1946 A return to trading

Trading & Industrial
A selection of products under the joint venture

Butterfield & Swire and Maclaine Watson & Co. formed a Hong Kong-based trading joint venture, Swire & Maclaine. Swire’s return to general trading capitalised on the post-war shortages of every sort of commodity in the HKSAR and the Chinese mainland.

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