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Watsons (Chinese: 屈臣氏; Jyutping: Wat 1 san 4 si 6) is a Hong Kong health care and beauty care chain store in Asia and Europe. It is the flagship health and beauty brand of AS Watson , which is majority owned by CK Hutchison Holdings .
In 1869, the Hong Kong Dispensary was appointed to dispense to the Governor of Hong Kong and the Duke of Edinburgh. The company began trading under the name A.S. Watson & Company in 1871. By 1886, the company had constructed its first factory in Hong Kong, on Stanley Street , registered as a limited company and had also completed its first ...
On May 18, 2021, Letep Ahmet, a director of the Japan Uyghur Association , commented during a discussion at the Hong Kong International Solidarity Campaign and Milk Tea Alliance event regarding the phrase "Today Hong Kong, Tomorrow Taiwan, the Day After Tomorrow Okinawa," stating, "A regime that has detained and tortured millions of people and ...
Taste is a chain supermarket in Hong Kong owned by AS Watson, a wholly owned subsidiary of Hutchison Whampoa Limited. It opened its first branch in Festival Walk, Kowloon Tong in 2004, but most of the branches are opened based on the re-decoration of Park'n Shop, Taste's sister company. [1] Its main customers are middle-class families.
ParknShop operates more than 200 outlets in Hong Kong, Macau and mainland China. The first ParknShop store opened in Stanley, Hong Kong in 1973. For a decade the store remained a local retailer until the mid-1980s when it began to expand outside Hong Kong. ParknShop is a member of the AS Watson Group, a subsidiary of CK Hutchison Holdings Limited.
Gourmet is a supermarket in Hong Kong owned by AS Watson, a wholly owned subsidiary of Hutchison Whampoa Limited. [1] [2] Its main customers are middle-class families. Its retail products are similar to those in ParknShop and Taste. There are now stores in the basement level of Lee Tung Avenue, at 88 Caine Road, and in Lab Concept in Admiralty.
In 1965, Hutchison International under the leadership of Sir Douglas Clague gained a controlling interest of Hong Kong and Whampoa Dock. He pursued an aggressive path of diversification, acquiring A.S. Watson, Davie, Boag and Co. Ltd., Hong Kong and Whampoa Dock Co. Ltd., and China Provident Co. Ltd. A decade later, however, the conglomerate ...
Its Hong Kong–based distribution business, Sims Trading, was sold to CITIC Pacific. In June 2002, the 61-store Woolworths chain in New Zealand acquired in 1990, was sold for US$337 million. In 2004, the Group's Hong Kong ice manufacturing business which began in 1918 was sold for US$107 million.