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Jardines was one of the original Hong Kong trading houses or Hongs that date back to Imperial China. [9] 58 percent of the company's profits were earned in China in 2019. [10] The company is controlled by the Keswick family, who are descendants of co-founder William Jardine's older sister, Jean Johnstone. Jardine Matheson is a Fortune Global ...
Jardine, Matheson & Co (JM & Co) was founded in Canton in July 1832 by Scots William Jardine and James Matheson. Following the end of the East India Company’s trading monopoly with China, Jardine Matheson sent its first private shipments of tea to England in 1834.
Mar 12, 2021 · Jardine Matheson’s dominance is felt throughout Hong Kong. Its sprawling assets in the city include some of Hong Kong’s most expensive commercial properties and its biggest brands, such as the ...
Our leadership -- Banner Content. Ben Keswick has been Executive Chairman of Jardine Matheson since 2019. He was Managing Director from 2012 to 2020. He has held a number of executive positions since joining the Group in 1998, including finance director and then chief executive officer of Jardine Pacific between 2003 and 2007, and group ...
Jardine Matheson is a diversified Asia-based group founded in China in 1832, with unsurpassed experience in the region. Our broad portfolio of market-leading businesses represents a combination of cash generating activities and long-term property assets, which are closely aligned to the increasingly prosperous consumers of the region.
Jardine, Matheson & Co., later Jardine, Matheson & Co., Ltd., forerunner of today's Jardine Matheson Holdings, was a Far Eastern company founded in 1832 by Scotsmen William Jardine and James Matheson as senior partners. Trafficking opium in Asia, while also trading cotton, tea, silk and a variety of other goods, from its early beginnings in ...
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The founder of the dynasty, William Keswick was born in 1834, in Dumfriesshire in the Scottish Lowlands.His grandmother, Jean Jardine Johnstone was an older sister of Dr. William Jardine, the founder of Jardine Matheson & Company His father Thomas Keswick had married Margaret Johnstone, Jardine's niece and daughter of Jean, and entered the Jardine business.