Retail

Our retail business mainly comprises supermarket and logistics, and other retail stores operations. As the No. 1 supermarket chain in China, our supermarket business operated over 2,800 stores in the Chinese Mainland and Hong Kong as at the end of December 2009. They include self-operated and franchised stores in multiple formats (e.g. hypermarkets, supermarkets and convenience stores) mainly operated under the brands of "華潤萬家 Vanguard", "華潤蘇果 China Resources Suguo", "蘇果 Suguo", "Vango" and "Ole'". Other retail stores, namely "中藝 Chinese Arts & Crafts" and "華潤堂 CR Care", are engaged in the distribution of traditional Chinese arts and crafts products, antiques, luxury goods, nutritious products, pharmaceutical products as well as general merchandise in the Chinese Mainland and Hong Kong.

   Beverage

The Group is the largest brewer by volume in the Chinese Mainland. It had about 70 breweries nationwide with an annual production capacity of about 14 million kiloliters as at the end of December 2009. Famous brands include "雪花 Snow", which is the national brand accounting for 86.5% of our total beer sales volume of approximately 8.4 million kiloliters in 2009. "雪花 Snow" is the single largest beer brand in the Chinese Mainland and one of the world's largest beer brands by volume.

Branded "怡寶 C'estbon", our purified water operation has a leading position in Guangdong Province. Its sales volume amounted to approximately 1.6 million kiloliters in 2009.

   Food Processing and Distribution

Ng Fung Hong is a food conglomerate engaged in food research and development, production, processing, wholesaling, retailing, transportation and international trading. It provides mainly meat products, aquatic products and assorted foodstuffs. It is the largest supplier of Chinese foodstuffs in Hong Kong where its fresh meat, frozen meat and Chinese delicacies enjoy dominant positions in the market. It also operates and manages Asia’s most modern abattoir in Sheung Shui, Hong Kong. In the Chinese Mainland, it has established vertical integration in its high quality meat supply chain, forming strategic geographical distribution of its food business mainly in the Yangtze River Delta and Pearl River Delta regions. Ng Fung Hong also runs China’s largest integrated marine fishing company in West Africa. Its pollutant-free deep-sea aquatic products are popular among consumers in more than 30 countries and regions including Europe, Asia and Africa.