New World Department Store China Limited is a
Hong Kong
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-based holding company for
department store
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chains in the
Mainland China
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. New World Department Store China is a
subsidiary
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of another listed company
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 ...
. It has self-owned stores and managed stores in Mainland China and in the past in Hong Kong. It operates under two
brands
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: "New World" () and ''Ba-li Chun-tian'' (). The
chairman
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is
Henry Cheng
Henry Cheng Kar-shun, GBM, GBS ( Chinese: 鄭家純; born 11 December 1946) is a Hong Kong billionaire property developer.
Cheng is the elder son of Cheng Yu-tung who founded Hong Kong-listed New World Development of which Henry succeeded ...
, the son of the Hong Kong
billionaire
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,
Cheng Yu-tung
Cheng Yu-tung GBM (; 8 August 1925 – 29 September 2016) was a Hong Kong billionaire with extensive property investment, development and service businesses, hotels, infrastructure, jewellery retailing and transportation interests in Hong Kong, ...
. It was listed on the
Stock Exchange of Hong Kong
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with
IPO
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price of HK$5.8 per share.
New World taps into retain boom with IPO
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See also
*New World China Land
New World China Land Limited is a wholly owned subsidiary of Hong Kong-based conglomerate New World Development, itself part of Chow Tai Fook group. New World China Land was spin off from New World Development in 1999 as a separate listed compan ...
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Companies listed on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange
Civilian-run enterprises of China
Department stores of Hong Kong
Department stores of China
New World Development subsidiaries
Retail companies established in 1993
Retailing in Hong Kong
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