Swire
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Industry | The China Navigation Company, Swire Resources, Swire Foods |
Website | Swire.com |
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Traditional Chinese | 太古集團 | |||||||||
Simplified Chinese | 太古集团 | |||||||||
Jyutping | taai3 gu2 zaap6 tyun4 | |||||||||
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Swire Group (
History
The Swire Group's privately owned parent company is London-based John Swire & Sons Limited.[3] The Swire Group, started by John Swire (1787–1847) in 1816, had its beginnings as a modest Liverpool import-export company based mainly on the textile trade.[4]
Businesses
The Swire Group's core businesses in Hong Kong are held by Swire Pacific Limited, listed on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange.[5] The Group's businesses are arranged into groups: property, aviation, beverages and food chain, marine services, and trading and industrial.
Cathay Pacific Airways Ltd. (CPA)
In 1948, Swire Pacific acquired Cathay Pacific, Hong Kong's largest airline, and remains as the largest shareholder, with 42%.[6]
Swire Properties
Incorporated in 1972,
Swire Pacific Offshore Holdings Limited (SPO)
Swire Pacific Offshore Holdings Limited (SPO), was a wholly owned subsidiary of Swire Pacific, supplying chartered vessels that supported the offshore oil and gas industry worldwide. It owned a fleet of 69 offshore vessels.[14]
Tidewater entered into a definitive agreement to acquire all of the outstanding shares of Swire Pacific Offshore (SPO), a subsidiary of Swire Pacific Limited, for approximately $190 million in early March 2022. Tidewater announced the completion of its acquisition of Swire Pacific Offshore on Friday 22 April 2022.[15]
The China Navigation Company is the deep-sea shipping arm of John Swire & Sons Ltd.
John Swire and Sons (Green Investments) Ltd
John Swire & Sons (Green Investments) Ltd has acquired Scottish biodiesel producer Argent Energy. Argent Energy pioneered large scale commercial biodiesel production in the UK when it started production at its plant near Motherwell in Scotland in 2005.[16] The firm makes its road fuel by recycling wastes and residues from other industries – specifically used cooking oil which is a waste from the food industry, tallow from the meat industry, and sewer grease.
Swire Coca-Cola
Swire is an anchor bottler in the Coca-Cola System. It is the bottler of Coca-Cola and its related products in 11 provinces and the Shanghai Municipality in Mainland China, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Cambodia, Vietnam, and 13 states in the western USA.[17] This territory represents a population of 780 million people.[18]
Chairmen
Chairmen of Swire Pacific
Swire Pacific was formed in 1974 (from Taikoo Swire) to become the main holding company for Swire's Hong Kong-based assets.
- John Bremridge, 1974–1980
- Duncan Bluck, 1981–1984
- Michael Miles, 1984–1988
- David Gledhill, 1988–1992
- Peter Sutch, 1992–1999
- James Hughes-Hallett, 1999–2004
- David Turnbull, 2005–2006
- Christopher Pratt, 2006–2014
- John Slosar, 2014–2018 (First non-British citizen as chairman)[19]
- Merlin Swire, 2018–2021 (First Swire family chairman)
- Guy Bradley, 2021–
See also
Notes
References
- ^ https://find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk/company/00133143/filing-history. Retrieved 13 November 2022.
- ^ "Swire About Us". Swire Group. Archived from the original on 2 July 2019. Retrieved 13 November 2022.
- ^ 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/
- School of Oriental and African Studies, London, http://www.soas.ac.uk/library/archives/
- ^ "The Official Website of Swire Pacific". swirepacific.com. Retrieved 20 April 2012.
- ^ "Hong Kong govt takes stake in Cathay Pacific though $7bn rescue". executivetraveller.com. 9 June 2020. Retrieved 9 June 2020.
- ^ "The Official Website of Swire Properties". Swireproperties.com. Archived from the original on 26 February 2009. Retrieved 20 April 2012.
- ^ "Pacific Place Hong Kong". Pacificplace.com.hk. Retrieved 20 April 2012.
- ^ "Island East". Island East. 29 June 2010. Archived from the original on 10 January 2014. Retrieved 20 April 2012.
- ^ "Future Developments". Swire Properties. Archived from the original on 11 February 2014. Retrieved 20 April 2012.
- ^ "Sanlitun Village Shopping & Life Style Centre". Sanlitunvillage.com. Archived from the original on 21 April 2012. Retrieved 20 April 2012.
- ^ "Boutique Luxury Hotel – Beijing". The Opposite House. Retrieved 20 April 2012.
- ^ "Home page". swirehotels.com. Retrieved 20 April 2012.
- ^ "Annual Report 2008" (PDF). Swire. p. 39. Archived from the original (PDF) on 29 September 2011. Retrieved 4 October 2009.
- ^ "Tidewater adds 50 vessels to its fleet after taking over Singapore operator". 25 April 2022.
- ^ "About". Argent Energy. Retrieved 28 March 2018.
- ^ Swire buys Coca-Cola bottlers in Vietnam, Cambodia for $1bn
- ^ "Beverages & Food Chain". Swire. Retrieved 23 March 2023.
- ISSN 0099-9660. Retrieved 28 December 2020.