Swire

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Swire Group
Company type
Industry Conglomerate
Founded1816;208 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 Swire, (Chairman, Swire Pacific)
Products Property, aviation, beverages, food chain, shipping, offshore support services, agriculture, manufacturing, wholesale and retail, mining etc.
RevenueIncrease2.svg £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

Contents

Website Swire.com

Notes

  1. 1 2 Gross floor area in respect of 100% of the properties excluding car park areas and not on an attributable basis.

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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/
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  6. "Tidewater adds 50 vessels to its fleet after taking over Singapore operator". 25 April 2022.
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  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

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