Wing On
Wing Sang, for example, began trading Fijian bananas into Sydney's markets in the 1890s, and eventually established a department store, allegedly along the lines of Sydney's Anthony Hordern's, in Hong Kong in 1900. Branches in Canton and Shanghai followed, and by the 1960s, the Wing Sang Company was involved in banking, hotels and various manufacturing enterprises. The Wing On firm similarly grew out of fruit trading in the Haymarket to become a multi-faceted business empire. Eventually, three of the four companies that controlled the four largest modern department stores of Hong Kong and Shanghai, known locally as the "Four Great Companies", were founded by the partners of Wing Sang and Wing On: Wing On by the Kwok brothers of Wing On and their cousin George Kwok Bew of Wing Sang, Sincere by Ma Ying-piu of Wing Sang, and the Sun by Choy Chong of Wing Sang. The fourth, Sun Sun, was also established by Chinese-Australian traders from Sydney.