Swire

Swire Group
Company type
IndustryConglomerate
Founded1816; 208 years ago (1816)
HeadquartersOne Pacific Place, Hong Kong (Operational HQ)
London (Registered HQ) [1]
(Hong Kong but with registered office in London for John Swire & Sons Limited (UK) and some other related entities and subsidiaries)
Key people
Barnaby Swire, Chairman, John Swire & Sons Limited, Merlin Swire, (Chairman, Swire Pacific)
ProductsProperty, aviation, beverages, food chain, shipping, offshore support services, agriculture, manufacturing, wholesale and retail, mining etc.
RevenueIncrease £12.08 billion (2021)[1]
US$16.3 billion
Number of employees
100,000+ [2]
SubsidiariesSwire Pacific

Steamships Trading Company
Swire Beverages
Swire Shipping
Swire Resources

Swire Foods
WebsiteSwire.com
Swire
Traditional Chinese太古集團
Simplified Chinese太古集团
Jyutpingtaai3 gu2 zaap6 tyun4
Transcriptions
Standard Mandarin
Hanyu PinyinTàigǔ Jítuán
Yue: Cantonese
Jyutpingtaai3 gu2 zaap6 tyun4

Swire Group (Chinese: 太古集團) is a highly diversified global conglomerate with its parent company being John Swire & Sons Limited that holds controlling stakes in a range of businesses trading in the UK, USA, Australia, Papua New Guinea, East and West Africa, and across Southeast Asia. The Group's businesses are arranged into groups: property, aviation, beverages and food chain, marine services, and trading and industrial.

Its core businesses are mainly focused on Asia, with its key operations in Hong Kong and the Chinese Mainland. Within Asia, Swire's activities come under the group's publicly quoted arm, Swire Pacific Limited, which is the largest shareholder in two Hong Kong listed companies: Swire Properties and Cathay Pacific. Taikoo (太古) is the Chinese name of Swire. It serves as the brand name for businesses such as Taikoo Sugar and Taikoo Shing.

  1. ^ https://find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk/company/00133143/filing-history. Retrieved 13 November 2022.
  2. ^ "Swire About Us". Swire Group. Archived from the original on 2 July 2019. Retrieved 13 November 2022.