New World China Land Limited is a wholly owned subsidiary of Hong Kong-based conglomerate
New World Development
New World Development Company Limited (NWD), is a Hong Kong-based company focused on property developer in Hong Kong, property, hotels, infrastructure and services and department stores. It was established on 29 May 1970 by Cheng Yu-tung. The ...
, itself part of
Chow Tai Fook
Chow Tai Fook group is a Hong Kong–based, privately-owned conglomerate with holdings in the jewellery, property development, hotel, department store, transportation, energy, telecommunications, port, casino, and other businesses. Despite the ...
group. New World China Land was spin off from New World Development in 1999 as a separate listed company. However, it was privatized again by New World Development in 2016. New World China Land is headquartered in 9/F, New World Tower 1, on 8
Queen's Road Central
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, Hong Kong Island.
History
New World China Limited is a company incorporated in the
Cayman Islands
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as an exempted company, the
legal
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name for the
offshore company
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in that territory, on 28 August 1996.
[ The company was registered in Hong Kong as a "registered non-Hong Kong company" on 17 May 1999. It became a listed company on 16 July 1999 as New World China Land Limited,] which owned the China part of the real estate
Real estate is property consisting of land and the buildings on it, along with its natural resources such as crops, minerals or water; immovable property of this nature; an interest vested in this (also) an item of real property, (more general ...
division of New World Development
New World Development Company Limited (NWD), is a Hong Kong-based company focused on property developer in Hong Kong, property, hotels, infrastructure and services and department stores. It was established on 29 May 1970 by Cheng Yu-tung. The ...
(NWD Group), a blue-chip listed company of Hong Kong. New World China Land owned some hotels that was independent from another sub-holding company, New World Hotels (Holdings)
New World Hotels (Holdings) Limited, formerly known as Kai Tak Land Investment Limited, is a former Hong Kong-listed company and currently a wholly owned subsidiary of New World Development.
History
The company was incorporated as Victoria Park ...
, a former listed company of NWD Group.
In 2011, New World China Land, via New World Hotel Management (BVI) Limited, trading as
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New World Hospitality, acquired the hotel management company Rosewood Hotels & Resorts
Rosewood Hotels & Resorts is an international luxury hotel and resort company operating 28 hotels in 16 countries, currently owned by Hong Kong-based Rosewood Hotel Group (formerly New World Hospitality and rebranded in May 2013). It was founde ...
for US$229.5 million (approx. HK$1.79 billion
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*1,000,000,000, i.e. one thousand million, or (ten to the ninth power), as defined on the short scale. This is its only current meaning in English.
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). In 2013, New World Hospitality (New World Hotel Group) was renamed to Rosewood Hotel Group
Rosewood Hotel Group, also known for its former trading names New World Hotel Group, New World Hospitality and legal names New World Hotel Management (BVI) Limited, New World Hotel Management Limited is a Hong Kong-based multi-national hotel ma ...
.
In July 2015, New World China Land sold its hotel management business, New World Hotel Management (BVI) Limited and subsidiaries, to parent company Chow Tai Fook Enterprises
Chow Tai Fook group is a Hong Kong–based, privately-owned conglomerate with holdings in the jewellery, property development, hotel, department store, transportation, energy, telecommunications, port, casino, and other businesses. Despite the ...
for HK$1.96 billion. According to the press release, it included Rosewood and two other brands New World and penta.[
In December 2015, New World China Land sold three portfolios to fellow Chinese developer ]Evergrande Group
The China Evergrande Group is the second largest property developer in China by sales. It is ranked 122nd on the ''Fortune'' Global 500. It is incorporated in the Cayman Islands, a British Overseas Territory, and headquartered in the Houhai F ...
, for RMB
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13.5 billion (HK$16.36 billion).
In 2016 New World China Land was privatized by New World Development.
Legacy
After the privatization of New World China Land, its parent company New World Development continued to use the brand New World China in some project, such as New World China Land's Wuhan Chow Tai Fook Finance Centre
Wuhan CTF Finance Center also known as Wuhan Chow Tai Fook Finance Centre () is a supertall skyscraper that is planned to be built in Wuhan, Hubei, China. The tower was originally set to be China's tallest, surpassing Shanghai Tower when comple ...
. Also, New World Development (China) Limited is a live subsidiary of the NWD group, which sold two hotels in 2017.
See also
* Leung Chin-man appointment controversy
The Leung Chin-man appointment controversy occurred in Hong Kong in August 2008, when the former Permanent Secretary for Housing, Planning and Lands, Leung Chin-man, was named Deputy Managing Director and Executive Director of New World China Lan ...
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Companies formerly listed on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange
Holding companies established in 1996
1996 establishments in the Cayman Islands
1999 establishments in Hong Kong
Real estate companies of China
Civilian-run enterprises of China
New World Development subsidiaries
Offshore companies of the Cayman Islands
Holding companies of Hong Kong
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