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Swire Group (Chinese: 太古集團) is a highly diversified global conglomerate with its parent company being John Swire & Sons Limited that holds controlling stakes in a range of businesses trading in the UK, USA, Australia, Papua New Guinea, East and West Africa, and across Southeast Asia. The Group's businesses are arranged into groups ...
James Wyndham John Hughes-Hallett, CMG, SBS (10 September 1949 – 12 October 2019) was a British businessman and investor. [1] He was Chairman of the Swire Group between 2005 and 2015.
Swire Properties Limited (Chinese: 太古地產) is a property developer, owner and operator of mixed-use, principally commercial properties in Hong Kong and Mainland China. Founded and headquartered in Hong Kong in 1972, Swire Properties is a property developer in Hong Kong , and is listed on the Stock Exchange of Hong Kong .
Samuel Compton Swire was born in March 1980. [4] His late father, Sir Adrian Swire, was a billionaire heir and former chairman of the Swire Group. His mother is Lady Judith Compton. He has a brother, Merlin Swire. [4] He graduated from University College, Oxford in 2003, where he studied history. [5]
The China Navigation Company Limited (CNCo) is a London-based holding company of merchant shipping companies Swire Shipping Pte Ltd and Swire Bulk Pte Ltd, both of which are headquartered in Singapore. [1] [2] [3] The Swire flag is also the house flag of CNCo. CNCo is part of the Swire group and wholly owned by John Swire & Sons Limited.
The company was founded by the Swire Group in 1990. [1] It absorbed some of the businesses held by Swire's other trading arm, Swire Loxley. Swire Loxley was later sold, in 2000, to Dah Chong Hong. [2] In 1984, Swire Loxley had purchased Marathon Sports, a local Hong Kong sports store founded in the 1970s. [3] This chain was transferred to Swire ...
He served in the British Army (Rifle Brigade (Prince Consort's Own)) from 1943 to 1947, and read law at Oxford before joining Swire in 1949, where he was a senior member of staff in John Swire and Sons (Hong Kong) (Swire Group) and held various positions on corporate boards: [3] Chairman, Swire Pacific Limited 1973–1980
Swire Hotels is a division of Swire Properties Limited, a subsidiary of Swire Pacific Limited, a blue chip company quoted on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange. Swire Hotels was formed in 2008 to create and manage small luxury hotels in Hong Kong and Mainland China. It manages two hotel brands – the "House Collective" and EAST. [1]