Established in 2002 in Telok Gong, Port Klang, Malaysia, Champ Fungi was founded by Teun Kampen and his wife Cindy Roe who recognized that there was an untapped market for mushrooms, when they found it challenging to source for a quality supply of fresh mushrooms, at a good value, in the local supermarkets.
The duo started to conduct extensive market research and identified the right technological intervention that can assist in initiating the commercialized production of mushrooms in Malaysia. The farm was built to originally supply fresh Button, Swiss Brown and Portabello mushrooms to Malaysian and Singapore market,
Now Champ Fungi’s farm has tapped the growing sea market with the focus on Malaysia and Singapore market for the past 5 years producing a diverse assortment of mushrooms. The company uses only the highest quality of raw materials such as compost and peat moss (imported from Holland). This coupled with proper environmentally-controlled conditions & systems and the Dutch state-of-the-art equipment allows Champ Fungi to enhance the already advanced growing techniques, ensuring consistency and superior mushroom quality.
Champ’s succulent mushrooms are sold to a large clientele of fresh market distributors, wholesalers for the hospitality market as well as to direct retailers. Champ Fungi is now able to deliver organic mushrooms daily due to their improved production cycle and systems.
One unique specialty of Champ Fungi is its focus on product knowledge within the organization. To maintain this focus, they hire an expert in each product line to serve and support their growing clientele.
Winning customer trust and to be regarded as the market leader in mushroom production and supply is part of Champ Fungi’s vision. In pursuit of this vision, Champ’s management has gone on to being certified to abide by “Good Agricultural Practice” by the Agricultural Dept. The firm has also passed the audit to be HACCP compliant by Lloyd’s Register.
To increase the choice of mushrooms to the ever-increasing appetite of the middle-class, Champ Fungi is working with a Korean partner in offering 8 different Korean mushrooms, bringing the total to 20 varieties, including the new Oyster mushrooms.
Champ Fungi is poised to keep growing and enhancing its systems and its produce to meet the ever changing needs of the consumer market.
