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Western Enterprise in Late Ch'ing China: A Selective Survey of Jardine, Matheson & Company's Operations, 1842–1895 in Harvard East Asian Monographs 26. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press. ISBN 978-0-674-95010-8. Matheson Connell, Carol (2004). A Business in Risk – Jardine Matheson and the Hong Kong Trading Industry. Praeger.
William Jardine and James Matheson, the firm's founders 1846 view of Jardine's original building from Causeway Bay, Hong Kong.. The firm of Jardine, Matheson & Company emerged in 1832 from an evolving process of partnership changes in the trading business Cox & Reid, a partnership established in 1782 between John Cox and John Reid, the latter having been agent of the Austrian trading company ...
The founder of the dynasty, William Keswick was born in 1834, in Dumfriesshire in the Scottish Lowlands.His grandmother, Jean Jardine Johnstone was an older sister of Dr. William Jardine, the founder of Jardine Matheson & Company His father Thomas Keswick had married Margaret Johnstone, Jardine's niece and daughter of Jean, and entered the Jardine business.
In 1912, Jardine, Matheson & Co. and the Keswicks would eventually buy out the shares of the Matheson family in the firm although the name is still retained. The company was managed by several of Jardine's family members and their descendants throughout the decades, including the Keswicks, Buchanan-Jardines, Landales, Bell-Irvings, Patersons ...
Jardine Matheson said it will transfer its Mercedes-Benz business in China to its mainland car showroom affiliate, Zhongsheng Group, in a US$1.3 billion cash and shares deal that would raise its ...
James Matheson, one of the two founders of the Hong Kong-based Jardine Matheson trading company, founded Matheson & Company in 1848 after he returned from China. [1] The company was created in a reorganization of Magniac-Jardine and Company, which had come close to liquidation in the 1847 financial crisis. [2]
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After an extensive search for a senior partner, Hollingworth settled on Jardine, [7] [8] whose business reputation was already well known throughout Asia. Magniac and Jardine also invited James Matheson to join the firm. [9] Magniac returned to England in 1828 with the firm in the hands of two of the most talented traders in Asia.