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	William Jardine - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		In the mid-1820s, Jardine invited James Matheson, son of a Scottish baronet, to form an enterprise for the China trade.
		Jardine was known as the planner, the tough negotiator and strategist of the firm and Matheson was known as the organization man, who handled the firm's correspondence, books of accounts and finances.
		Matheson retired as taipan in 1843 and handed over to David Jardine, another nephew of Jardine, who in turn would hand over to Robert Jardine, who is the ancestor of the Buchanan-Jardine branch of the family.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/William_Jardine (2014 words)

	Jardine Matheson Holdings Limited - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Jardine Matheson Holdings Limited (SGX: J36), LSE: JAR, often called Jardines or Jardine's, is a multinational company that is incorporated in Bermuda and which trades on the London Stock Exchange and the Singapore Exchange.
		Jardine, Matheson and Co., the most famous foreign hong in China, was founded in Canton on 1st July, 1832.
		Jardines possess a rich fund of experience which was gained in the pioneering years of the last century and which extends through two world wars to the uncertainties of the present day.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Jardine_Matheson (6537 words)

	Jardine Matheson: Definition and Links by Encyclopedian.com - All about Jardine Matheson
		Jardine Matheson, often called "Jardines", is a multinational corporation that is legally based in Bermuda and which trades on the London and Singapore stock exchanges.
		Jardine Matheson was formed in China in 1832 by William Jardine and James Matheson[?], both British citizens from Scotland.
		Jardines was the thinly-disguised inspiration for a series of novels written by James Clavell, including Tai-Pan[?], Gai-Jin[?], and Noble House[?].
	www.encyclopedian.com /ja/Jardine-Matheson.html (283 words)

	Encyclopedia: Jardine Matheson
		Jardine Matheson was formed in China in 1832 by William Jardine and James Matheson (http://www.geo.ed.ac.uk/scotgaz/people/famousfirst628.html), both British citizens from Scotland.
		Jardine Matheson have diversified enormously since, becoming a large conglomerate with operations in several south-east Asian nations and in the UK.
		Jardine House is an office tower in Central, Hong Kong, which, when construction finished in 1973, was the first office tower in Hong Kong and the tallest building in the former British Crown Colony.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Jardine-Matheson (1395 words)

	The Opium Traders
		Jardine Matheson was founded 15 years later after a meeting with another Scots trader, James Matheson from Sutherland.
		Jardine Matheson’s early profits were based on the enforced importation of Indian opium into China.
		Jardine Matheson became the first foreign trading house in Japan, expanding its trade to coal, metals and machinery.
	www.electricscotland.com /history/scotsman/opium_traders.htm (293 words)

	William Jardine (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		In the mid-1820s, Jardine invited James Matheson (1796-1874), son of a Scottish baronet, to form an enterprise for the China trade.
		Jardine was known as the planner, the tough negotiator andstrategist of the firm as Matheson was known as the organization man, who handled the firms books and finances.
		In July 1, 1832, Jardine, Matheson and Company, Ltd., a limited partnership, between WilliamJardine, James Matheson as major partners, and Hollingworth Magniac, Alexander Matheson, Beale, a clock and automaton inventor,and others, as minor partners, was formed in Canton, taking the chinese name 'Ewo' (怡和) meaning 'Happy Harmony',trading opium, tea and other goods.
	www.therfcc.org /william-jardine-9837.html (1551 words)

	Jardine Matheson (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Jardine Matheson, a menudo llamado "Jardines", es una corporación multinacional que se basa legalmente en Bermudas y que negocia en las bolsas de la acción de Londres y de Singapur.
		Jardine Matheson fue formado en China en 1832 por Guillermo Jardine y James Matheson, ambos ciudadanos británicos de Escocia.
		Jardine Matheson ha diversificado enormemente puesto que, el convertirse de las corporaciones más grandes del mundo; han intentado poderosamente olvidarse de sus principios unspeakable, pero un pasado feo tiende para volver a allanar.
	www.yotor.net /wiki/es/ja/Jardine%20Matheson.htm (500 words)

	Honolulu Star-Bulletin Local News
		Jardine started off in 1832 on a bad foot in China, where the company's founders made their fortune selling opium from the colonial outpost of Hong Kong.
		The founders of the giant British firm Jardine Matheson Holdings Ltd. were key players in that war, part of the long, colorful and sometimes controversial relationship between the firm and China.
		William Jardine was born in Dumfriesshire in 1784 and served as ship's surgeon from 1802-1816 in the East India Company, which monopolized the tea trade between China and Europe.
	starbulletin.com /98/04/09/news/story3.html (1448 words)

	ipedia.com: William Jardine Article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Jardine was known as the planner, the tough negotiator and strategist of the firm as Matheson was known as the organization man, who handled the firms books and finances.
		In July 1, 1832, Jardine, Matheson and Company, Ltd, a limited partnership, between William Jardine, James Matheson as major partners, and Hollingworth Magniac, Alexander Matheson, Beale, a clock and automaton inventor, and others, as minor partners, was formed in Canton, taking the chinese name 'Ewo' (怡和) meaning 'Happy Harmony', trading opium, tea and other goods.
		Jardine, Matheson and Co. offered its shares to the public in 1961 under the tenure of taipan Sir Hugh Barton and was oversubscribed 58 times.
	www.ipedia.com /william_jardine.html (1640 words)

	Jardine Matheson -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		In 1876 the company built the first (Line that is the commercial organization responsible for operating a railway system) railway in (A communist nation that covers a vast territory in eastern Asia; the most populous country in the world) China.
		In the (The decade from 1980 to 1989) 1980s Jardines redomiciled to (A group of islands in the Atlantic off the Carolina coast; British colony; a popular resort) Bermuda in anticipation of the return of Hong Kong to Chinese sovereignty.
		Despite this move Jardines remains largely an (The largest continent with 60% of the earth's population; it is joined to Europe on the west to form Eurasia; it is the site of some of the world's earliest civilizations) Asian company.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/j/ja/jardine_matheson.htm (531 words)

	Scotsman.com Heritage & Culture - Scotland's People - The Opium Wars: how Scottish traders fed the habit
		Matheson was born in Sutherland and started out as an employee of the East India Company.
		Matheson himself maintained that he had "never seen a native in the least bestialised by opium smoking." To the Chinese the devastating effects of opium were obvious.
		Matheson became a baronet in 1851 and was one of the richest landowners in Britain.
	heritage.scotsman.com /people.cfm?id=1893222005 (1289 words)

	Bangkok Post 57 PROMINENT ENTERPRISES
		Jardines has expertise in providing quality installation, products and services for all sectors, with a high profile in hotels, factories, hospitals, commercial and residential buildings.
		Jardine commits to providing international-standard mechanical and electrical engineering services by continuously improving the effectiveness of the quality management system in order to fulfill our customers’ satisfaction.
		Jardine Matheson has established itself as one of the leaders in the industry.
	www.bangkokpost.com /57pro2003/jardine.html (297 words)

	The Standard - Jardine Matheson profit leaps - Business Section
		Jardine Matheson Holdings, one of Asia's oldest trading houses, posted an 18 percent jump in first-half underlying profit to US$232 million (HK$1.81 billion), half of which came from its retail and motor units.
		Jardine Matheson said it will pay an interim dividend of 9.35 US cents per share, up 10 percent from 8.5 US cents a year ago.
		Jardine Strategic Holdings, whose interlocking shareholdings with Jardine Matheson are designed to fend off takeover attempts, produced an underlying profit in the first half of US$245 million, up 29 percent from US$190 million a year ago.
	www.thestandard.com.hk /stdn/std/Business/GG28Ae10.html (435 words)

	Alibris: Matheson
		Matheson's early novel, basis for the 1957 classic Hugo Award-winning science fiction film, introduces Scott Carey, once an unremarkable husband and father who finds himself shrinking with no end in sight.
		Long out of print, Matheson' acclaimed novel of World War II was inspired by his term of duty in the war.
		Matheson's first new novel in seven years is a gripping tale of madness, paranoia, and murder.
	www.alibris.com /search/books/author/Matheson_&_Co_Jardine (1113 words)

	A Business in Risk : Jardine Matheson and the Hong Kong Trading Industry: Current Amazon U.S.A. One-Edition Data
		This is not only the first study of Jardine Matheson to systematically uncover the industrial logic of its growth strategy; it is also among the first studies of the Hong Kong trading industry as an adaptive "ecosystem" based on trade, equity, and debt relationships that reduced business risk.
		Understanding the experience of Jardine Matheson will prove valuable to anyone who is eager to learn the lessons of adaptation and survival that marked not only the first period of globalization, but its current incarnation as well.
		The Jardine Matheson content is vast although some highly significant strategic moves, the investment in Trafalgar House and any analysis of the effect of the cross shareholding arrangement, are glaring omissions.
	www.ferretexpert.info /stuff-0275980359.html (330 words)

	Bermuda Stock Exchange (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Jardine Matheson is currently interested in approximately 75% of the issued share capital of Jardine International Motors.
		The privatisation proposal has been requested because Jardine Matheson believes that Jardine International Motors will be able to operate more effectively without the complexity and cost of being a stand-alone listed company, given its uncertain business outlook.
		Jardine Matheson is a multinational group of leading businesses focused primarily on the Asia-Pacific Region.
	www.bsx.com /bsx-shorts/jun00/jardine.htm (482 words)

	Jardine Matheson Holdings Limited - Company Profile - Computer Business Review (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Jardine Matheson Holdings Limited is an Asian-based conglomerate with various business interests in supermarkets and hypermarkets; engineering and construction; transport services; motor trading; property; retailing; restaurants; hotels; and insurance broking.
		Jardine Matheson is a multinational company with a range of activities encompassing financial services, supermarkets and hypermarkets; engineering and construction; transport services; motor trading; property; retailing; restaurants; hotels; and insurance broking.
		Jardine Strategic is a publicly-listed holding company with substantial interests in Jardine Matheson, Dairy Farm, Hongkong Land, Mandarin Oriental and Jardine Cycle and Carriage.
	www.cbronline.com /companyprofile.asp?guid=36A3B4FF-F066-4F52-B23D-FEDFEB9CB0FE (1285 words)

	Jardine Lloyd Thompson - Profile (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Today's Jardine Lloyd Thompson is a direct descendant of the famed "Noble House", Jardine Matheson and Company, with a legacy of establishing not only trade, but the rules of international commerce itself.
		Jardine Matheson, with over 220,000 employees, has diverse business interests, including insurance broking, and is one of the world's largest conglomerates.
		In 1997, Jardine Matheson merged Jardine Insurance Brokers Group with the London-based Lloyd Thompson Group.
	www.jltcanada.com /about/profile.htm (238 words)

	Jardine Matheson
		The thistle and the jade : a celebration of 150 years of Jardine, Matheson and Co
		Mandarins and Merchants: Jardine, Matheson, and Co., a China Agency of the Early Nineteenth Century
		For years, Jardine has fired a cannon shot at every noon in Causeway Bay, by Victoria Harbor, slightly eastward of the former Kellett Island.
	news-server.org /j/ja/jardine_matheson.html (360 words)

	Jardine - new and used books
		Lisa Jardine's attention to the material side of things, to the profusion of goods that characterized the Renaissance and the varied energies expended in acquiring them, is an important explanatory complement to the many histories of the period that have dwelt on the sublime works of art'.
		Jardine explores Wren's personal motivations and passions beyond his public achievements, and the emerging new world of late 17th century science and ideas.
		Jardine's dealt largely in lace machinery, selling their own manufacture and buying up bankrupt stock for resale.
	www.isbn.pl /A-jardine (1042 words)

	File 10a - 1825-1850 - Merchants and Bankers Listings (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Matheson is later talking with McIntosh and Co. of Calcutta, who support Matheson, possibly as McIntosh are dissatisfied with Dent's money-handling in London.
		Matheson then returns to China in Sept. to set up Matheson and Co. William Jardine has meantime become senior partner in Magniac and Co., Holkingworth remaining at Jardine's pleasure.
		On 1 November, 1827, Matheson closes down Yrissari and Co. and Matheson and Matheson's nephew, Alexander, join with Jardine in Magniac and Co. Hugh the other nephew of Matheson leaves for India.
	www.danbyrnes.com.au /merchants/merchants10a.htm (17920 words)

	ARCHIVES OF JARDINE, MATHESON & CO
		The archives of Jardine, Matheson and Co. Ltd were presented to Cambridge University Library in 1935.
		Access to the archives is subject to the regulations of the University Library and to permission from Matheson and Co. Ltd, the London correspondents of Jardine, Matheson and Co. Ltd of Hong Kong.
		The Directors of these firms are conscious of the unique historical interest and value of the archives, and are prepared to give permission to bona fide students to consult them in connection with research projects relating to a definite period or a specific topic.
	www.lib.cam.ac.uk /Handbook/applicationJM.html (644 words)

	Jardine Matheson Holdings Limited - Fact Sheet - Hoover's
		The British no longer govern Hong Kong, but don't tell Jardine Matheson Holdings (JMH), which governs the many interests of its affiliate Jardine Strategic Holdings; one of the oldest of the Hong Kong hongs (diversified trading companies) and one of the few still in British hands.
		JMH's subsidiaries include Jardine Pacific and Jardine Motors Group, Asian supermarket operator Dairy Farm, and Hongkong Land, which owns prime real estate in Hong Kong.
		Members of the Keswick family, descendants of the co-founder William Jardine, control JMH and Jardine Strategic through a complex ownership structure.
	hoovers.com /jardine-matheson/--ID__41847--/freeuk-co-factsheet.xhtml (348 words)

	Overview of Sir James Matheson (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Born in Lairg, Matheson became a trader in India before moving to China where he joined William Jardine (1784 - 1843) in the partnership of Jardine Matheson & Co. The company, founded in the 1820s, prospered through the opium trade with China.
		Matheson returned to Scotland in 1842 and purchased the Isle of Lewis, where he made his home.
		He implemented various schemes to mitigate poverty in the islands, which were in the grip of the potato famine at the time.
	www.geo.ed.ac.uk /scotgaz/people/famousfirst628.html (212 words)

	The Korea Times : First Western Business in Korea: Jardine, Matheson & Company (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The first Western business in Korea was Jardine, Matheson & Company, a British firm with offices throughout China.
		Paul George von Mollendorff, the first Western advisor to Korea made the initial negotiations with the company in early 1883, but this was not the first dealing that the company had in Korea.
		These attempts failed, partially because he was unable to find the mouth of the Han River, and also due to the increased anti-foreign/Christian movement that had swept the country.
	times.hankooki.com /lpage/opinion/200506/kt2005061920590354150.htm (933 words)

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