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(All results refer to financial year 2007. Other data effective end July 2008.)
Swire encompasses a wide range of commercial activities and its interests span five continents. Swire's principal areas of operation are in the Asia Pacific region, and centre on the Greater China area. The Special Administrative Region of Hong Kong is home to publicly quoted Swire Pacific, whose core businesses are grouped under five operating divisions: property, aviation, beverages, marine services, and trading & industrial.
John Swire & Sons, Swire's parent company, is headquartered in London, and in addition to its 36.5% shareholding in Swire Pacific, controls a range of wholly-owned businesses, including deep-sea shipping, cold storage, road transport, and agricultural activities, with main areas of operation in Australia, Papua New Guinea, East Africa, Sri Lanka, the USA and UK. John Swire & Sons acts as overall coordinator of Swire policy, and, under various agreements, management and advisory services are provided within the group.
Year Established
| John Swire & Sons |
Liverpool 1816, Melbourne 1855, London 1864, Shanghai 1866, Yokohama 1867, Hong Kong 1870, New York 1874 |
| Cathay Pacific |
Hong Kong 1946 |
| Swire Pacific |
Hong Kong 1974, from an existing public company, The Taikoo Dockyard and Engineering Company of Hong Kong Limited, first quoted on the Hong Kong stock market in 1959 |
| James Finlay |
Glasgow 1750. James Finlay became a Swire group associate in 1976 and a wholly-owned subsidiary in 2000 |
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Employees
Swire group + associates More than 125,000
2007 Performance
John Swire & Sons reported a profit attributable to shareholders of UK £299m for 2007 on turnover of UK£2,990m. The principal financial statistics of listed companies in the Swire group were:
2008 marks:
- 140 years since John Swire & Sons established its Head Office in London
- 135 years since the first China Navigation vessel went into service on the Yangtze River
- 60 years since Swire acquired a majority shareholding in Cathay Pacific Airways
- 30 years since Swire Pacific Offshore became a wholly-owned subsidiary
- 20 years since Swire acquired the Marathon Sports chain.
Swire's Chinese name is Taikoo (太古) meaning "Great and Ancient" and our motto is "Esse Quam Videri" meaning "To be, rather than to seem to be."

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