-Caveat Lector- http://www.jardine-matheson.com/ourgroup.html 1832 Jardine, Matheson & Co. formed in Canton by two Scottish merchant venturers, William Jardine and James Matheson. 1836 James Matheson plays a major role in the founding of Hong Kong. 1840s Jardines purchases first plots of land in Hong Kong, opens a Shanghai office and acquires Lot No 1 of the new foreign settlement in Shanghai. 1859-1860s Jardines is the first 'foreign house' to establish an office in Yokohama and acquires Lot No 1 in the first Yokohama land sales. The company has 20 offices/agencies in China, Japan, UK and USA. 1889 Jardines instrumental in the formation of Hongkong Land. 1930 Jardines' main offices are in Hong Kong and Shanghai, with 15 branch offices in China, 2 each in Japan and Manchuria, and others also established in Taipei, London and New York. 1940s After the fall of Hong Kong, Jardines operates from offices in Calcutta and Bombay. London becomes the main office until 1949 when, on the founding of the PRC, Jardines has main office in Shanghai and six branch offices in China. 1954-1961 Jardines withdraws staff and operations from China. Head office relocated to Hong Kong. Jardines is listed as a public company in 1961. 1970s A joint venture with Robert Fleming of London creates Jardine Fleming & Co. Group acquires interests in: Theo H Davies (a Hawaiian and Philippine sugar producing and trading company), Gammon (a leading construction group in Hong Kong), Zung Fu (motor vehicle interests) and Rennies Consolidated Holdings (shipping, transportation, trading and light industry, hotels and tourism in eight southern African countries) and establishes Jardine Insurance Brokers. 1980 Representative office opened in Beijing. Jardines purchases 40% holding in Hongkong Land which itself owns Mandarin Oriental and Dairy Farm. In turn, Hongkong Land purchases 40% of Jardines. 1984-1989 Jardines forms new holding company in Bermuda and restructures with Jardine Strategic holding Jardine Matheson, Dairy Farm, Hongkong Land and Mandarin Oriental. Jardine Strategic, Dairy Farm and Mandarin Oriental are listed on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange. Jardine Pacific formed as trading and services arm of Jardine Matheson. 1990-1996 The London Stock Exchange becomes the regulator of the Group's principal share listings with Singapore as the primary trading market. Interest in Cycle & Carriage acquired. 1997 JIB Group merged with Lloyd Thompson Group to form Jardine Lloyd Thompson. Jardine International Motors becomes UK's largest distribution of motor vehicles following its acquisition of the Appleyard Group. http://www.jardine-matheson.com/office.html JARDINE MATHESON LTD 48th Floor, Jardine House G.P.O. Box 70 Hong Kong Tel: 852 2843 8388 Fax: 852 2845 9005 MATHESON & CO., LTD 3 Lombard Street London EC3V 9AQ United Kingdom Tel: 44 171 816 8100 Fax: 44 171 623 5024 JARDINE PACIFIC LTD 25th Floor, Devon House Taikoo Place 979 King's Road Hong Kong Tel: 852 2579 2888 Fax: 852 2856 9868 JARDINE INTERNATIONAL MOTORS MANAGEMENT LTD 31st Floor The Lee Gardens 33 Hysan Avenue Causeway Bay G.P.O. Box 209 Hong Kong Tel: 852 2895 7218 Fax: 852 2894 9956 JARDINE LLOYD THOMPSON GROUP PLC 6 Crutched Friars London EC3N 2PH United Kingdom Tel: 44 171 528 4444 Fax: 44 171 528 4185 ROBERT FLEMING HOLDINGS LTD 25 Copthall Avenue London EC2R 7DR United Kingdom Tel: 44 171 638 5858 Fax: 44 171 588 7219 DAIRY FARM MANAGEMENT SERVICES LTD 7th Floor, Devon House Taikoo Place 979 King's Road Hong Kong Tel: 852 2299 1888 Fax: 852 2299 4888 HONGKONG LAND LTD 8th Floor One Exchange Square Hong Kong Tel: 852 2842 8428 Fax: 852 2845 9226 MANDARIN ORIENTAL HOTEL GROUP INTERNATIONAL LTD 7th Floor 281 Gloucester Road P.O. Box 30632 Causeway Bay Hong Kong Tel: 852 2895 9288 Fax: 852 2837 3500 CYCLE & CARRIAGE LTD 239 Alexandra Road Singapore 159930 Tel: 65 473 3122 Fax: 65 475 7088 http://www.flemings.com/world/index.htm History Flemings is a leading international investment banking and fund management group operating in over 40 countries around the world. Our origins date back to 1873, when Robert Fleming, the founder of the Group, helped to form the Scottish American Investment Trust, the first investment trust in Scotland. The formation of the trust came about because Robert Fleming realised that the American economy, then the world's largest emerging market, offered investors significant opportunities, particularly in railways and cattle ranching. Other trusts, investing in both the UK and international markets, quickly followed. The success of the investment trusts was largely due to Robert Fleming's indefatigable energy and his considerable business acumen. By the time of his death in 1933, aged eighty eight, he had built up probably the largest investment trust business in the City of London. Flemings remains one of the largest UK investment trust managers. Today, Flemings employs more than 7,500 people around the world in our core businesses of asset management and investment banking. Through our parent company Robert Fleming in Europe and the Americas, and through Jardine Fleming in Asia and Fleming Martin in Africa, we service an international client base that includes major companies, governments, institutional investors, central banks and private individuals. >From our roots in asset management, we have developed over the years significant securities and investment banking operations. Significant milestones include the formation in 1970 of Jardine Fleming, one of Asia's leading asset management and investment banking groups, in conjunction with Jardine Matheson, the well-known Asian conglomerate. Rowe Price-Fleming International (RPFI), a joint venture with T. Rowe-Price, the US fund manager, was set up in 1979; RPFI is one of the leading managers of international equities on behalf of US institutional and private clients and currently has US$33 billion of funds under management. Fleming Martin, a leading South African investment bank, was established in 1994 as a joint venture with Martin & Co., a leading South African stockbroker. In recent years, the Group has also built up significant asset management and broking operations in Continental Europe and has expanded its presence in emerging markets, especially in Latin America, Eastern Europe and Africa. http://www.jardine-matheson.com/matheson.html Jardine Matheson is a multinational group of British origin, which was founded in China in 1832. The parent company, Jardine Matheson Holdings Limited, is incorporated in Bermuda, listed in London, Singapore and Bermuda, and has a sponsored American Depositary Receipt programme. Jardine Strategic is the company through which the Group's shareholdings in several of the main operating companies are held. Jardine Matheson Ltd, which operates from Hong Kong, manages the activities of the Group, which has interests in over 30 countries, employing some 160,000 people in subsidiary undertakings and associates. The Group's businesses are located principally in the Asia-Pacific Region, but it also has operations in the United Kingdom, Continental Europe and the United States. http://www.sfe.org.uk/browser.htm Scottish Financial Enterprise Scotland's financial community has a distinguished history stretching back several centuries. Its oldest bank was founded over 300 years ago and is still going strong. The investment trust was invented by Scots, and Scots also founded the Bank of England and the first French bank. The community is no less distinguished today. In recent years, it has provided one of Scotland's great economic success stories. It looks after �208 billion worth of funds (as at 30 June 1998) for an international clientele, and is the fourth largest equity management centre in the European Union (after London, Paris and Frankfurt). ...One of the factors in this success is the comprehensive nature of the Scottish financial community: in addition to the core pillars of banking, insurance and funds management, the community includes merchant banks, stockbrokers, accountants, corporate lawyers and many other service providers, all backed up by a first class social, physical and educational infrastructure. DECLARATION & DISCLAIMER ========== CTRL is a discussion and informational exchange list. Proselyzting propagandic screeds are not allowed. Substance�not soapboxing! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory', with its many half-truths, misdirections and outright frauds is used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. 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