Evergrande Group
| File:Evergrande Group logo.png | |
| Company type | Public |
|---|---|
| SEHK: 3333 | |
| Industry | Real estate |
| Founded | 1996 |
| Founder | Xu Jiayin (Hui Ka Yan) |
| Headquarters | , China |
Area served | China |
Key people | Xu Jiayin (Chairman) |
| Revenue | 507,248,000,000 renminbi (2020)  |
| 69,712,000,000 renminbi (2020) | |
| 31,400,000,000 renminbi (2020) | |
| Total assets | 2,301,159,000,000 renminbi (2020) |
Number of employees | 123,276 (2020) |
| Website | www |
The Evergrande Group or the Evergrande Real Estate Group (previously Hengda Group) is China's second-largest property developer by sales. It is based in southern China's Guangdong Province, and sells apartments mostly to upper and middle-income dwellers.
The company is incorporated in the Cayman Islands.
History
Formerly called the Hengda Group, Evergrande was founded by Xu Jiayin in the southern Chinese city of Guangzhou in 1996.
In October 2009 the company raised $722 million in an initial public offering on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange.[1]
The group bought football club Guangzhou Evergrande F.C. in 2010 and invested heavily, and under Marcello Lippi they won the 2013 AFC Champions League. The group has a mineral water brand Evergrande Spring (恒大冰泉)[2] and a football tutoring school.
In recent years Chinese property developers like Evergrande and Dalian Wanda have made forays into "alternative, income-generating businesses away from the property market". For example, Evergrande has expanded into solar panels, pig farming, agribusiness, and baby formula.[3]
Operations
The firm now has projects in over 170 cities in the country. It is one of the ten largest real estate developers in Mainland China, and one of the five largest real estate developers in Guangdong Province, the other four being Country Garden, Guangzhou R&F Properties, Hopson Development, and Agile Property.
It currently owns 45.8 million square metres of development land and real estate projects in 22 cities (Guangzhou, Tianjin, Shenyang, Wuhan, Kunming, Chengdu, Chongqing, Nanjing, Zhengzhou, Luoyang, Changsha, Nanning, Xian, Taiyuan, Guiyang, etc.) in Mainland China, which ranks second among the Mainland real estate developers, just after Country Garden.[4]
Alibaba CEO Jack Ma has a minority share of the company.
As of 2016, owner Xu Jiayin was the eighth richest Chinese man, worth $4.9 billion.[5]
The under-construction Ocean Flower Island, located in Hainan, is one of their major projects.
The Hong Kong Securities and Futures Commission suspended an American investor who criticized the company, which "has raised concerns over freedom of speech in Hong Kong’s financial markets."[6]
See also
References
- ^ Or, Amy (October 30, 2009). "Evergrande Gets $722 Million". Wall Street Journal.
- ^ 恒大冰泉概览
- ^ Josh Noble; Gabriel Wildau (January 15, 2015). "Dalian Wanda changes property strategy after IPO". Financial Times.
- ^ "Evergrande launches IPO with generous terms", Finance Asia
- ^ [1], Zeenews
- ^ Gough, Neil (2016-10-20). "Hong Kong Tribunal Suspends Investor Who Criticized Chinese Firm". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2016-10-21.
External links
- Evergrande Group
- Evergrande last year net profit of 11.78 billion by 46.9 percent into the regulation of the biggest winner
