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(All results refer to financial year 2008. Other data effective end July 2009.)

Swire Pacific

Property

Swire Properties Limited

  • Valuation of investment properties completed and under development at December 2008: HK$134,539 million (US$17,249 million)
  • Gross rental income from completed investment properties in 2008: HK$6,791 million (US$871 million)
  • Total completed gross floor area at the end of 2008 is 16.7 million square feet with a further nine million square feet under development

Gross floor areas (in million square feet): Hong Kong Mainland China USA UK
  Completed properties held for investment
    Commercial 12.1 1.3
    Techno-centres 1.8
    Residential 0.5
    Hotels 0.3 0.2 0.3 0.2
  14.7 1.5 0.3 0.2
  Properties under development
    Investment properties (mainly commercial and hotels) 0.9 6.4
    Properties for sale (mainly residential) 0.5 1.2
  Total portfolio 16.1 7.9 1.5 0.2

  • The table includes floor areas of properties held by subsidiaries, associated and jointly controlled companies on an attributable basis

Aviation

Cathay Pacific Airways Limited

  • Fleet: 123
  • Aircraft in service: 118
  • Fleet composition: 12 Boeing 777-300s, 11 777-300ER (Extended Range), five 777-200s, 23 747-400s, 12 747-400BCF (Boeing Converted Freighter), six 747-400 freighters, six 747-400ER freighters, one 747-200 freighter, 15 Airbus A340-300s and 32 Airbus A330-300s
  • On firm order: 37, including 19 Boeing 777-300ER, 10 747-8 freighters and eight Airbus A330-300s
  • Destinations served: 114 cities in 35 countries and territories (including code-share destinations)

Hong Kong Dragon Airlines Limited (Dragonair)

  • Aircraft in service: 30
  • Fleet composition: 14 Airbus A330s, six A321s and 10 A320s
  • On firm order: Two Airbus A320s (lease)
  • Destinations served: 30, including 17 cities in Mainland China

Cathay Pacific and Dragonair:

  • 2008 passengers carried: 24.96 million
  • 2008 kilometres flown: 460 million
  • 2008 cargo and mail carried: 1.645 million tonnes

AHK Air Hong Kong Limited

  • All-cargo airline
  • Aircraft in service: 11
  • Fleet: eight owned Airbus A300-600F and three aircraft under wet-lease (two Boeing 727-247Fs and one B747-400BCF)
  • Destinations served: 12 Asian cities

Hong Kong Aircraft Engineering Company Limited (HAECO)

  • One of the world's leading aeronautical engineering groups providing a comprehensive range of services encompassing Line Maintenance, Base Maintenance, and Component/Avionics Repair and Overhaul services. The company provides a full range of Line Maintenance services from aircraft cleaning, ramp handling and cabin management to full technical certification, and offers round-the-clock services to over 70 airlines at Hong Kong International Airport (HKIA), handling over 90,000 flight movements a year. Base Maintenance division provides airframe maintenance checks as well as structural, avionics and cabin modifications on a wide range of aircraft types at its two hangars at HKIA; whilst its 7,000 sq.m. Component Overhaul facilities at Tseung Kwan O, 50 km east of HKIA, deliver over 50,000 component inputs a year to a variety of customers. HAECO also provides tailor-made Fleet Technical Management and Inventory Technical Management Services to airline customers. HAECO holds approvals from HKCAD, USA FAA, European Union EASA and 24 other regulatory authorities. The HAECO group employs over 12,000 staff
  • Principal subsidiary and jointly controlled companies are:
    • Taikoo (Xiamen) Aircraft Engineering Company Limited (TAECO) - full equipped with five double-bay B747-size hangars, with the sixth one planned for operation by mid 2010. Provides heavy maintenance on a wide range of Boeing and Airbus aircraft, passenger/combi to freighter conversion programmes on B747-200/300/400, and B737-300/400 models. TAECO also provides Line Maintenance in Beijing, Shanghai, Xiamen and Tianjin
    • Taikoo (Shandong) Aircraft Engineering Company Limited (STAECO) - five hangars can accommodate 10 B737/A320 aircraft models simultaneously. Provides line and heavy maintenance and modifications on narrow body/regional aircraft including B737/A320/SAAB340 and Bombardier CRJ200/700, and passenger to freighter conversions on B737-300/400 aircraft
    • Hong Kong Aero Engine Services Limitd (HAESL) - an overhaul facility equipped with 130,000 lbs thrust Engine Test Cell, with full capability to perform complete repair and overhaul of the RB211 and TRENT series of engines

Cathay Pacific Catering Services

Kitchens:   Hong Kong   Ho Chi Minh City   Cebu   Vancouver   Toronto   Taipei   Total
Meals per day:   56,900   12,600   1,600   9,100   9,700   25,800   115,700

Hong Kong Airport Services Limited (HAS)

  • Licensed ramp and passenger handling services at Hong Kong International Airport
  • 44 airline customers
  • Provision of crew transportation services
  • Handled a total of 85,386 flights in 2008

Vogue Laundry Service Limited

  • Asia's largest single-site laundry with an annual output of 27,740,000kgs
  • Operates one plant and 20 retail outlets in Hong Kong, employing some 600 staff
  • Is a member of the Drycleaning & Laundry Institute International, with ISO 9001, ISO 14001, OHSAS 18001, Q-Mark service scheme and Green Mark accreditation
  • Serves both corporate and retail customers, with a client base of over 20 airlines and 25 hotels and many well-known clubs and institutions in Hong Kong

Beverages

  • 2008 sparkling and still drink sales: 801 million eight-ounce unit cases
  • Nine Coca-Cola production facilities in Mainland China, one in Hong Kong, and two each in Taiwan and the USA
  • Coca-Cola franchise territory covering Hong Kong, Taiwan, seven provinces in Mainland China and parts of 11 states in the USA
  • Franchise territory includes 482 sales offices: 441 in Mainland China, one in Hong Kong, 13 in Taiwan and 27 in the USA
  • Total franchise population estimated to be 444 million
  • Leading brands produced: Coca-Cola, Coke Zero, Vanilla Coke, Coke Light, Sprite, Fanta, Smart, Schweppes, Nestea, Nescafe, Powerade, Qoo, Minute Maid, Yuan Ye, Hi-C, Healthworks, Bonaqua, Ten Ren, Dr Pepper, Dasani, Full Throttle, Ice Dew and Sensation

Marine Services

Swire Pacific Offshore (SPO)

  • Is a provider of offshore marine support services to the international oil and gas industry, operating a fleet of 70 wholly-owned vessels, including Anchor Handling Tug Supply Vessels (AHTS), Anchor Handling Tugs (AHT), Platform Supply Vessels (PSV), Ice-breaking Supply Vessels (IBSV), Seismic Survey Vessels, ROV/Dive Support Vessels and Maintenance/Utility Vessels. The company has an order book of 17 vessels plus two accommodation work barges delivering between December 2009 and December 2012 and operates worldwide except North America. The Seismic Survey division operates three seismic survey vessels on term charter to major geophysical clients
  • Swire Production Solutions designs, builds and operates production systems for the offshore oil and gas industry. These include Floating Production Storage Offloading vessels (FPSOs) based on converted tankers for long-term field development, Mobile Production Units (MOPUs) using jack up rigs, and Floating Production Units (FPUs), based on offshore support vessels, for temporary production, marginal field appraisal and extended well tests
  • Swire Salvage: professional salvors with specialist equipment depots strategically located in Singapore, Dubai and West Africa. Emergency response services include salvage, ocean towage, re-floating of vessels, wreck removal, oil spill cleanup, fire-fighting and diving services
  • Lamor Swire Environmental Solutions (LSES) has large inventories of specialised equipment based in the United Arab Emirates, Singapore and Finland to provide effective and rapid cleanup of offshore oil spills and other environmental disasters on a global basis through a network of dedicated Response Centres. LSES also provides in-house training and turnkey solutions for a wide range of clients

HUD Group

  • Provides ship repair and land engineering services, with a floating dock of 40,000 tonnes lifting capacity
  • Designs, owns and operates (as The Hongkong Salvage & Towage) a fleet of 13 tugs with a combined 46,800 BHP and average age of seven years
  • Manages six specialised vessels on behalf of Swire SITA in support of Government waste disposal contracts

Trading and Industrial

Trading

  • Taikoo Motors Taiwan imports and retails motor vehicles in Taiwan. The group is currently the exclusive importer of Volkswagen cars, Volkswagen light commercial vehicles, Volvo trucks and buses and Harley-Davidson motorcycles. The group sold 6,375 vehicles in 2008
  • Swire Resources Group is the leading marketer, wholesaler and retailer of athletic and leisure footwear, apparel and accessories in Hong Kong and Macau, where it is the exclusive distributor of the following international brands: Columbia, Rockport, Aerosoles, Arena, Champion, Speedo, Surf-Siders and Teva. In Mainland China it is the exclusive distributor of Columbia, Puma, Mountain Hardware, Montrail and Rockport footwear and apparel. PUMA Hong Kong Limited and PUMA China Limited, joint ventures with PUMA AG, manage the marketing and distribution of PUMA footwear, apparel and accessories in Hong Kong and Mainland China respectively. Intermarket Agencies (Far East) Limited, a joint venture with the Pentland Group, distributes Speedo swimwear. Swire Resources Group owns and operates three multi-brand retail chains in Hong Kong: Marathon Sports, the largest sports retail chain in Hong Kong, GigaSports, mega sports concept stores, and Catalog which sells casual footwear, apparel and accessories. In total, the group manages 124 mixed and single-brand retail outlets in Hong Kong and Macau and 109 single-brand stores in Mainland China. The group sold 3.2 million pairs of shoes in 2008

Industrial

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