Swire

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Swire Group

Hong Kong headquarters at One Pacific Place
Company type	Private company limited by shares (John Swire & Sons Limited) Public (Swire Pacific Limited)
Traded as	Swire Pacific Limited: SEHK:  19 (A-shares) SEHK:  87 (B-shares) Hang Seng component (19)
Industry	Conglomerate
Founded	1816;209 years ago (1816)
Headquarters	One Pacific Place, Hong Kong (Operational HQ) London (Registered HQ) (Hong Kong but with registered office in London for John Swire & Sons Limited (UK) and some other related entities and subsidiaries)
Key people	Barnaby Swire, Chairman, John Swire & Sons Limited, Merlin Bingham Swire, (Chairman, Swire Pacific)
Products	Property, aviation, beverages, food chain, shipping, offshore support services, agriculture, manufacturing, wholesale and retail, mining etc.
Revenue	£12.08 billion (2021) [1] US$16.3 billion
Number of employees	100,000+ [2]
Subsidiaries	Swire Pacific Steamships Trading Company Swire Beverages Swire Shipping Swire Resources Swire Foods
Website	Swire.com

• London portal
• Companies portal

• List of bottling companies
• List of oilfield service companies

Notes

1. Gross floor area in respect of 100% of the properties excluding car park areas and not on an attributable basis.

References

1. https://find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk/company/00133143/filing-history. Retrieved 13 November 2022.
2. "Swire About Us". Swire Group. Archived from the original on 2 July 2019. Retrieved 13 November 2022.
3. The Archives of John Swire & Sons are held at the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), London. http://www.soas.ac.uk/library/archives/
4. The archives of John Swire & Sons Ltd are held at the School of Oriental and African Studies, London, http://www.soas.ac.uk/library/archives/
5. "Annual Report 2008" (PDF). Swire. p. 39. Archived from the original (PDF) on 29 September 2011. Retrieved 4 October 2009.
6. "Tidewater adds 50 vessels to its fleet after taking over Singapore operator". 25 April 2022.
7. "The Official Website of Swire Pacific". swirepacific.com. Retrieved 20 April 2012.
8. "Hong Kong govt takes stake in Cathay Pacific though $7bn rescue". executivetraveller.com. 9 June 2020. Retrieved 9 June 2020.
9. "The Official Website of Swire Properties". Swireproperties.com. Archived from the original on 26 February 2009. Retrieved 20 April 2012.
10. "Pacific Place Hong Kong". Pacificplace.com.hk. Retrieved 20 April 2012.
11. "Island East". Island East. 29 June 2010. Archived from the original on 10 January 2014. Retrieved 20 April 2012.
12. "Future Developments". Swire Properties. Archived from the original on 11 February 2014. Retrieved 20 April 2012.
13. "Sanlitun Village Shopping & Life Style Centre". Sanlitunvillage.com. Archived from the original on 21 April 2012. Retrieved 20 April 2012.
14. "Boutique Luxury Hotel – Beijing". The Opposite House. Retrieved 20 April 2012.
15. "Home page". swirehotels.com. Retrieved 20 April 2012.
16. "Who We Are". Argent Energy. Retrieved 28 March 2018.
17. Swire buys Coca-Cola bottlers in Vietnam, Cambodia for $1bn
18. "Beverages & Food Chain". Swire. Retrieved 23 March 2023.
19. Dvorak, Joanne Chiu And Phred (17 August 2014). "Swire Pacific Grooms Talent for the Long Term". Wall Street Journal. ISSN   0099-9660 . Retrieved 28 December 2020.

Further reading

• Bickers, Robert (5 March 2020). China Bound: John Swire & Sons and Its World, 1816 – 1980. Bloomsbury Publishing. ISBN   978-1-4729-4995-0.
• Jones, Geoffrey; Zeitlin, Jonathan (24 January 2008). The Oxford Handbook of Business History. OUP Oxford. ISBN   978-0-19-926368-4.

External links

• Official website

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Simplified Chinese	太古集团
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Transcriptions Standard Mandarin Hanyu Pinyin Tàigǔ Jítuán Yue: Cantonese Jyutping taai3 gu2 zaap6 tyun4

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