Asia’s best companies: Slick movers

Hong Kong companies have been rated top in no fewer than seven sectors in Euromoney’s annual survey of the best-managed companies in Asia. Chinese and Malaysian firms are highly rated in energy and entertainment. IT and technology companies headed several country polls last year and the Nasdaq effect and a slack period in the semiconductor market have not prevented analysts from continuing to rate them highly this year.

  Author: Andrew Newby

With all the inevitability of a North Korean by-election, analysts continue to rate Hong Kong’s corporate finest as the best-managed companies in Asia in banking & finance (HSBC), conglomerates (Hutchison Whampoa Limited) and property (Sun Hung Kai Properties).

Hutchison Whampoa (HWL) booked a cool HK$50 billion (US$6.4 billion) profit in the first half of 2000 by selling its 10% stake in Mannesmann to Vodafone. HWL also profited to the tune of approximately HK$6.5

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