KUALA LUMPUR (Aug 13): Sime Darby Bhd seems to be in a good place. Following the demerger exercise in November 2017 that left the century-old company focused exclusively on its core trading business and saw its plantation and property businesses spin off into two separate companies — Sime Darby Plantation Bhd and Sime Darby Property Bhd — it has grown its net profit at a compound annual growth rate of 32% in the last three years.