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| Status | Defunct |
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| Founded | 1928 (as limited company) |
| Country of origin | Hong Kong |
| Headquarters location | 18Fenwick Street |
| Distribution | Hong Kong |
| Publication types | books and newspaper |
| Imprints | The Kung Sheung Evening Press |
| Owner(s) | Ho Shai Lai family |
| The Industrial and Commercial Daily Press Limited | |||||||||||
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| Traditional Chinese | 工商日報有限公司 | ||||||||||
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| The Industrial and Commercial Daily Press | |||||||||||
| Traditional Chinese | 工商日報社 | ||||||||||
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| Editorial Board of The Industrial and Commercial Daily Press | |||||||||||
| Traditional Chinese | 工商日報編輯部 | ||||||||||
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| Sales Department of The Industrial and Commercial Daily Press | |||||||||||
| Traditional Chinese | 工商日報營業部 | ||||||||||
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| Industrial and Commercial Daily Press Book Series | |||||||||||
| Traditional Chinese | 工商日報叢書 | ||||||||||
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The Industrial and Commercial Daily Press Limited was the editor and publisher of the three newspapers in British Hong Kong, The Kung Sheung Daily News (Chinese: 工商日報; lit. 'Industrial and Commercial Daily News'), The Kung Sheung Evening News (Chinese: 工商晚報; lit. 'Industrial and Commercial Evening News') and The Tien Kwong Morning News (Chinese: 天光報; lit. 'Dawn News'). The company also wrote and published some special report, fiction and non-fiction.
The limited company was incorporated in 1928 and was winding up in 1996.[1] The predecessor of the company was founded circa the same year with the daily newspaper in 1925.
The company was located in Gage Street, and then on 43 Des Voeux Road Central, and then on 18 Fenwick Street, Wan Chai,[2]: 310 all on Hong Kong Island.
According to the filings in the Hong Kong Companies Registry, the first available Annual Return (after World War II) in 1946, shown Sir Robert Hotung and his son Ho Shai Lai [zh] owned 500 out of 1,850 shares, Kwan Cho-yiu 140 shares, journalist Wu Dit Ng (Chinese: 胡秩五; Jyutping: wu4 dit6 ng5) 50 shares, as well as other shareholders; the nominal largest shareholder was a corporate body "Sang Kee" (Chinese: 生記; Jyutping: saang1 gei3) for 1,000 shares.[3] "Sang Kee", according to a biography of Ho Shai Lai, was one of the business of Ho Shai Lai.[2]: 296
The last Annual Return of the company in 1994, shown Ho Shai Lai and his wife, late Hesta Hung (d.1991) owned most of the shares, with his nephew Eric Hotung and a Liberia-incorporated as minority shareholders.[4]
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