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.

• Swire SITA Waste Services Ltd.
  Swire SITA specialises in long-term environmental contracts and is a 50:50 joint venture between Swire Pacific and Suez Environment of France - a part of the Suez group. The company operates in Hong Kong, Macao, Taiwan, and Mainland China and works closely with local authorities on strategic environmental initiatives. These involve waste treatment, cleansing and recycling - all supported by modern technology and advanced techniques.

  In Hong Kong, Swire SITA is a major specialist contractor to the SAR Government's Environmental Protection Department (EPD) for the design, construction and operation of key waste management facilities. These include Hong Kong's two state-of-the-art mega landfills: the West New Territories (WENT) and North East New Territories (NENT) landfills. WENT, with a total designed void space of 65 million cubic metres, is one of the largest landfills of its kind in the world. NENT, a joint venture with New World Infrastructure, has a total capacity of 35 million cubic metres.

  In June 2003, a 25-year agreement was signed between Far East Landfill Technologies, a subsidiary of Swire SITA, and local gas supplier, Hong Kong and China Gas Co. Ltd. (Towngas) for the development of a landfill gas treatment system at the NENT landfill site and the construction of a 19-kilometre pipeline to transmit compressed, treated surplus LFG to the Towngas plant in Tai Po. The system came on stream in early 2008. In what is one of the largest “green” energy recovery and reuse programmes in the world, this initiative will reduce the emission of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere by an estimated 135,000 metric tonnes, as well as helping to conserve fossil fuels.

  Under various agreements with the EPD, Swire SITA has designed, constructed and now operates 11 refuse transfer stations around Hong Kong, including the Island East and Island West facilities and several additional Outlying Island facilities. Most of these facilities have been designed to function in spatially restrictive and environmentally sensitive urban locations. Containerised, compacted waste from a number of these stations is transported by sea on purpose-built vessels managed by HUD Marine.

  The company also manages six closed landfills, and is implementing restoration programmes that include capping, re-profiling and restructuring, to ensure that they are fully contained and will pose no further hazard to the environment in the years to come.

  At street level, Swire SITA's subsidiary Waylung Waste Services provides solid and liquid waste collection services throughout Hong Kong. In neighbouring Macao, subsidiary CSR, which has a workforce of more than 400, handles all municipal waste collection and street cleansing services under a long-term contract with the Government. CSR has designed, built and now operates a hazardous waste treatment centre for the Government of Macao.

  In Hong Kong, Swire SITA is involved in a number of schemes to minimise and reuse waste, such as the recycling of household appliances at Yuen Long in the New Territories. In Macao, in addition to collecting recycled materials, CSR visits schools and public events to promote the benefits of waste minimisation and recycling.

  A composting plant at Sha Ling, designed and operated by Waylung under EPD contract, turns livestock waste collected from local farmers into garden compost for landscaping use.

• 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.