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Wing On
Wing On Department Stores (Hong Kong) Limited (Chinese: 永安百貨有限公司), often shortened to Wing On or Wing On Department Stores, is a department store company in Hong Kong, a subsidiary of Wing On Company International Limited.
The head office is in Wing On Centre (永安中心) in Sheung Wan.
Until it was nationalised in 1966, Wing On's Shanghai branch was one of the "four great companies" of Shanghai.
Brothers James Gock Lock (Kwok Lok) (郭樂) and Philip Gock Chin (Kwok Chuen) (郭泉) started the Wing On fruit store in Australia in 1897. Wing On imported nuts, tea, rice, fireworks and ginger from China. The original "Wing On Building", located at 37 Ultimo Road in Haymarket, New South Wales, in Sydney's Chinatown, is now a hotel.
In 1907, James, Philip and their other brother William Gock Son (Kwok Sun) returned to Hong Kong with accumulated savings and founded the Wing on Company, the second Chinese-owned department store in Hong Kong. They expanded to Shanghai in 1918.
The Kwok brothers later went on to found Wing On Bank.[citation needed]
It has four outlets in Hong Kong, after the closure of Taikoo Shing Store in 2015, with 310,000 square meters (3,300,000 sq ft) of shopping space:
The branch at the Wing On Centre was prominently featured in the climactic sequence to the 1985 Jackie Chan film Police Story.
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Wing On
Wing On Department Stores (Hong Kong) Limited (Chinese: 永安百貨有限公司), often shortened to Wing On or Wing On Department Stores, is a department store company in Hong Kong, a subsidiary of Wing On Company International Limited.
The head office is in Wing On Centre (永安中心) in Sheung Wan.
Until it was nationalised in 1966, Wing On's Shanghai branch was one of the "four great companies" of Shanghai.
Brothers James Gock Lock (Kwok Lok) (郭樂) and Philip Gock Chin (Kwok Chuen) (郭泉) started the Wing On fruit store in Australia in 1897. Wing On imported nuts, tea, rice, fireworks and ginger from China. The original "Wing On Building", located at 37 Ultimo Road in Haymarket, New South Wales, in Sydney's Chinatown, is now a hotel.
In 1907, James, Philip and their other brother William Gock Son (Kwok Sun) returned to Hong Kong with accumulated savings and founded the Wing on Company, the second Chinese-owned department store in Hong Kong. They expanded to Shanghai in 1918.
The Kwok brothers later went on to found Wing On Bank.[citation needed]
It has four outlets in Hong Kong, after the closure of Taikoo Shing Store in 2015, with 310,000 square meters (3,300,000 sq ft) of shopping space:
The branch at the Wing On Centre was prominently featured in the climactic sequence to the 1985 Jackie Chan film Police Story.