The story
Kart's was founded by a Malay couple, on 26 November 1983 and began commercial in 1988, who then sold their business to a German conglomerate Dr. Oetker in 1998. Rudolf August Oetker made a substantial investment by upgrading the factory and operations as well as introducing a food standard on the brand that was internationally accepted in food manufacturing. In 2002, Oetker sold the company to Amtek Berhad, a listed company in Bursa Malaysia. Kart's was then owned by Meriah Saujana and in June 2010, Kart Food Industries became a 45%-associate of FFM SMI Sdn Bhd, a wholly owned subsidiary of FFM Berhad. Although the ownership of the company was continuously being changed, the original company name still has been kept until this day, as it borrowed the name of the wife of the founder, 'Kartini' who was instrumental in creating Kart's roti canai (a Malaysian hand tossed layered flatbread). It had export products to Brunei, Singapore as well Canada, United States, Australia, South Africa, and now into Vietnam, France, Indonesia, Myanmar, United Kingdom, United Arab Emirates and Ireland.
From Wikipedia’s article on Kart's, shared under CC BY-SA 4.0.4