Prime Minister Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim on 5 November 2026 opened Daiso's RM1.2 billion Global Distribution Centre at Taman Perindustrian Samudera, Pulau Indah, the Japanese retailer's largest warehouse in the world.
The building covers 133,666 sq m, Malay Mail reported, or about 1.44 million sq ft. Divide RM1.2 billion by that floor area and the investment comes to roughly RM834 psf. That is an all-in figure: no report we read splits it between land, building and the automated storage system.
The construction contract gives a partial answer. A joint venture of Kajima (Malaysia) Sdn Bhd and Sunway Construction Sdn Bhd won the RM595.38 million design-and-build job, and Sunway Construction's project page lists 132,448 sq m of gross floor area. That works out to about RM418 psf of floor, and to just under half of the RM1.2 billion. The reports do not break down the remaining RM604.62 million or so.
Some numbers have moved since the site ceremony. In April 2024 the project was reported at RM1 billion, for 22 countries and regions, with 9,317 outbound containers a year in future and operations from January 2027 (The Sun, carried by MIDA). The figures at the opening were RM1.2 billion, 27 countries and territories, and more than 4,600 outbound containers a year, EdgeProp reported. Anwar said the centre was finished ahead of schedule and below budget, Malay Mail reported. The reports do not explain how that squares with the higher figure, or why the container forecast is about half the earlier one.
On the ground, goods will be stored, sorted and repacked at Pulau Indah before shipping out, with space for more than 1,000 containers at any one time, Citizens Journal reported. Daiso also exchanged a memorandum with PKT Logistics (M) Sdn Bhd covering warehouse management and regional freight forwarding.
The same day, The Sun reported that Jaroses Partners had awarded a RM700 million Pulau Indah logistics warehouse contract to a Tanco-CNECC consortium.
No jobs figure was given. Anwar said port development should capture more of the value passing through rather than only volume, adding: “This is where the value and the skilled jobs will be located.” None of the reports said what the hub means for industrial rents or land values nearby.
Sources: Malay Mail, EdgeProp, New Straits Times, Citizens Journal, Sunway Construction, MIDA, April 2024, The Sun.
