Hutchison Harbour Ring
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Hutchison Harbour Ring Limited was a Bermuda incorporated company based in Hong Kong. The company was sold to Oceanwide Holdings in December 2014.
It was a holding company that manufactures and markets toys, premiums, telecommunication accessories and electronic products. Its products are mainly sold to the United States and Europe. However, it was transformed into a real estate company, which owned various floors of Harbour Ring Plaza and Harbour Ring Huangpu Centre, both in Shanghai, via two subsidiaries. State-owned enterprise Gold Bund Group was the minority shareholder of both subsidiaries, which offered to the public to buy in 2017.
History
Hutchison Harbour Ring Limited, formerly Harbour Ring International Holding Limited, was founded by Dr. Luk Chung Lam (Chinese: 陸宗霖) family. It was listed on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange in 1991. In 2000, Hutchison Whampoa coped with ICG, a Nasdaq-traded electronic commerce company, to acquire Harbour Ring to build electronic commerce businesses in Asia during the Internet bubble period.
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