Mar 12, 2021 · By his mid-twenties, Ben Keswick was being groomed to run the business his family has led for five generations in Hong Kong and turned into a $50bn pan-Asian empire.

Mar 8, 2021 · The cross-holding structure was created in the 1980s as a defensive move by the Keswick family to prevent a takeover of Hongkong Land.

Nov 10, 2024 · Henry Keswick, taipan who took Jardine Matheson back to China, 1938-2024 British businessman pushed his historic family-run trading house into mainland Chinese and …

Dec 26, 2018 · His brother Simon was taipan for a while and Simon’s son Ben Keswick, who succeeds Sir Henry as chairman next week, has been managing director since 2012. Jardines …

Nov 15, 2019 · Ben Keswick, scion of the family that married into the Jardine family that has owned the business since the 19th century, became the so-called “taipan”, or top boss, of …

Henry Keswick, taipan who took Jardine Matheson back to China, 1938-2024 British businessman pushed his historic family-run trading house into mainland Chinese and south-east Asia …

Mar 21, 2023 · The Hongkong and Shanghai Hotels (HSH) was founded in 1866; Kadoorie’s grandfather, Elly Kadoorie, opened The Peninsula Hong Kong in 1928, nearly 50 years after …

Jan 2, 2018 · M&S has slowly expanded its food business in Hong Kong during the past decade, pushing back against the supermarket duopoly of Li Ka-shing’s ParknShop and the Keswick …

Mar 16, 2021 · The restructuring will probably add vast amounts to the multibillion-dollar Keswick family fortune. But that also means the dynasty will become further entwined with Jardine’s …

Feb 18, 2021 · But Keswick, who had escaped from Japanese-occupied Shanghai as a child in 1942, persisted. After a period of cautious property investment in the early 1990s, he was …