Lai Sun Group () is a

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conglomerate. It was founded by garment billionaire and

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Lim Por-yen Lim Por-yen（21 December 1914 – 18 February 2005) was a Hong Kong industrialist. He founded the Lai Sun Group, and his family was the biggest shareholder of Asia Television. Biography Lim was born in Chaoyang, Shantou, on 21 December 1 ...

. Its businesses include

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, hotel, telecom,

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and entertainment. Lai Sun is working with

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to build an

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. Lai Sun Group is developing Novotown at

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, China. It is an integrated tourism and entertainment project. Phase one has been completed, and features two indoor attractions Lionsgate Entertainment World and

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. It also includes the 494-room Hengqin Hyatt Regency Hotel and mixed-use shopping centre with a host of restaurants and bars. Phase one costs about 5 billion yuan (HK$6.16 billion). Phase 2 will include an interactive football experience centre and automobile experience centre in partnership with

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football club and

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respectively. The group consists of several companies and some of them are listed on the

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. * Crocodile Garments * Lai Sun Garment (International) Limited * Lai Fung Holdings Limited * Lai Sun Development Company Limited * eSun Holdings Limited (0571.HK)

Leadership

The Lai Sun Group has been run by Lim Por-yen and his family since its founding in 1947; the group is currently being run by the second generation of the family. Lim first became Chairman and an Executive Director in the company in 1959.

List of chairmen

(1959–1999); honorary chairman until 2005 #

Peter Lam Peter Lam Kin-ngok, GBS (, born 7 August 1957) is a Hong Kong businessman and billionaire who has developed a reputation in Hong Kong's business, media, and entertainment industry, as well as in Asia's hospitality and food and beverage industrie ...

(since 1999)

List of CEOs

# Peter Lam (1977–2005) # Julius Lau (since 2005)

References

External links

* {{official website, http://www.laisun.com/ 1947 establishments in Hong Kong Conglomerate companies established in 1947 Conglomerate companies of China Conglomerate companies of Hong Kong Companies listed on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange