With roots that can be traced back to the opium trade, today, Jardines is a Fortune Global 500 company that consists of Jardine Pacific, Jardine Motors Group, Jardine Strategic, Dairy Farm, Hongkong Land, Mandarin Oriental Hotel Group, Jardine Cycle & Carriage and Astra International.

Jardine Strategic has a 78 % shareholding in Dairy Farm.

Jardine Strategic has a 74 % shareholding in Mandarin Oriental.

Jardine Strategic has a 70 % shareholding in Jardine Cycle & Carriage.

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Jardine Strategic, a publicly listed holding company, has an attributable 78 % stake in the firm.

The stake was acquired in 2005 from Royal & Sun Alliance through the Jardine Strategic subsidiary, which specializes in leveraging stakes to protect family owners.

Jardine Strategic Holdings Limited (,, ) is a large company that holds stock.

Jardine Strategic is an element of the Straits Times Index.

Jardine Strategic, as an office, is a corporate entity entrusted with managing and owning stock, in its stock portfolios.

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It also owns 42 % of Jardine Lloyd Thompson Group and has an investment ( 21 %) in Rothschilds Continuation Holdings, the merchant banking house.

The first decade of the new millennium saw Jardine Cycle & Carriage acquire an initial 31 % stake in Astra International, which has since been increased to just over 50 % and a 20 % shareholding in Rothschilds Continuation Holdings, which rekindled a relationship that began in 1838.

Jardine Cycle & Carriage ( JC & C ) is an established Singapore-listed company where, as Cycle & Carriage, it has had a presence since 1926.

The organizational structure of Jardines has changed almost totally, but the members of the family of Dr. William Jardine still have significant influence in the firm.

The organizational structure of Jardines has changed almost totally, but the members of the family of Dr. William Jardine still control the firm through a complex cross-shareholding structure, several allied shareholders and a secretive 1947 Trust.

Jardine added that the tension between various former band-mates has been resolved.

For years, Jardine Matheson has fired a cannon shot at noon every day in Causeway Bay, by Victoria Harbour, slightly eastward of the former Kellett Island.

In recent years, Magdalene's access programme has attracted many applicants from state schools, especially from North West England ; and the college's close affiliation with international students ' bursaries such as the Prince Philip Scholarship and the Jardine Foundation has attracted many applicants from Southeast Asia, most notably Wong Yan Lung who went on to become Secretary for Justice for Hong Kong.

Scottish crime fiction has been a major area of growth with the success of novelists including Val McDermid, Frederic Lindsay, Christopher Brookmyre, Quintin Jardine, Denise Mina and particularly the success of Edinburgh's Ian Rankin and his Inspector Rebus novels.

Al Jardine has authored one book, Sloop John B: A Pirate's Tale, illustrated by Jimmy Pickering ( Milk & Cookies Press, 2005 ).

Jardine enjoyed a slightly better position than some other pupils, already possessing when he arrived a reputation as a cricketer and soon excelling at other sports, representing the school at football as a goalkeeper and rackets, and playing Winchester College football, a sport which has resemblances to rugby union.

" This perception faded from the 1950s onwards, and in more recent times, Jardine has been viewed more sympathetically.

Jardine, in a letter to Verity's father, wrote: " Hedley has come through his first tour triumphantly, no mean feat to start with the stiffest tour, but particularly for a slow left-hander.

Jardine considered Verity to be the best slow left-arm bowler of all time, writing: " I venture to doubt whether any other bowler of his type has proved such a master on all kinds of wickets ... No captain could have a greater asset on his side than Verity.

In the meantime, Jardine has begun having an affair with the much-younger wife of Hardy Cathcart ( Clifton Webb ), a wealthy art-gallery owner.

There was some criticism of Sutcliffe for scoring slowly at one point in the second half of his innings but Jardine has confirmed that Sutcliffe was playing under his instructions which " right nobly did Sutcliffe carry them out to the letter ".

Kevin Jardine has gone on to become a producer in Montreal, as well as forming his own band called The Monarchy.

Lisa Jardine has published over fifty scholarly articles in refereed journals and books, and seventeen full-length books, both for an academic and for a general readership, a number of them in co-authorship with others ( including Professor Anthony Grafton, Professor Alan Stewart and Professor Julia Swindells ).

In late 1983 Jardine Matheson sold 50 percent of Gammon to Trafalgar House, a UK based company involved in construction, shipping and property.

Hongkong Land is 50 % owned by Jardine Matheson Holdings.

Flemings was a 50 % partner in the highly successful Asian investment bank Jardine Fleming.

On leaving the Foreign Legion in 1965, he married and moved with his wife Jennifer, to the Far East working for Jardine Matheson for fourteen years and he left to start his own company Davenham Investments, a project advisory company – N M Rothschild took a 50 % stake in Davenham.

Other significant developments during this decade included the merging of Jardine Insurance Brokers with Lloyd Thompson to form Jardine Lloyd Thompson, the acquisition of a 16 % interest in Singapore blue-chip Cycle & Carriage and Dairy Farm ’ s purchase of a significant stake in Indonesia's leading supermarket group Hero.

Hongkong Land became a Group subsidiary for the first time following a multi-year programme of steady open market purchases while Jardine Pacific raised its interest in Hong Kong Air Cargo Terminals Limited from 25 % to 42 %.

A descendant of Sir Robert, Sir John Buchanan-Jardine, sold his family's 51 % holding in Jardine, Matheson and Co. for $ 84 million at the then prevailing exchange rate in 1959.

As of June 2011, Dairy Farm is 78 % owned by Jardine Matheson Holdings.

Until 2008, the only non-family interest was Jardine Matheson, a hong which holds the other 20 % of Rothschild Continuation Holdings.

Mr. Weatherall is a member of the Keswick family which control Jardine Matheson through complex cross-shareholdings, despite holding only around 10 % of the shares in the company.

The firm ’ s business interests include Jardine Pacific, Jardine Motors, Hongkong Land, Dairy Farm, Mandarin Oriental, Jardine Cycle & Carriage, through which its interest in Astra is held, and Jardine Lloyd Thompson.

Richard Hughes, in Hongkong: A Borrowed Place, A Borrowed Time, stated " William Jardine would have made his mark as admirably as a soldier as he did as a Tai-pan.

Subsequent events led to the cross-shareholding structure between Jardine, Matheson & Co. and Hongkong Land which was first instigated in 1980 by then taipan David Newbigging.

On his retirement in 1898, Naorojee sold the company to The Hongkong and Kowloon Wharf and Godown Company Limited, at that time owned by Jardine, Matheson & Co. and Sir Paul Chater.

The complex was developed by Jardine through its property development arm, Hongkong Land.

The holding company holds substantial amounts of Dairy Farm, a convenience store group, Hongkong Land, a property group, Mandarin Oriental, a hotel group, and Jardine Cycle & Carriage, an auto group.