Most Kwai Chung Limited () is a magazine and online media company based in

Hong Kong Hong Kong ( (US) or (UK); , ), officially the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region of the People's Republic of China ( abbr. Hong Kong SAR or HKSAR), is a city and special administrative region of China on the eastern Pearl River Delt ...

. The company is well-known for owning and running popular satirical magazine

100Most ''100Most'' () was a satirical weekly magazine published in Hong Kong by Most Kwai Chung, which also runs online platform TVMost. The magazine featured graphics, jokes and reports. Disrespectful and stridently non-conformist in tone, the publicat ...

and online media platform TVMost.

Background

The company and the "Most" brand is founded by

Roy Tsui Tsui Ka Ho ( zh, 徐家豪; born 30 September 1980), better known by his pen name Lam Yat-heiy (Chinese: 林日曦) or Roy Tsui, is a Hong Kong lyricist, who has composed over 80 pieces of lyrics since 2007. He is also a writer and the founder ...

, when he launched 100Most in 2013. The Chinese name of the brand, “Most” and “Mou Gei” () is a parody of Hong Kong television station

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and its Cantonese name “Mou Sin” (). The naming of the company trading name with the term "Kwai Chung", which is a district in Hong Kong, is because their headquarters is located in the Kwai Chung district, and that no other listed companies has added a

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area name into their trading name.

History

In 2013, 100Most was launched as a satirical weekly

magazine A magazine is a periodical publication, generally published on a regular schedule (often weekly or monthly), containing a variety of content. They are generally financed by advertising, purchase price, prepaid subscriptions, or by a combinatio ...

in Hong Kong. In 2015, the company launched its new video platform TVMost, which upload numbers of sarcastic videos to Hong Kong citizens, sometimes even imitating TVB’s shows. On 26 July 2017, Most Kwai Chung submitted their application for listing in the

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, but was rejected in January 2018. On 29 January 2018, the company resubmitted their application and it was successfully listed. In March 2018, the company announced its initial public offering (IPO) plans. It also becomes a listed trading company in Hong Kong with the ticker . The first day of its IPO records retail offer oversubscribed 6,288 times, breaking Hong Kong's IPO record which was formerly held by the 2014 offering of Magnum Entertainment (now AUX International Holdings, ) with the record of being oversubscribed 3,558 times.

Products and subsidiaries

Most Kwai Chung is currently the parent company of the following brands and companies: * Blackpaper *

* TVMost * Whitepaper Publishing * French Rotational Production Limited * Number Eighteen Limited (formerly known as Most Records Limited) * General manager Management Limited

References

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External links

Official website
Mass media companies established in 2017 2017 establishments in Hong Kong Companies listed on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange Mass media companies of Hong Kong