Hutchison Whampoa Limited (HWL) was an investment holding company based in Hong Kong. It was a Fortune Global 500 company and one of the largest companies listed on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange. HWL was an international corporation with a diverse array of holdings which included the world's biggest port, and telecommunication operations in 14 countries that were run under the 3 brand. Its businesses also included retail, property development and infrastructure.
Gianni Versace S.r.l. usually referred to simply as Versace, is an Italian luxury fashion company and trade name founded by Gianni Versace in 1978. The main collection of the brand is Versace, which produces upmarket Italian-made ready-to-wear and leather accessories, while other diffusion lines are Versace Collection, Versus Versace and Versace Jeans. The Versace logo is the head of Medusa, a Greek mythological figure. The logo came from the floor of ruins in the area of Reggio Calabria that the Versace siblings played in as children. Gianni Versace chose Medusa as the logo because she made people fall in love with her and they had no way back. He hoped his company would have the same effect on people.
Peter Woo Kwong-ching, GBM, GBS, JP is a Hong Kong billionaire businessman. He was the chairman of Wheelock and Company Limited and The Wharf Holdings Limited until 19 May 2015. As of May 2017, his net worth is estimated to be $10.5 billion.
Lane Crawford is a retail company with speciality stores selling luxury goods in Hong Kong and China.
Esprit Holdings Limited is a publicly owned manufacturer of clothing, footwear, accessories, jewellery and housewares under the Esprit label. The company is headquartered in Kowloon, Hong Kong, and Ratingen, Germany. In the 2007–2008 business year, Esprit generated a worldwide sales of around €3.25 billion. Esprit operates more than 900 retail stores worldwide and distributes products to more than 8,500 wholesale locations around the globe. Esprit has more than 1.1 million square meters of retail space in 40 countries.
The Wharf (Holdings) Limited, or Wharf (九倉) in short, is a company founded in 1886 in Hong Kong. As its name suggests, the company's original business was in running wharfage and dockside warehousing, and it was originally known as The Hong Kong and Kowloon Wharf and Godown Company, Limited and founded by Sir Paul Chater. The company adopted its current name in 1986. The current major holder of the company is Wheelock & Co.
Chow Tai Fook group is a Hong Kong based privately owned conglomerate that engaged in the jewellery, property development, hotel, department store, transportation, energy, telecommunications, port, casino and other businesses. Despite the holding companies of the group, namely Chow Tai Fook Capital Limited, Chow Tai Fook (Holding) Limited, Chow Tai Fook Enterprises Limited and etc. were privately owned, the group was partly floated in the public, via associate company New World Development and subsidiary Chow Tai Fook Jewellery Group Limited. As of 31 December 2018, New World Development was ranked as the 47th largest companies of the Stock Exchange of Hong Kong by market capitalization, which was HK$105.68061 billion.
Sir Yue-Kong (Y.K.) Pao CBE JP, was the founder of Hong Kong's World-Wide Shipping Group which in the 20 years from purchasing its first second-hand ship in 1955 became by far the largest shipping company in the world with over 20 million tonnes deadweight (DWT). Anticipating the seriousness of the shipping downturn starting in the late 1970s he drastically reduced his fleet and was able to pay off associated debt and raise cash to diversify his interests notably through the purchase of a controlling stake in The Hongkong and Kowloon Wharf and Godown Company Limited and later Wheelock Marden giving an exposure to Hong Kong real estate, shipping terminals, retail, ferries and trams. He was noted for his unmatched access to leaders in both the commercial and political arenas and was equally at ease with Western political leaders and the Chinese leadership in the run up to Hong Kong's ceasing to be a British colony in 1997. He was also a generous philanthropist notably in educational projects. He died in 1991 but his corporate legacy continues to be controlled and run by his family.
Hutchison Asia Telecom Group or HAT, is a division of Hong Kong-based multinational conglomerate CK Hutchison Holdings The division provides telecommunications services to several Asian countries. The division was formerly incorporated as Hutchison Telecommunications International Limited, known as Hutchison Telecom or HTIL in short. It was an offshore company in the Cayman Islands and a listed company in the Stock Exchange of Hong Kong. It operates GSM, 3G and 4G mobile telecommunications services in Indonesia, Sri Lanka and Vietnam under brands 3, Hutch and Vietnamobile.
Eu Yan Sang is a company that specialises in traditional Chinese medicine(TCM). It currently runs more than 230 retail outlets in Hong Kong, Macau, China, Malaysia, Singapore, and Australia, plus four factories in Hong Kong and Malaysia. The group also operates around 30 TCM clinics in Malaysia,Singapore and Hong Kong.
Wheelock and Company Limited is a Hong Kong-based financial real estate company. It was listed as #1249 on the Forbes 2000 list.
Stephen Ng Tin-hoi (Chinese:吳天海) is a Hong Kong entrepreneur, who is the Chairman and the Managing Director of the Wharf (Holdings) Limited. He is the chairman and chief executive officer of i-Cable Communications. He is also the deputy chairman of Wheelock & Co, the chairman and chief executive officer of Wharf T&T, the chairman of Joyce Boutique, Modern Terminals and Harbour Centre Development.
Ports is a luxury fashion house that was founded by Canadian fashion designer Luke Tanabe (1920–2009) in Toronto in 1961. It specializes in luxury ready-to-wear and accessories for men and women. Operating under the company Ports International at its height, it continues under various business structures as Ports International, Ports 1961, Ports Hong Kong, and the Hong Kong-based headquarters of its holding company Ports Design, Ltd.
Greentown China Holdings Limited, is a leading property developer and integrated living service provider in China. Backed by the full support of state-owned enterprise CCCG and Hong Kong blue-chip enterprise Wharf, together with founding shareholder Song Weiping and other substantial shareholders, Greentown China has adhered to the Company’s strategy of “Balancing the Development of Light and Heavy Assets” and insisted on taking advantage of the practice of mixed ownership, evolving to engage in the businesses of property development, town development, construction management, asset operation and living services. It maintains a leading position in the industry with high construction quality and excellent living services and strives to be the No.1 “Integrated Service Provider for an Ideal Life” in the country. With focuses on the first-tier and second-tier cities as well as quality third-tier and fourth-tier cities, Greentown China’s scope of business currently covers more than 20 provinces, autonomous regions and municipalities. It has presence in over 100 cities, having constructed more than 500 exquisite property complexes.
Springland International Holdings Ltd is a Chinese retail company traded on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange. Springland International is predominantly a retail chain operator in the Yangtze River Delta. It operates department stores and supermarkets.
Furla is an Italian luxury company that was created by the Furlanetto family in 1927. The company is currently a limited liability company, still owned by the Furlanetto family. Furla features Italian-designed products that range from handbags and shoes to accessories. Its headquarters are located in Bologna, in a historic 18th century villa; joao victor Furlanetto has 5 subsidiaries in USA, France, Japan, China, and Korea.
Eddie Lau Pui-Kei is a fashion designer in Hong Kong. Lau has worked in the fashion industry since 1962 until his retirement in 1999, but he has never left his profession up to now. He was at the peak of his career in the 1980s, when he designed haute couture and stage costumes for the celebrities, such as Eunice Lam(林燕妮), Bak Sheut-sin(白雪仙), Liza Wang(汪明荃), Michelle Yeoh(楊紫瓊), Anita Mui(梅艷芳). Lau was also employed to design uniforms for international brands – Cathay Pacific Airways Limited, Hong Kong Dragon Airlines Limited (2013) and gained much recognition. He is the first fashion designer whose works have become a focus of the Hong Kong Heritage Museum's collection In 2013, the Hong Kong Heritage Museum held an exhibition of Lau, named '他Fashion傳奇Eddie Lau‧她Image百變‧劉培基' and his autobiography Clair de Lune (《舉頭望明月．劉培基自傳》) was released in the same year.
Capri Holdings Limited is a multinational fashion company, incorporated in the British Virgin Islands, with principal executive offices in London and operational headquarters in New York. It was started in 1981 by American designer Michael Kors. The company sells clothes, shoes, watches, handbags, and other accessories. Michael Kors handbags have been a popular fashion trend among teenaged girls, according to a 2015 survey. In 2015, Michael Kors had more than 550 stores and over 1500 in-store boutiques in various countries.
Adrian Cheng Chi-kong is a Hong Kong businessman. He is the executive vice-chairman and general manager of the Hong Kong-listed New World Development, executive director of jewellery company Chow Tai Fook, and founder of the K11 brand. Cheng has been on the 40 under 40 list by Fortune, and in 2017, he was awarded the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres.
WWE & Company is a fashion, beauty and lifestyle technology company specialising in the development of mobile, cloud-based, O2O commerce enterprise technologies, targeting the mainland Chinese consumers. WWE is a joint venture between The Wharf (Holdings) Limited, Walton Brown Group, and eCargo Holdings Limited (ASX:ECG), initially capitalised at RMB 300 million. WWE & Company was founded and led by Thomson Cheng, President of Walton Brown, and Christopher Lau, CEO and Founder of ECG, as co-CEOs in Hong Kong.
