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Hong
Leong Group Singapore
The
Hong Leong Group is one of Singapore's largest local private sector
conglomerates engaged in a wide range of businesses in the Asia-Pacific,
Europe and North America. The Group's five core businesses are
property investment and development, hotel ownership and management,
financial services, trade & industry and e-Business.
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Property 
In Singapore, the Group has won a huge reputation as an innovative entrepreneur and a key player in the property market. Through its Singapore-listed City Developments Limited (CDL) and Hong Leong Holdings Ltd, it holds the largest non-government residential land bank, and is rated the largest residential developer as well as the biggest commercial landlord in Singapore’s core Central Business District.
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Hotels
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The Group’s London-listed hotel arm, Millennium & Copthorne Hotels plc (M&C), is Singapore’s largest international hotel group. M&C owns, asset manages and operates over 114 hotels and over 29,000 rooms in 18 countries worldwide. This puts the Group at the top of the league scoreboard among Asia’s hotelier elite boasting worldwide operations, which include subsidiaries New Zealand-listed CDL Hotels New Zealand and Manila-listed Grand Plaza Hotel Corporation.
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Financial Services
Hong Leong operates Singapore’s largest finance house, Hong Leong Finance Ltd serving customers island-wide. Over the years, Hong Leong Finance has focused on its commitment to serve the man-in-the-street. With total assets of S$7.5 billion in 2006, Hong Leong has consistently been introducing new and enhanced products and services to complement existing ones which cater extensively to the varying needs of its customers.
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Trade & Industry
Notably, the Group is well entrenched in the expanding China market, represented by Singapore-listed Hong Leong Asia which controls multiple businesses. Its diversified interests, ranging from manufacturing to quarrying and distribution is poised to tap into the region’s emerging markets.
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Corporate Citizenship
Beyond the bottom line, the Hong Leong Group demonstrates its commitment to community through Hong Leong Foundation, an active corporate sponsor and donor to civic causes and cultural activities at home and abroad.
The Hong Leong Group has a proud record of continuity and stability since its founding in Singapore by Kwek Hong Png in 1941. Today the second generation of Kweks is at the helm, headed by Kwek Leng Beng. It’s a team of star strikers with its sights firmly set on defined goals. To achieve its new vision the Group is now armed with the tools of today’s Information Technology age and a forward-looking, international mindset, in tune with the new millennium.
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Prepared
by Hong Leong Group Corporate Affairs Department, February 2001
For enquiries, please call (65) 438 0880, fax (65) 534 3060, or e-mail hlgroup@starhub.net.sg
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© 2001 to 2009 All rights reserved. Hong Leong Group Singapore.
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