Who was behind the largest private share sale on record in the initial flotation of a supermarket chain owned by Jardine Matheson Holdings via its Dairy Farm International Holdings subsidiary?
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Ian Macgregor Ian Macgregor (born c. 1937) is a British investment executive and chartered accountant. He is the former chief investment officer of The Wellcome Trust, oversaw growth of nearly £1bn per annum over fifteen years, making The Wellcome Trust the then-largest foundation in the world (total assets valued at about £14bn at his retirement in 2000). Regarded by many as the most successful investment officer ever seen in the not-for-profit sector, Macgregor was behind the largest private share sale on record: initial flotation of Wellcome Plc.
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Wellcome Wellcome (; Cantonese: "Wai Hong" in Hong Kong; in Taiwan) is a supermarket chain owned by Jardine Matheson Holdings via its Dairy Farm International Holdings subsidiary. The Wellcome supermarket chain is one of the two largest supermarket chains in Hong Kong, the other being PARKnSHOP. Wellcome also operates supermarkets in Taiwan and the Philippines under the Wellcome name. The parent company, Dairy Farm, also has other supermarket interests in the Asia Pacific under different brand names.
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Atlantic (supermarkets) Atlantic (Greek: Ατλάντικ ) was a large supermarket chain in Greece. Atlantic supermarkets were founded in 1980 by Panayiotis Apostolou. Up to 1985 the company was a small chain with just 5 stores. After 1985 the company expanded rapidly through both organic growth and a number of acquisitions and takeovers. Atlantic was a public company and its shares used to trade in the Athens Stock Exchange from 2000 up to 2010. As of 2006–2007, the company had 182 stores nationwide and was the fifth largest supermarket chain in Greece as measured by market share. The company had also operated a franchise network of smaller stores branded "ARISTA". Since 2009 the company had suffered from serious financial difficulties (mainly due to excessive borrowing) and eventually (in 2011) went into liquidation. The company ceased all trading as of 3 August 2011.
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Hillards Hillards plc was a small supermarket chain from the North of England, bought out in a hostile takeover by Tesco in 1987.
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Lion Dairy &amp; Drinks Lion Dairy & Drinks (LD&D Milk Pty Ltd and LD&D Foods Pty Ltd) formerly known as "National Foods", is a major dairy company in Australia, a subsidiary of parent Lion which itself is owned by the Japanese company Kirin Holdings Co. Ltd.
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Izumiya Izumiya (イズミヤ ) is a Japanese supermarket chain operated by Izumiya Co., Ltd (イズミヤ株式会社 , Izumiya Kabushiki-gaisha ) . The company was acquired by H2O Retailing in 2014, making it a wholly owned subsidiary, to raise its profile in the Kansai region.
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Walmart Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. ( ), doing business as Walmart, is an American multinational retailing corporation that operates as a chain of hypermarkets, discount department stores, and grocery stores. Headquartered in Bentonville, Arkansas, the company was founded by Sam Walton in 1962 and incorporated on October 31, 1969. s of 31, 2017 , Walmart has 11,695 stores and clubs in 28countries, under a total of 63banners. The company operates under the name Walmart in the United States and Canada. It operates as Walmart de México y Centroamérica in Mexico and Central America, as Asda in the United Kingdom, as the Seiyu Group in Japan, and as Best Price in India. It has wholly owned operations in Argentina, Chile, Brazil, and Canada. It also owns and operates the Sam's Club retail warehouses.
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Ivanhoé Cambridge Ivanhoé Cambridge is a Canadian real estate company with assets around the globe. Its areas of activity are investment, development, asset management, operations and leasing. The Company's real estate portfolio consists primarily of shopping centres, office buildings and multiresidential properties. It also has ownership interests in logistics services (storage and distribution) buildings, real estate investment funds and hotels. The first entity in the real estate portfolio, Ivanhoe Corporation, was founded in 1953 by Sam Steinberg, the Montreal businessman who built Steinberg's grocery store chain. Ivanhoé Cambridge, headquartered in Montreal, has more than 1,400 employees worldwide. The value of its assets, located mostly in Canada, the United States, Europe, Brazil and Asia, totalled CA$56 billion at December 31, 2016. Ivanhoé Cambridge is a real estate subsidiary of the Caisse de dépôt et placement du Québec, one of Canada’s biggest institutional fund managers.
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Sinofert Holdings Sinofert Holdings Limited or Sinofert (), formerly Sinochem Hong Kong Holdings Limited, is the largest all-rounded fertilizer enterprise in China. It is engaged in chemical fertilizer business in China, which involves research and development, production, procurement, distribution of various fertilizers.
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Shurfine Shurfine International is a distributor of private label and store brands for independent supermarkets and convenience stores throughout the United States. Until 2016, Shurfine was a unit of Western Family Foods, based in Portland, Oregon and serviced by Associated Wholesalers, Inc. (AWI). In 2016, Western Family was acquired by Topco.
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Arasco ARASCO is a closed joint stock company in Saudi Arabia. It is one of the GCC’s most prominent national food companies, ranking among the largest companies in Saudi Arabia. It is a privately held feed-to-food company. It is Arabian Agricultural Services Company (ARASCO), a food security enterprise and the parent company of six strategic business units. Its business is privately held by Saudi Arabian shareholders.
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Harvest Operations Harvest Operations Corp. is a Canadian oil and natural gas company based in Calgary, Alberta. Unlike many oil and gas trusts, which consist only of production fields, Harvest had both "upstream" (oil and gas wells) and "downstream" (refining and distilling) components. It operated as an open-ended investment trust in Canada, and was one of the equities known as "Canroys" – short for "Canadian royalty trusts." In 2009 the Korea National Oil Corporation made a buyout offer for Harvest, which was accepted, with shareholder approval. The trust was delisted from the Toronto Stock Exchange and the New York Stock Exchange in December 2009.
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Pathmark Pathmark was a supermarket chain in the Northeastern United States. The chain was started in 1968 when a member of the ShopRite retailer's cooperative broke away to go into business for itself. Pathmark stores were liquidated and closed in 2015 following the bankruptcy of its parent company The Great Atlantic and Pacific Tea Company. The intellectual assets and brand name were acquired by Allegiance Retail Services during A&P's bankruptcy in 2016 for $1 million.
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Publix Publix Super Markets, Inc., commonly known as Publix, is an employee-owned, American supermarket chain headquartered in Lakeland, Florida. Founded in 1930 by George W. Jenkins, Publix is a private corporation that is wholly owned by present and past employees. It is considered the largest employee owned company in the world. Publix operates throughout the Southeastern United States, with locations in Florida (776), Georgia (185), Alabama (65), South Carolina (58), Tennessee (41), North Carolina (25), and Virginia (4).
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Argus Corporation The Argus Corporation was an investment holding company based in Toronto, Ontario. During the 1960s and 1970s, it was the most powerful and best known conglomerate in Canada, at one time controlling the companies making up 10 percent of all shares traded daily on the Toronto Stock Exchange.
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Ritchies Stores Ritchies is the largest independent supermarket chain in Australia, owned by a group of private investors including Metcash. Ritchies, also known as "Ritchies Supa IGA", have the majority of their stores located in Victoria.
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Burger King Burger King (BK) is an American global chain of hamburger fast food restaurants. Headquartered in the unincorporated area of Miami-Dade County, Florida, the company was founded in 1953 as InstaBurger King, a Jacksonville, Florida-based restaurant chain. After Insta-Burger King ran into financial difficulties in 1954, its two Miami-based franchisees David Edgerton and James McLamore purchased the company and renamed it "Burger King". Over the next half-century, the company would change hands four times, with its third set of owners, a partnership of TPG Capital, Bain Capital, and Goldman Sachs Capital Partners, taking it public in 2002. In late 2010, 3G Capital of Brazil acquired a majority stake in the company, in a deal valued at US$3.26 billion. The new owners promptly initiated a restructuring of the company to reverse its fortunes. 3G, along with partner Berkshire Hathaway, eventually merged the company with the Canadian-based doughnut chain Tim Hortons, under the auspices of a new Canadian-based parent company named Restaurant Brands International.
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Safeway (UK) Safeway was a chain of supermarkets and convenience stores in the United Kingdom. It started as a subsidiary of the American Safeway Inc., before being sold off in 1987.
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China Oceanwide Holdings Group China Oceanwide Holdings Group Co., Ltd. () known also as China Oceanwide is a Chinese privately owned investment company. It is the parent company of publicly traded company Oceanwide Holdings as well as the largest shareholder of another public company Minsheng Holding.
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Fred C. Koch Fred Chase Koch ( ; September 23, 1900 – November 17, 1967) was an American chemical engineer and entrepreneur who founded the oil refinery firm that later became Koch Industries, a privately held company which, under the principal ownership and leadership of Koch's sons, Charles and David, is listed by "Forbes," as of 2015, as the second-largest privately held company in the United States.
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Incitec Pivot Incitec Pivot Ltd. () is an Australian multinational corporation that manufactures fertiliser, explosives chemicals, and mining service. Incitec Pivot is the largest supplier of fertilisers in Australia; the largest supplier of explosives products and services in North America; and the second largest supplier of explosives products and services in the world. The company began trading on the ASX on 30 July 2003 having been formed as the result of a merger between Incitec Fertilizers and the Pivot group, and substantially expanded with the acquisition of Southern Cross Fertilisers in 2006 and Dyno Nobel in 2008.
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Operation Flood Operation Flood, launched in 1970, was a project of India's National Dairy Development Board (NDDB), which was the world's biggest dairy development program. It transformed India from a milk-deficient nation into the world's largest milk producer, surpassing the USA in 1998, with about 17 percent of global output in 2010–11. In 30 years it doubled milk available per person, and made dairy farming India’s largest self-sustainable rural employment generator. It was launched to help farmers direct their own development, placing control of the resources they create in their own hands. All this was achieved not merely by mass production, but by production by the masses.