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Hutchison Whampoa
Hutchison Whampoa Limited (HWL) was an investment holding company based in Hong Kong. It was a Fortune Global 500 company and one of the largest companies listed on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange. HWL was an international corporation with a diverse array of holdings which included the world's biggest port, and telecommunication operations in 14 countries that were run under the 3 brand. Its businesses also included retail, property development and infrastructure. It was 49.97% owned by the Cheung Kong Group until 3 June 2015, when the company merged with the Cheung Kong Group as part of a major reorganisation of the group's businesses. The combined business was renamed CK Hutchison Holdings Limited. History Hutchison Whampoa originated as two separate companies, both founded in the 19th century. and ''Hutchison International'' was formed in 1877. In the 1960s, Hutchison International – under Colonel Sir Douglas Clague (1917–1981) – gained a controlling interest o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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Hutchison may refer to: Places in the United States * Hutchison, Kentucky * Hutchison, Missouri * Hutchison, Virginia People *Alexander Richard Hamilton Hutchison, British Royal Marines officer * Ambrose K. Hutchison (1856–1932), Hawaiian resident leader of the leper settlement of Kalaupapa *Andrew Hutchison (b. 1938), Primate of the Anglican Church of Canada *Anna Hutchison (b. 1986), New Zealand actress * Balfour Oliphant Hutchison (1889–1967), Lieutenant-General in the British Army in World War II and younger brother of Robert Hutchison *Bruce Hutchison (1901–1992), Canadian author and journalist * Chuck Hutchison (born 1948), American football player *Claude B. Hutchison (1885–1980), American botanist and educator * Craig Hutchison (swimmer) (b. 1975), Canadian freestyle swimmer *Don Hutchison (b. 1971), English football player *Doug Hutchison (b. 1960), American actor * Drew Hutchison (b. 1990), American baseball player * Drew Hutchison (rugby league) (b. 1995), Austr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Petronas Chemicals
Petroliam Nasional Berhad (National Petroleum Limited), commonly known as Petronas, is a Malaysian petroleum, oil and natural gas, gas company. Established in 1974 and wholly owned by the Government of Malaysia, the corporation is vested with all oil and gas resources in Malaysia and is entrusted with the responsibility of developing and adding value to these resources. In the 2017 Forbes Global 2000, Petronas Gas was ranked at 1881st. Petronas also ranked 48th globally in the 2020 Bentley Infrastructure 500. Since its incorporation, Petronas has grown to be an integrated international oil and gas company with business interests in 35 countries. As of the end of March 2005, the Group comprised 103 wholly owned subsidiaries, 19 partly owned outfits and 57 associated companies. The Financial Times has identified Petronas as one of the "Seven Sisters (oil companies), new seven sisters": [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Harbour Plaza Hotel Management
Harbour Plaza Hotel Management () is a hospitality management company in Hong Kong. It is owned by Cheung Kong Property Holdings. The company currently manages 9 hotels in Hong Kong alone, China and the Bahamas, including Harbour Plaza Resort City, Harbour Plaza North Point, Harbour Plaza Metropolis, Kowloon Hotel and the other two luxury hotels Harbour Grand Hong Kong and Harbour Grand Kowloon in Hong Kong. Others included Harbour Plaza Chongqing in Mainland China, and Our Lucaya in the Bahamas. Hong Kong * Harbour Plaza Resort City, Tin Shui Wai * Harbour Plaza, North Point * Harbour Plaza Metropolis, Hung Hom * Harbour Plaza 8 Degrees, To Kwa Wan, Kowloon * Kowloon Hotel, Tsim Sha Tsui * Harbour Grand Hong Kong, Fortress Hill * Harbour Grand Kowloon, Whampoa Garden Whampoa Garden () is the largest private housing estate in Hung Hom, Kowloon, Hong Kong. It was built on the site of the former Whampoa Dockyards by Hutchison Whampoa Property. The urban desig ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hutchison Whampoa Property
Hutchison Whampoa Property Group was the property development and investment arm of Hutchison Whampoa of Hong Kong. In 2015, the company was spun-out of Cheung Kong Holdings to form part of Cheung Kong Property Holdings. Hutchison Whampoa Properties Limited has since been renamed Hutchison Property Group Limited (和記地產集團有限公司). History The company was formerly Hutchison Properties Limited (HPL). HPL was incorporated in 1971, as a wholly owned subsidiary of Hutchison International Limited (HIL). Shortly afterwards, it became a listed company and acquired the major property interests of HIL and its trading subsidiaries. In 1980, HPL was privatized by Hutchison Whampoa Limited (HWL), making it once again a wholly owned subsidiary. In 1993, HWL formed Hutchison Whampoa Properties Limited to hold all the property interests of HWD, HPL and HWL's newly privatised subsidiary, CIHL. Properties *Whampoa Garden * Rambler Crest *Cheung Kong Centre * Provident Centre ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Container Terminal
A container port or container terminal is a facility where cargo containers are transshipped between different transport vehicles, for onward transportation. The transshipment may be between container ships and land vehicles, for example trains or trucks, in which case the terminal is described as a ''maritime container port''. Alternatively, the transshipment may be between land vehicles, typically between train and truck, in which case the terminal is described as an ''inland container port''. In November 1932, the first inland container port in the world was opened by the Pennsylvania Railroad company in Enola, Pennsylvania. Port Newark-Elizabeth on the Newark Bay in the Port of New York and New Jersey is considered the world's first maritime container port. On April 26, 1956, the Ideal X was rigged for an experiment to use standardized cargo containers that were stacked and then unloaded to a compatible truck chassis at Port Newark. The concept had been developed by the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hutchison Port Holdings
Hutchison Port Holdings Limited (HPH; ), trading as Hutchison Ports (), is a private holding company incorporated in the British Virgin Islands. The port operator group is a subsidiary of CK Hutchison Holdings (formerly Hutchison Whampoa). Some operation of the company were listed as Hutchison Port Holdings Trust in Singapore Exchange. In 2016, the network comprised 48 port operations throughout Asia, the Middle East, Africa, Europe, the Americas and Australasia. History In 2005, HPH was the largest port operator in the world, with a 33.2 million TEU throughput, and 8.3% world market share. In April 2006, Hutchison Whampoa sold a 20% share of Hutchison Port Holdings Limited to PSA International for $US4.4 billion, retaining ownership of the remaining 80%. In 2011, some of the assets was spin-off as a listed company as ; the listed company was incorporated as a business trust under Singapore's Business Trusts Act. In September 2016, HPH rebranded its network as Hutchison Port ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Caisse De Dépôt Et Placement Du Québec
Caisse de dépôt et placement du Québec (CDPQ; ) is an institutional investor that manages several public and parapublic pension plans and insurance programs in Quebec. CDPQ was founded in 1965 by an act of the National Assembly, under the government of Jean Lesage. It is the second-largest pension fund in Canada, after the Canada Pension Plan Investment Board. As of June 30, 2022, CDPQ managed assets of C$391 billion, invested in Canada and elsewhere. CDPQ is headquartered in Quebec City at the Price building and has its main business office in Montreal at Édifice Jacques-Parizeau. History The Caisse de dépôt et placement du Québec was established on July 15, 1965, by an Act of Québec's National Assembly to manage the funds of the Quebec Pension Plan, a public pension plan also created by the Québec government. In the years following, CDPQ was entrusted with managing the funds of other public pension and insurance plans: the Supplemental Pension Plan for Employees o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
BTG Pactual
BTG Pactual is a Brazilian financial company that operates in the markets of investment banking, wealth management, asset management, corporate lending and sales and trading. It offers advisory services in mergers and acquisitions, wealth planning, loans and financings, as well as investment solutions and market analyses. It is the sixth largest banking institution in Brazil, the sixteenth largest in Latin America, and the largest investment bank in Latin America and the Caribbean. With headquarters in Rio de Janeiro and São Paulo, the clients of the bank, which began as a brokerage firm in 1983 in Rio de Janeiro, are companies, retail and institutional investors, as well as municipal, state and federal governments. With assets of US$72.6 bn and shares traded on the B3 and NYSE Euronext, BTG Pactual has offices primarily in Latin American cities and in the world's leading financial centers. BTG Pactual is controlled by André Esteves, Roberto Sallouti, Nelson Jobim, John Hu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Abu Dhabi Investment Authority
The Abu Dhabi Investment Authority ( ar, جهاز أبوظبي للاستثمار, ADIA) is a sovereign wealth fund owned by the Emirate of Abu Dhabi (in the United Arab Emirates) founded for the purpose of investing funds on behalf of the Government of the Emirate of Abu Dhabi. It manages the Emirate's excess oil reserves and is estimated to manage $790 billion. ADIA's operations have been characterized as secretive and opaque. History In 1967, Abu Dhabi emirate created the Financial Investments Board which operated within its Department of Finance and was responsible for managing the Emirate's excess oil revenues. However, in 1976, Sheikh Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan, the founding president of the United Arab Emirates, converted it into the Abu Dhabi Investment Authority. The goal was to invest the Abu Dhabi government's surpluses across various asset classes, with low risk. At the time it was novel for a government to invest its reserves in anything other than gold or sho ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Canada Pension Plan Investment Board
The Canada Pension Plan Investment Board (CPPIB; french: Office d'investissement du régime de pensions du Canada), operating as CPP Investments (french: Investissements RPC), is a Canadian Crown corporation established by way of the 1997 ''Canada Pension Plan Investment Board Act'' to oversee and invest the funds contributed to and held by the Canada Pension Plan (CPP). CPP Investments is one of the world's largest investors in private equity, having invested over US$28.1 billion between 2010 and 2014 alone. Despite being a Crown corporation, CPPIB is not considered a sovereign wealth fund because it operates at arm's length from the Government of Canada and solely manages CPP contributions paid by workers and employers, not public funds. As of June 30, 2022, the CPP Investment Board manages over C$523 billion in assets under management for the Canada Pension Plan on behalf of 20 million Canadians. History The Canada Pension Plan was first established in 1966. For much of i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
GIC Private Limited
GIC Private Limited is a sovereign wealth fund in Singapore that manages its foreign reserves. Established by the Government of Singapore in 1981 as the Government of Singapore Investment Corporation, its mission is to preserve and enhance the international purchasing power of the reserves with the aim of achieving good long-term returns above global inflation over the investment time horizon. With a network of 10 offices in key financial capitals worldwide, GIC invests internationally in developed market equities, emerging market equities, nominal bonds and cash, inflation-linked bonds, private equity and real estate. The Sovereign Wealth Fund Institute (SWFI) had estimated the fund's assets at US$690 billion as of June 2022 while Forbes estimated the fund's assets at US$744 billion after legislation were passed to transfer about USD137b from the central bank. Besides GIC, Singapore also owns another sovereign wealth fund Temasek Holdings with managed assets at abou ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cayman Islands
The Cayman Islands () is a self-governing British Overseas Territory—the largest by population in the western Caribbean Sea. The territory comprises the three islands of Grand Cayman, Cayman Brac and Little Cayman, which are located to the south of Cuba and northeast of Honduras, between Jamaica and Mexico's Yucatán Peninsula. The capital city is George Town on Grand Cayman, which is the most populous of the three islands. The Cayman Islands is considered to be part of the geographic Western Caribbean Zone as well as the Greater Antilles. The territory is a major world offshore financial centre for international businesses and wealthy individuals, largely as a result of the state not charging taxes on any income earned or stored. With a GDP per capita of $91,392, the Cayman Islands has the highest standard of living in the Caribbean. Immigrants from over 130 countries and territories reside in the Cayman Islands. History No archaeological evidence for an indigenou ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
