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P&O Nedlloyd is one of the largest container carriers in the world, with routes connecting all parts of the globe and a yearly turnover of around US$4 billion. The company operates a fleet of 130 owned and chartered
vessels, providing connections to more than 250 main ports and serving 120 countries.
P&O Nedlloyd also offers specialist logistics and supply chain management services, in
the form of the company's Value Added Services range. P&O Nedlloyd’s Asian regional office is located in
Hong Kong and the company is extensively represented by a network of offices in the SAR
and throughout South China. Year joined, 1907 PricewaterhouseCoopersThe firm that is now PricewaterhouseCoopers started business in 1902. Arthur Lowe, an Englishman who had been working with Butterfield & Swire since 1898, established himself as Hong Kong’s first full-time chartered accountant on June 2, 1902. He admitted a partner in 1905 and another in 1908, when the firm became known as Lowe Bingham & Matthews. Being virtually without competition in its earlier years, Lowe Bingham & Matthews experienced significant growth, being fortunate to have amongst its clients many of Hong Kong’s leading businesses of the time – including China Light & Power, Hongkong & Shanghai Bank, Hong Kong & Whampoa Dock, Hutchison, Jardines and Swires. The growth of the firm continued to match that of Hong Kong as a financial and trading centre. With increasing overseas investment here in the years following 1945, it became expedient for the firm to act as local correspondent for the international accounting firms that were expanding from their bases in the U.K. and the U.S. LB&M at one time represented six of the then "big eight" accountancy firms. The alliance with one of these, Price Waterhouse, was formalised in 1974 by a merger between those two firms, although the Chinese name remained as it was by then so well known in the community. In the late 1990s, the global operations of Price Waterhouse and Coopers & Lybrand merged to form PricewaterhouseCoopers. PwC is now the largest of the accountancy practices in Hong Kong, employing around 2,300 people and serving many of the leading commercial organisations in Hong Kong and China.
Year joined, 1908 Shell Hong Kong Limited is an operating company of the world-wide Royal Dutch/Shell Group. Since 1913, Shell has been marketing oil and petrochemical products in Hong Kong, and has been at the forefront of the drive to enable Hong Kong to meet its growing energy needs.
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