In Hong Kong, two most well-known conglomerates are the Swire Group and Jardine Matheson, both are British-owned companies that have a history of over 100 years and have business interests that span across four continents with a focus in Asia.

Swire Group ( or Swire Pacific ) controls a wide range of businesses, including property ( Swire Properties ), aviation ( i. e. Cathay Pacific and Dragonair ), beverages ( bottler of Coca Cola ), shipping and trading.

In January 1990, Cathay Pacific, Swire Group and CITIC Pacific acquired an 89 percent stake in the airline, with CITIC Pacific holding 38 percent ; while the family of the airline's chairman Kuang-Piu Chao reduced their holding from 22 percent to 6 percent, with the remainder held by minor shareholders.

In addition, there is a 30 cm Oneworld logo next to the first left door and a Swire Group logo on the aft of the aircraft.

The Swire Group also contributed funds, partly wishing to bolster its corporate image following the death of a passenger on board one of its ships, Fatshan, and the subsequent unrest stirred by the Self-Government Society.

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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.

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.

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* Festival Walk — a shopping centre operated by Swire Group and CITIC.

She joined the Swire Group in 1964 and now she is an Executive Director of John Swire & Sons Limited and a Director of Swire Pacific Limited.

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Asiana Airlines, Standard & Poor's, Swire Group, Etihad Airways, EVA Air, and Qatar Airways.

* The Chinese name of Swire Group.

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Organisations such as The Hong Kong Philharmonic Orchestra, Hong Kong Sinfonietta and the Hong Kong Chinese Orchestra receives substantial annual funding from the Hong Kong Government and other major sponsors such as the Swire Group.

Opened on 30 November 1980, it is named after the Swire Group, a British transnational corporation, whose financial contributions made possible the building of the hall.

In the field of legal academia, Peter Swire has written about the trade-off between the notion that " security through obscurity is an illusion " and the military notion that " loose lips sink ships " as well as how competition affects the incentives to disclose.

Dame Vivienne Westwood, DBE, RDI ( born Vivienne Isabel Swire on 8 April 1941 ) is an English fashion designer and businesswoman, largely responsible for bringing modern punk and new wave fashions into the mainstream.

Taikoo ( 太古 ) is the Chinese name of Swire.

The Swire Group's privately owned parent company is John Swire & Sons Limited.

Swire Pacific Limited is listed on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange as Swire Pacific Limited ( A-shares ) ( B-shares ).

Swire Pacific is the largest shareholder of Cathay Pacific, Hong Kong's largest airline.

In Mainland China, Swire Properties has a portfolio amounting to approximately 12. 9 million sq ft ( approximately 1. 20 million sqm )*, the majority of which is under construction.

Swire Pacific Offshore Holdings Limited ( SPO ) is the wholly owned subsidiary of Swire Pacific and charters vessels that support the offshore oil and gas industry worldwide.

The China Navigation Co. Ltd is the deep-sea shipping arm of John Swire & Sons Ltd.

Swire is an anchor bottler in the Coca-Cola System.

Hugo George William Swire ( born 30 November 1959 ) is a British Conservative Party politician.

It is jointly developed by five local developers including Hang Lung Development Co. Ltd., Henderson Land Development Co. Ltd., New World Development Co. Ltd., Sun Hung Kai Properties Ltd., Swire Properties and with the MTR Corporation.

Nott's daughter, Sasha, is married to the Member of Parliament for East Devon, Hugo Swire MP ; who was until July 2007, the Shadow Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport. In the new coalition government he is Minister of State for Northern Ireland.

“ A significant element of current thinking about privacy, however, stresses " self-regulation " rather than market or government mechanisms for protecting personal information ” ( Swire, 1997 ) According to some experts, most rules and regulations are formed due to public outcry, which threatens profit maximization and therefore the well-being of the shareholder, and that if there is not outcry there often will be limited regulation.

Before 1999, Cathay Pacific had its head office in the Swire House in Central.

* Swire Memorial House at Yokohama

In 2003, the redevelopment of Swire House into the new Chater House was completed.

The new 36-level project, which was finished in 1976, and was joined to Prince ’ s Building, Swire House, The Mandarin Hotel and Connaught Centre by overhead walkways.

In Hong Kong, Central office space supply increased substantially in late 1990s and in 1997 the company launched the redevelopment of Swire House as a world class building in the heart of Central, now named Chater House.

It was built on the site of the former Swire House.

Swire House was completed in 1962, and had a total floor space of 35, 000 square metres.

Young Leaders, Health Messengers Association, Carolina Garcia Travesi, Oposa Group, Xialu Township, Jan C. Van der Leun, Ube City, Swire Group, The Nation ( Thailand ), Kook-Hyun Moon, Theo Manuel,

The China Navigation Company was formed in London in 1872 with a capital of £ 360, 000 chiefly put up by John Samuel Swire and W H Swire with Holt's, Rathbones, Y H Ismay, R N Dale, John Scott, T Barlow and Mssrs.

Butterfield and Swire ( B & S ), who were the Far Eastern trading company of JS & S, were appointed from the formation of CNCo as Eastern Managers, all correspondence with JS & S, the London Managers, being conducted by the offices in Hong Kong and Shanghai.

The Claire Swire email of 2000 was supposedly a very personal email from Claire Swire to Bradley Chait, who worked at Norton Rose, a law firm in London, England.