Our Story

Our Story

An Honest Beginning

Our story started in the ’80s where our founders, husband and wife, began selling homemade egg rolls and pineapple tarts. These soon became popular with more and more orders coming in. Coupled with positive responses, a growing customer base and an optimistic outlook, our founders decided to form a food trading company.


Thus began the story of YLF. To meet the growing demand for our baked goods, we ventured into semi-auto production as well as launched our first commercial products under the brand name IKO – a range of healthy oat-based cookies. This was unprecedented as there was no other similar product in the market at that time.

We continued to delight our customers with more biscuit varieties and flavours. Soon it was time for another expansion and we invested in fully automated lines for mass production, joining the ranks of other top confectionary companies, and producing delicious biscuits made from quality ingredients as well as exporting them to other countries.

We were the first in Malaysia to introduce sugar-free crackers, and new flavours like jam sandwich biscuits and jam tartlet cookies as well as all-time favourites under our brand ORI. We also launched Twinbow, our baked-to-order series. Twinbow was in fact the brand name our founders first used to sell their festive handmade cookies.


At YLF, we take our biscuits seriously. For years we have tinkered and toyed with countless recipes to create the perfect biscuit that is delicious and nutritious. Today, people in over 30 countries around the world enjoy our biscuits. Despite our success locally and internationally, we consistently sought to improve and add value to our products, all while continuing to be inspired by our founders’ entrepreneurship spirit fueled by creativity and dedication for quality. It is what we believe in – good food is life.

Our Vision

To be an innovator in the food industry.

Our Mission

To produce good products with consistent quality.

Timeline

1987
August 5

1987

Our food trading business is born.
1990
August 13

1990

Ventured into biscuit manufacturing business.
1993
August 13

1993

Moved into a humble premise in Puchong to accommodate the growing business.
1994
August 13

1994 – 2000

Launched our popular biscuit ranges under the brand names of ORI and IKO.
2000
August 13

2000

Moved to a bigger factory with three times the capacity of our existing factory and fitted with semi-automated production lines.
2008
August 13

2008

Moved to our current factory equipped with fully automated production lines.
2020
August 13

2020

Reintroduced Twinbow, a baked-to-order brand selling premium handmade cookies.