Wing Sang Business Registration
Date Published
: Business, department stores
: Sydney
: Sydney
: 1905
Wing Sang & Co. was an import and export fruit merchant and commission agent which operated in Haymarket of Sydney between 1890-1984.
Wing Sang_business registration 1905
<p>Wing Sang & Co. was an import and export fruit merchant and commission agent which operated in Haymarket of Sydney between 1890-1984. Wing Sang was founded in 1890, originally as a fruit shop by a group of Chinese who came from Zhongshan County in Guangdong. </p>
<p>The company registration certificate (1905) shows it was registered as a ‘fruit merchants and commission agents’ by George Bew Kwok (郭标), Mark Joe (馬永燦), James Hing Choy (蔡興), Tuck Sue (萧德), Ying Piu Ma [written as Mark M Puie] (馬應彪), Sam Ick, Ing Chan and Thomas Chong Choy (蔡昌). The registered address of the company was 18-20-22 Campbell Street Sydney. The company rented the larger part of a three-storey commercial building occupying numbers 18-22 (constructed in 1892) from the famous businessman and retailer Samuel Hordern, a director of the Anthony Hordern & Sons Department Store in Sydney. While the company moved out from the 20-22 Campbell Street building around 1911, the building still stands today.</p>
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