Swire is one of the top 2000 Forbes global listed companies in 2007. It is an old-fashioned British-funded foreign firm that engaged in trade with China during the Qing Dynasty. Today, Swire's business covers four continents, mainly in Asia, Pacific coast, Australia and the United States, covering a wide range, from aviation and shipping to various manufacturing and engineering industries, beverages, real estate, refrigeration, insurance, agriculture and retail. Most of its business in Greater China uses the name of Swire.
Swire Group's parent company, Swire Group Limited (John
Swire co., ltd. Sons Ltd) is a British-funded company, and its history can be traced back to 180 years ago, that is, 18 16 years ago. Founder John
Swire (1793- 1847) is a cloth dealer and runs a textile factory. /kloc-At the beginning of the 9th century, the wool industry began to decline, which made young John Swire decide to start a business in Liverpool. John
Swire's business mainly revolves around his old line-textile industry. Under his management, the company's business is thriving.
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Swire was originally a small import and export company in Liverpool, and officially opened in the early19th century. The founder of the company, John Swire (1793- 1847), is from Yorkshire and was born in Halifax, a wealthy mill town. His family lived there for 150 years, until1in the late 1950s, when his grandfather began to trade in wool. However, in the 1990s 18, with the rise of the new American continent, the wool industry faced the competitive pressure brought by cheap imported cotton, which led to the bankruptcy of John Swire's grandfather and father.
Only John Swire, a teenager, decided to go to Liverpool to develop. At that time, Liverpool was a prosperous trade center in Britain. At first, he was an apprentice in an import agency of a relative. He worked hard, and after a few short years, he finally opened his own company in 18 16. John Swire's business mainly revolves around his old line-textile industry, which imports raw cotton in New Orleans and exports cotton products in Lancashire. Under his painstaking efforts, the small company is thriving and its business is booming. By the time John Swire died in 1847, the trading company he left to his two sons, John Samuel Swire and William Hudson Swire (1830- 1884) was already quite large.
At that time, John Samuel Swire (1825- 1898) was only 22 years old, but he was already a very outstanding businessman. His true nature as an entrepreneur laid the foundation for the company's later achievements. When he was in his twenties, he traveled all over the United States and once had a postal franchise in Arkansas, USA, with great achievements. 1854, he sailed to Australia for gold. Although he failed, he successfully set up a branch in Melbourne in 1855. Although he quickly entrusted this business to an agency, the establishment of Swire Brothers shifted its business focus from the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific Ocean, which made the company take an important step. Melbourne's business later developed into a trading business of exporting all kinds of goods to Australia, from barbed wire, cement, olive oil to Guinness beer. British Swire Group engaged in Guinness beer bottling business in the 1960s and exported it overseas under the name of Dagger Stout.
186 1 year, the American civil war broke out, and John Swire returned to Liverpool before the war broke out, but not long after, the civil war had a disastrous impact on cotton trade. Fortunately, the two brothers have sold their shares in Evangeline and Theodore, two cotton trading sailboats that they first owned in11950s, so that they can turn to trade with China without any worries and import precious tea and silk from China, and China has become their potential textile export market.
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