New World Department Store China Limited is a

Hong Kong Hong Kong)., Legally Hong Kong, China in international treaties and organizations. is a special administrative region of China. With 7.5 million residents in a territory, Hong Kong is the fourth most densely populated region in the wor ...

–based holding company for

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chains in the

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. New World Department Store China is a

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of another listed company

New World Development New World Development Company Limited (NWD) is a Hong Kong–based company focused on property, hotels, infrastructure and services and department stores. It was established on 29 May 1970 by Cheng Yu-tung. The company is publicly listed on t ...

. It has self-owned stores and managed stores in mainland China and in the past in Hong Kong. It operates under two

brands A brand is a name, term, design, symbol or any other feature that distinguishes one seller's goods or service from those of other sellers. Brands are used in business, marketing, and advertising for recognition and, importantly, to create and ...

: "New World" () and ''Ba-li Chun-tian'' (). The

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Henry Cheng Henry Cheng Kar-shun, GBM, GBS ( Chinese: 鄭家純; born 11 December 1946) is a Hong Kong billionaire property developer. Cheng is the elder son of Cheng Yu-tung, who founded Hong Kong-listed New World Development, of which Henry succeeded ...

, the son of the Hong Kong

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Cheng Yu-tung Cheng Yu-tung GBM (; 8 August 1925 – 29 September 2016) was a Hong Kong billionaire with extensive property investment, development and service businesses, hotels, infrastructure, jewellery retailing and transportation interests in Hong Kong, ...

. It was listed on the

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with

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price of HK$5.8 per share.New World taps into retain boom with IPO
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* Companies listed on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange Civilian-run enterprises of China Department stores of Hong Kong Department stores of China New World Development subsidiaries Retail companies established in 1993 Retailing in Hong Kong {{HongKong-company-stub

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