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The Swire Group is a transnational corporation headquartered in London, England. It controls a range of wholly-owned businesses, including deep-sea shipping, cold storage, road transport, and agricultural activities. A corporation is a legal entity (distinct from a natural person) that often has similar rights in law to those of a Civil law systems may refer to corporations as moral persons; they may also go by the name AS (anonymous society) or something similar, depending on language (see below). ...
The Clock Tower of the Palace of Westminster which contains Big Ben London is the capital city of the United Kingdom and of England. ...
Royal motto: Dieu et mon droit (French: God and my right) Englands location within the UK Official language English de facto Capital London de facto Largest city London Area - Total Ranked 1st UK 130,395 km² Population - Total (2001) - Density Ranked 1st UK 49,138,831 377/km² Religion...
Shipping is the transport of cargo between seaports by ships, typically large steel vessels powered by diesel engines or steam turbine plants. ...
Disruptions in organized traffic flow can create delays lasting hours. ...
History The Swire Group's privately-owned parent company is John Swire & Sons Limited. The Swire Group, started by John Swire (1793-1847), had its beginnings as a modest Liverpool import-export company started in the early years of the 19th century. In 1861, John Swire & Sons Limited began to trade with China through agents Augustine Heard & Co. In 1866, in partnership with R.S. Butterfield, Butterfield & Swire was established in Shanghai. Four years later, a Hong Kong branch of Butterfield & Swire was also opened. 1793 was a common year starting on Tuesday (see link for calendar). ...
1847 was a common year starting on Friday (see link for calendar). ...
Liverpools skyline, as seen from the River Mersey. ...
1861 is a common year starting on Tuesday. ...
1866 is a common year starting on Monday. ...
Shanghai (Chinese: 上海; pinyin: ; Shanghainese IPA: ) is Chinas largest city and is situated on the banks of the Yangtze River Delta. ...
Four years after the establishment of the People's Republic of China, Butterfield & Swire closed all of its China offices. In 1974, Butterfield & Swire in Hong Kong was renamed John Swire & Sons (H.K.) Ltd. 1974 is a common year starting on Tuesday (click on link for calendar). ...
The Group's Businesses The Swire Group's core businesses in Hong Kong are held by the publicly-quoted Swire Pacific Limited. The Group's core businesses are grouped into: property, aviation, beverages, marine services, and trading & industrial. Swire Pacific Limited is listed on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange as Swire Pacific Limited (HKSE: 0019 (http://www.hkex.com.hk/invest/index.asp?id=company/quote_page_e.asp?WidCoID=0019&WidCoAbbName=&Month=&langcode=e)) (A-shares) (LSE: SWRA (http://www.londonstockexchange.com/en-gb/pricesnews/prices/Trigger/genericsearch.htm?bsg=true&ns=SWRA)) (A-shares in London) (HKSE: 0087 (http://www.hkex.com.hk/invest/index.asp?id=company/quote_page_e.asp?WidCoID=0087&WidCoAbbName=&Month=&langcode=e)) (B-shares). The Hong Kong Stock Exchange (SEHK) is the stock exchange of Hong Kong. ...
The Hong Kong Stock Exchange (SEHK) is the stock exchange of Hong Kong. ...
The Source by Greyworld, in the new LSE building The London Stock Exchange (abbreviated LSE) is a stock exchange market located in London. ...
The Hong Kong Stock Exchange (SEHK) is the stock exchange of Hong Kong. ...
It is after the Swire Group that The University of Hong Kong Swire Hall (1980) student dormitory is named. The University of Hong Kong (HKU) (Traditional Chinese: 香港大學; Simplified Chinese: 香港大学; pinyin: Xiānggǎng Dàxué) is an English-language medium university and the oldest tertiary institution in Hong Kong SAR. Its motto is the Latin phrase Sapientia et Virtus (明德格物 ), meaning wisdom and virtue or sometimes cited as Foresight & Social...
Swire Hall (太古堂; pinyin: tàigǔtáng) is an undergraduate, coeducational dormitory located on the University of Hong Kong (HKU) campus that opened November 30, 1980. ...
Swire is an anchor bottler in the Coca-Cola System. It is the bottler of Coca-Cola and its related products in Taiwan, Hong Kong, most of mainland China, as well as parts of 10 states in the United States, mainly the mountain west region. This territory represents a population of 400 million people. The wave shape (known as the dynamic ribbon device) present on all Coca-Cola cans throughout the world derives from the contour of the original Coca-Cola bottles. ...
In this map of China, the light-coloured areas represent Mainland China, while yellow coloured area refers to Taiwan. ...
The company was featured under the pseudonym "Rothwell-Gornt" in James Clavell's novel Noble House, which is a thinly disguised fictional account of the rivalry between Swire Group and Jardine Matheson, another Hong Kong trading house. James Clavell (Charles Edmund DuMaresq de Clavelle) (October 10, 1924 - September 7, 1994) was a novelist and screenwriter, famous for books such as Shogun and films such as The Great Escape and To Sir, with Love. ...
Noble House is a novel by James Clavell, published in 1981 and set in Hong Kong in 1963. ...
Jardine Matheson, often called Jardines, is a multinational corporation that is legally based in Bermuda and which trades on the London and Singapore stock exchanges. ...
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