asia Ltd, whereby CYI agrees to subscribe for 264,000,000 new capital of the Company, representing approximately 14.99% of the Company's resultant enlarged issue share capital. These are allotted in March 2005 to Venture Delta Limited, a wholly-owned subsidiary of CYI. Consequently, Hong Leong nominees, Messrs Wong Hong Ren, Teo Tong Kooi and Neo Teck Pheng, are appointed as Non-Executive Directors of the Company. Mr Ting Sii Tien @ Yao Sik Tien is appointed as Alternate Director to Mr Teo Tong Kooi.

The Group shifts its operational headquarters in August to Shanghai from Hong Kong in order to be closer to its biggest market.

The Company's subsidiary, Shanghai Detian Electronics Trading Co., Ltd, and Panasonic Corporation of China, sign a contract to distribute digital still cameras, digital video cameras and other associated products in China.

Gateway Distriparks Limited, a long term investment of the Group, is successfully listed on the Stock Exchange in Mumbai, India and the National Stock Exchange of India Limited on 31 March 2005.

The Company increases its stake in the capital of First Capital Property Ventures Pte Ltd from 25% to 32.5%.

Babcock & Brown, a global investment and advisory firm listed on the ASX, takes a substantial shareholding of 9.5% in the Company.

Babcock & Brown nominee Mr Andrew James Schwartz is appointed as a Non-Executive Director of the Company, and Mr Eytan Uliel is appointed as an Alternate Director to Mr Schwartz.

Mr Sanjib Sengupta is appointed as the Chief Financial Officer of the Company.

Mr Lau Keng Fai, Patrick is appointed as the Group Internal Auditor of the Company.

On 30 November 2007, the Company redeemed all its convertible bonds outstanding as at that date, ahead of the original due date in February 2009. The aggregate principal amount of Bonds redeemed and cancelled by the Company was about S$426,000 and the total redemption amount (inclusive of interest) paid in respect of such Bonds was about S$429,000.

Mr Ting Sii Tien @ Yao Sik Tien is appointed as a member of the Compensation Committee of the Company. Mr Teo Tong Kooi is appointed as an alternate to Mr Ting on the Compensation Committee and therefore ceased to be a Compensation Committee member.

Mr Heng Chiang Meng retired at the conclusion of the Company's 16th Annual General Meeting.

Mr Pratap Chinnan Nambiar is appointed as an Independent Director of the Company and a member of the Company's Audit Committee and Nomination Committees.

Mr Lee Ying Cheun is appointed as the Chairman of the Company's Compensation Committee.

Mr Inderbethal Singh Thakral is re-designated as Managing Director, Distribution Business of the Group.

The Company announced a proposed capital reduction and cash distibution of S$0.05 per share on 1 December 2009. The proposed capital reduction and cash distribution exercise is subject to approval of the Shareholders and High Court of Singapore.

The Company announced that the Board has resolved not to proceed with the proposed business diversification announced in May 2008.

The Group entered into two more real estate investment projects in Australia, Australia Towers and Emerant Lane, both in Sydney. A total cash investment of about A$7.5 million has been made for the three real estate investment projects from October 2010 to August 2011.

A 51% owned subsidiary in Singapore, TCAP Pte Ltd was established for the purpose of acting as an intermediary and service entity which originates, negotiates and packages primarily real estate and incidental resource projects.

An indirect subsidiary, TCAP Australia Pty Ltd was incorporated in Australia in June for the purpose of originating, execution and management of investment opportunities in Australia.

The Group, through its indirect subsidiary, has entered into agreements with GLNG Operations Pty Ltd, the agent for the GLNG Joint Venture in Australia, to acquire the land currently owned or held under options by GLNG and to build 45 houses for lease to GLNG.

The Company established an Investment Committee ("IC") comprising Mr Natarajan Subramaniam (Chairman of the IC), Mr Kartar Singh Thakral and Mr Jaginder Singh Pasricha on 3 November 2011.

The Group, through its wholly-owned subsidiary, Thakral Pan Asia Property Holdings Pte Ltd, completed acquisition of a 99.99% interest in Singapore Sourcing & Technology Private Limited, India in October for the purposes of sourcing of materials, provision of value added services and corporate sales of consumer electronics products.

The Group received payback for its first real estate investment project - Harbour One, Melbourne in December.

The Investment Division invested in an eighth project - Union Balmain in Rozelle, Sydney, Australia which comprised 202 apartments and retail/commercial space with total sales value of about A$200 million.

The Group's investment in residential project in West End, Brisbane, branded Vida, has been expanded by the developer acquiring the adjoining site. The Group has supported the developer to make the acquisition. Vida will comprise 150 apartments and some retail space, and is expected to have a sales value of about A$100 million.

TCAPA has established a small fund, TCAP Capital Partners Fund No. 1 which raised A$5 million.

Mr Bikramjit Singh Thakral is appointed as an Alternate Director to Mr Kartar Singh Thakral.

Mr Sanjib Sengutpa ceased to be the Chief Financial Officer of the Company.

Mr Anil Moolchand Daryanani is appointed as the Chief Financial Officer of the Company.

The Company's subsidiaries - Hanbest Limited, Thakral Pan Asia Property Holdings Pte. Ltd. and TCAP Australia Pty. Ltd. changed their names to Thakral Capital Investments Limited, Thakral Capital Holdings Pte. Ltd. and Thakral Capital Australia Pty Ltd respectively.

Mr Jasvinder Singh Thakral, an Executive Director of the Company, passed away on 8 December 2013.

Mr Dileep Nair is appointed as an Independent Non-Executive Director and a member of the Audit and Compensation Committees of the Company on 2 January 2015.

Mr Ting Sii Tien @ Yao Sik Tien resigned as a Non-Executive Director of the Company and cease to be a member of the Compensation Committee of the Company on 2 January 2015.

The Company completed consolidation of every 20 existing issued ordinary shares in the capital of the Company held by shareholders into 1 ordinary share effective 11 May 2015. The issued share capital of the Company comprised 130,860,616 Consolidated Shares upon completion of the consolidation.

The Company has on 30 June 2015 completed the proposed acquisition of 49% of the issued and paid-up capital of TCAP Pte. Ltd. ("TCAP") by Thakral Capital Holdings Pte. Ltd. ("TCH") and the proposed dilution of up to 25% of the Company's shareholding interest in TCH, a principal subsidiary of the Company, resulting from the issuance of new shares in TCH pursuant to the completion of the proposed acquisition of TCAP.

The Group to finance up to A$32.2 million in a luxury residential development known as Newstead Series in Brisbane, Australia.

The Group has on 6 August 2015 through its wholly-owned subsidiary in Australia, TCAP Partners Pty Ltd ("TCAPP") formed 4 joint venture companies with PVAP Pty Ltd ("PVAP"), an independent and unrelated third party on the basis of 50:50 equity participation to co-invest and manage retirement community resorts. They are namely GTH Resorts Pty Ltd ("GTH Resorts"), GTH Resorts 1 Pty Ltd, GTH Resorts 2 Pty Ltd and GTH Resorts 3 Pty Ltd. GTH Resorts is trustee of a unit trust, the units in which are held equally by PVAP and TCAPP.

Thakral, though its JV with PVAP has signed a contract through GTH Resorts in August to acquire a 8.46-ha site at Kratzke Road, Highfields in Queensland for A$6.25 million to develop resort style village for over 50s living under the brand "Living Gems - A Thakral Joint Venture". The Highfields Toowoomba site is the first of several sites to be acquired by GTH Resorts in South East Queensland. The Thakral PVAP joint venture intends to acquire further sites in South East Queensland and Northern New South Wales with a view to develop more than 1,000 homes for over 50s living resorts before expanding into other major cities and regions in Australia.

TCAP Investments Limited and Thakral Capital Australia Pty Ltd ("TCAP") have signed documents establishing a bespoke investment programme called the TCAP Australian Mezzanine Programme (the "Programme") with Aberdeen Asset Management Asia Limited ("Aberdeen"). Aberdeen, on behalf of its property multi-manager products has committed substantial funds to the Programme. The Programme will invest in real estate projects in Australia with a focus on eastern seaboard markets - in particular Sydney, Melbourne and Brisbane.

Mr Pratap Chinnan Nambiar resigned as an Independent Non-Executive Director of the Company and ceased to be a member of the Audit and Nomination Committees of the Company on 31 December 2015.