The Great Eagle Group is one of Hong Kong’s leading property and hotel companies. Headquartered in Hong Kong, the Group develops, invests in and manages high quality office, retail, residential and hotel properties in Asia, North America and Europe. Its principal holdings include a 50.91% interest (as at 31 December 2009) in Champion Real Estate Investment Trust, which owns 1.56 million square feet of Grade-A commercial office space in Citibank Plaza in the Central business district of Hong Kong, as well as the office tower and shopping mall of Langham Place comprising a total floor area of 1.29 million square feet in the prime shopping district of Mongkok, Kowloon. In the United States, the Group owns three office buildings with a total floor area of 534,000 square feet. The Group is also active in property management and maintenance services as well as building materials trading.

The Group’s extensive international hotel portfolio currently comprises twelve luxury properties with over 5,000 rooms, including nine luxury hotels branded under the Langham and Langham Place name in Hong Kong, Shanghai, London, Boston, California, Koh Samui, Melbourne and Auckland, two Eaton Hotels in Hong Kong and Shanghai and the Delta Chelsea Hotel in Toronto. Langham Hotels International Limited (a wholly-owned subsidiary of Great Eagle) manages all the hotels with the exception of the Toronto property.

The Group was founded in 1963 and The Great Eagle Company, Limited was its holding company, whose shares were listed on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange in 1972. The Group underwent a re-organisation in 1990 and Great Eagle Holdings Limited, a Bermuda-registered company, became the listed company of the Group in place of The Great Eagle Company, Limited.

The Group had a core profit after tax of approximately HK$1,276 million in the financial year 2009 and a net asset value of approximately HK$22 billion as of 31 December 2009.