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Full Version (PDF) contents ISSUE 27 SEPTEMBER 2010 12 22 08 28 Welcome IN THIS ISSUE, we take a look at HWL’s commitment to investing 02 Newsbites 22 Community Fighting the Good Fight in the UK – be it in retail, ports, infrastructure or telecom- What’s happening in the world of Hutchison Li Ka Shing Foundation munications – and reveal how that ongoing commitment Whampoa Limited backs battle against disease touches so many aspects of so many people’s lives. We’ll also see how lives are impacted by re- 08 3G Hot Spot 26 3G Hot Spot search on viral diseases made possible by the Li Ka Connecting Denmark For Your Shing Foundation. Bringing mobile Viewing Pleasure A S Watson has gone global. We take a look at communications to the Danes 3 Italia targets big screen how A S Watson expands into new markets efficient- and small ly and effectively. A trend that has taken the world 12 Cover Story by storm is organic food and beauty products. A Encouraging the 28 Retail joint venture with Hain Celestial Group is helping to Community Spirit Going Global bring thousands of organic products worldwide. HWL never forgets First A S Watson Global Retail the human factor Day looks at the bigger picture Then come with us to Italy and Denmark to find out how 3 is making a difference. In Denmark it is helping connect agricultural businesses previously failing be- 18 Retail 32 Then & Now Introducing an Switched On cause their remote locations left them isolated, while Organic Lifestyle TVs from big box to in Italy the 3 brand has become synonymous with Going organic just got easier flat screen 3D entertainment – on the big and small screens. We hope you enjoy the magazine. Please send feedback and suggestions to [email protected]. Published by Hutchison Whampoa Limited, 22/F Hutchison House, 10 Harcourt Road, Central, Hong Kong. Available on www.hutchison-whampoa.com. In-house editorial team: Laura Cheung, Jeremy Lau, Hans Leung, Jasmine Hui, Mavis Wong and Wendy Luk. Editorial, design and production: Greg Crandall, Teri Fitsell, Kevin Khan, Virginia Ho, Waimann Lee, Maloney Liu, Vivian Huang and Kelly Cheung – , a division of the Asia City Media Group. Tel: 2850 5500. Colour separation and printing by bigboXX.com Limited. Copyright 2010 by Hutchison Whampoa Limited. All rights reserved. No part of this magazine may be reproduced without the written permission of Hutchison Whampoa Limited. Opinions expressed herein are those of the writers and do not necessarily reflect the opinion of Hutchison Whampoa Limited. All currency conversions are approximations. COVR E AND COVE R STORY I LLUSTRATIONS: BER NARD CHAU POWER PLAY UNITED KINGDOM Hongkong Electric and Cheung Kong Infrastructure have entered an agreement which will result in each of them having a 25 per cent stake in Seabank Power Limited, an electricity- generating company located near Bristol in the United Kingdom. EI bites C CORPORATE P PORTS & RELATED SERVICES Quality Assured H PROPERTY & HoteLS H O N G K O N G Fine wines RETAIL R need looking after. No one TELECOMMUNIcatIONS T knows that better than EI ENERGY, INFRASTRUCTURE, INVESTMENTS & OTHERS Watson’s Wine Cellar whose storage facilities for fine wines have been certified as meeting the exacting standards required under the Hong Kong Quality Assurance Agency’s Wine Storage Management Systems certification scheme. R PET SPORTS GALA MAINLAND CHINA Pet lovers had a great time at the Pet Sports Gala events organised in the Oasis Club in the Chengdu Regency Oasis. They brought their own pets to the event and also watched other animals performing. H News 2 Sphere New Stores Nationwide IRELAND 3 Ireland is opening 28 new 3 Stores and creating 90 new retail jobs across Ireland this year. Eight of the new stores will be own stores and the other 20 will be independently- owned operations under the 3 brand. T Parenthood H O N G K O N G To express our heartfelt gratitude GROUND- to all parents, the BREAKING HWL Volunteer MAINLAND CHINA Distin- Team joined hands guished guests enjoyed the with the Tung Wah ground-breaking ceremony Group of Hospitals for the commercial compo- and Fu Hong Society to nent of the newly named organise a celebratory Qingdao Marina City, a gathering for the elderly. C Hutchison Whampoa Prop- erties development which commands spectacular sea views. H FULLY LOADED MAINLAND CHINA The Ebba Maersk, one of the largest ships in the world, has for the first time carried its full load – a staggering 15,000 TEUs – to Yantian International Container Terminals. P Sphere 3 OIL SUCCESS CANADA Oil production has been achieved from Husky Energy’s North Amethyst field located 350 km offshore from Newfoundland. North Amethyst is the first satellite field develop- ment at Husky’s White Rose project. EI COOKING bites FOR GOOD C CORPORATE H O N G K O N G Top chefs from P PORTS & RELATED SERVICES Harbour Grand Kowloon and H PROPERTY & HoteLS Harbour Plaza North Point took part in the 19th Great Chefs of R RETAIL Hong Kong, preparing some of T TELECOMMUNIcatIONS iPHONE 4 their specialty dishes for the EI ENERGY, INFRASTRUCTURE, INVESTMENTS & OTHERS FRENZY event. Great Chefs raised funds H O N G K O N G Many for children with special needs 3 Group companies are under the care of the Heep Hong selling or will be selling Society. H the popular iPhone 4 in the coming months. 3 Hong Kong celebrated the launch of the popular iPhone 4 with many customers and celebrities at the “3ree iPhone Night” party. T Budding Students MAINLAND CHINA A S Watson China’s Spring Bud programme has financed the establishment of two schools in Guangdong and Anhui provinces since 2004. Now it is establishing Watsons Spring Bud Scholarship for hardworking students who have financial problems. R News 4 Sphere Container Boost NETHERLANDS Hutchison Port Holdings has enhanced container connections between ports in the Netherlands and the European interior with the establishment of Moerdijk Container Terminals, a joint venture between Europe Container Terminals and Combined Container Terminals. P FACEBOOK FUN H O N G K O N G A S Watson brand Superdrug has been a big hit on Facebook and Twitter for several years. Now, Watsons Hong Kong has launched its own official Facebook sites “Slimming Club” and “Beauty Club” while Watsons Taiwan has kicked off a “Watsons my personal healthcare centre” mini-site, which includes health information and a pharmacy Q&A corner. R Global Rankings H O N G K O N G This year’s rankings for the world’s biggest and best companies are Help the out, with HWL as usual taking its place Hungry among the titans. HWL ranked 128 in the CANADA Husky Forbes Global 2000 of Energy raised the biggest, most more than powerful listed CAD150,000 companies in the during Husky world. In the Financial Help the Hungry Times Global 500, Week in Calgary. Husky HWL is 237 in the employees staged a global rank and five in number of events to the sector rank, while raise money. EI in Fortune Global 500, HWL is 302 on the full list and 25 in the China sector. C Sphere 5 Happy Birthday H O N G K O N G More than 400 guests gathered in the Grand Ballroom of the Harbour Grand Hong Kong for cocktails to mark the hotel’s First Grand Anniversary. H GOAL! ITALY To help football fans celebrate the FIFA bites World Cup in South Africa, even while they were C CORPORATE working on the computer, 3 Italia produced an P PORTS & RELATED SERVICES Internet stick shaped like a soccer ball. T H PROPERTY & HoteLS R RETAIL T TELECOMMUNIcatIONS EI ENERGY, INFRASTRUCTURE, INVESTMENTS & OTHERS Green Fun H O N G K O N G As part of this year’s Smart Power Campaign, about 1,000 primary and secondary students took part in open days at Hongkong Electric’s Lamma Power Station and Lamma Winds to learn more about how to reduce the carbon footprint. EI BACK TO SCHOOL MAINLAND CHINA Children in Ankang, Shanxi Province can resume their studies now that work has been completed to replace the original village school damaged in the 12 May earthquake in 2008. The new Shanghai Hutchison Pharmaceuticals Ltd Hope Project Elementary School has room for more than 200 children. EI News 6 Sphere 1 For the 11th year running, Cheung Kong Group is named one of the top three donors to Hong Kong Community Chest. Members of the group won two President’s Awards, two merit awards and one recognition award. C 2 Hongkong International Terminals’ commitment to being green has been rewarded with a Transport and Logistics Gold Award under the Environmental Campaign Committee’s Hong Kong Awards for Environmental Excellence programme. P 3 Cheung Kong (Holdings), Hutchison Whampoa, and Hongkong Electric are named as constituents of the Hang Seng Corporate Sustainability Index in 1 2 recognition of their strong performance with regard to corporate sustainability issues. C 4 T hanks in part to their floor-to-ceiling windows offering staggering views of Victoria Harbour, the Presidential Suite and Harbour Club Lounge at the Harbour Grand Hong Kong have been named Best Executive Suite and Best Executive Club Lounge respectively in the respected Hurun Presidential Awards. H 3 4 5 Hutchison Telecommunications Hong Kong Holdings was named Best Overall Convincing and Coherent Strategy in Hong Kong and Best Overall Corporate Governance in Hong Kong in Euromoney magazine’s Best Managed and Governed Companies – Asia Poll 2010. Meanwhile, Hutchison Global Communications Limited won the Best International Wholesale Carrier Award in the 2010 Telecom Asia Awards.
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