Trading & Industrial Division

Trading

• Swire Resources Ltd.
  Swire Resources acts as the holding company for extensive retail and wholesale interests in sports and active footwear and apparel brands. The company operates over 200 retail outlets in Hong Kong, Macau and Mainland China, primarily consisting of three multi-brand sports and casual retail chains: Marathon Sports, GigaSports and Catalog. Marathon Sports, first opened in the early 1980s, is Hong Kong's largest sportswear retail chain.

  Swire Resources holds distribution right for a number of leading sports and casual shoes and leisurewear brands such as Aerosoles, Arena, Champion, Columbia, Rockport, Surf-Siders and Teva. The company operates a number of concept stores for brands it distributes in Hong Kong and in Mainland China. In 2006, Swire Resources formed a joint venture with PUMA AG to distribute Puma products in Hong Kong and Mainland China.

• Intermarket Agencies (Far East) Ltd.
  As a joint venture with the Pentland Group of the UK, the company distributes Speedo swimwear in Hong Kong.

Industrial

• CROWN Beverage Cans Hong Kong Ltd.
  This joint venture between Swire Pacific (44.6%) and Crown Holdings Inc. of the USA (55.4%) is the holding company for Swire's two-piece aluminium beverage can production interests in Mainland China.

• Akzo Nobel Swire Paints Ltd.
  In 1990, Swire Duro's paint manufacturing and marketing business in Hong Kong merged with one of the world's largest and most renowned paint producers, ICI, to form ICI Swire Paints Ltd which was then renamed as Akzo Nobel Swire Paints Ltd after the completion of the acquisition of ICI by AkzoNobel in 2008. The business is now an industry-leader in Hong Kong, with Swire Pacific holding 40% of the joint venture.

• Taikoo Sugar Ltd.
  Established in 1881, Taikoo Sugar markets premium sugar products under the Taikoo brand, and is the market leader in Hong Kong's retail and catering sectors. Taikoo supplies bulk sugar products, and branded and private label single-service sachets of sugar, salt, pepper and tea to many of Hong Kong's leading hotels, restaurants, and fast-food outlets. Taikoo is the major sugar importer and leading supplier to the majority of industrial users in Hong Kong. The company also has a well-established export business, and currently markets branded sugar products in Southeast Asia, the Middle East and North America.