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The Charoen Pokphand Group (CP; (タイ語:เจริญโภคภัณฑ์); ) is Thailand's largest private company and is one of world's largest conglomerates. It consists of three core businesses that operate in agribusiness and food, retail, and distribution, and the telecommunications industries with investment in over 20 countries. Founded in 1921, the CP Group currently employs, through its subsidiaries, over 300,000 people with offices and factories worldwide. It is the largest shareholder in one of the world's largest life insurance companies, Ping An, with over US$461 billion in assets. It is also the second largest shareholder (4.9%) in Itochu Corporation of Japan, which does some US$141 billion in revenue. With some 200 subsidiaries in China, CP Group, known in China as "Zheng Da" (正大), was the country's first foreign investor, and, through is extensive investments, is credited with changing the country's dietary habits and leading China's green revolution.〔 ==History== Charoen Pokphand traces its beginnings back to 1921, when the Chinese immigrant brothers Chia Ek Chor (谢易初) and Chia Siew Whooy (谢少飞) started a seed store named Chia Tai Chueng in Bangkok's Chinatown during the reign of King Rama VI. They imported seeds and vegetables from China and exported pigs and eggs to Hong Kong. The company increased its scope from selling vegetable seeds under the trademark of "Rua Bin" (Aero plane) to production of animal feed under Ek Chor’s two elder sons, Jaran Chiaravanont and Montri Jiaravanont. The company further integrated its business to include livestock farming, marketing and distribution, under Dhanin Chearavanont. By the 1970s, the company had a virtual monopoly on the supply of chicken and eggs in Thailand. The company was famous for vertical integration expanding into several business lines, adding breeding farms, slaughterhouses, processed foods production, and, later, its own chain of restaurants. CP had also gone international, launching feedmill operations in Indonesia in 1972, exporting chickens to Japan in 1973, then moving into Singapore in 1976. In the 1980s, as China opened up to foreign firms, the firm became the preferred partner for international brands such as Honda, Wal Mart, and Tesco. CP's family ties with the mainland enabled it to become the first foreign company to establish itself in the newly created Shenzhen Special Economic Zone, where the company set up its Chia Tai Co. () subsidiary. By the early 1990s, CP had launched some 200 subsidiaries in China. CP's massive investment in poultry production on the mainland was credited with changing the country's dietary habits, as per-capita consumption more than doubled by the end of the decade.〔 In 1989, CP joined with Solvay of Belgium to launch Vinythai Co., a manufacturer of polyvinylchloride. The following year, the company formed a partnership with the U.S. telecommunications firm of NYNEX to launch TelecomAsia (TA) and began construction of its own fiber-optic telephone network.〔 Starting in 1993, many subsidiaries went public. TA, Charoen Pokphand Feedmill, Siam Makro and Vinythai were listed publicly at the Stock Exchange of Thailand, as well as its Hong Kong subsidiary, CP Pokphand to the Hong Kong exchange, a Shanghai-based animal feed and poultry group to the Shanghai exchange, a real estate development arm, Hong Kong Fortune, to the Hong Kong exchange, and Ek Chor China Motorcycle to the New York exchange. After the Asian financial crisis in 1997, C.P. consolidated into three business lines under its main “brand names”: foods (C.P. Foods), retail (7-Eleven), and telecommunications (True). The company sold its stakes in the Tesco Lotus venture with Tesco in 2003 due to its crisis policy in order to focus on 7-Eleven, in which, unlike Tesco, CP owns a majority, as its flagship retail arm. However, the company kept its shares in Tesco Lotus outlets in China. In 2013, Charoen Pokphand has got the clearance to buy HSBC's stake of Chinese Ping An Insurance.〔 〕 On May 10, 2013, in spite of a lack of loan from the China Development Bank, HSBC said "it was selling the 15.6 per cent stake at HK$59 a share" to Charoen Pokphand Group.〔 In 2014, CP announced a tie-up with the Japanese general trading company Itochu under which CP acquired 4.9% of Itochu's listed stock for about US$1 billion, and Itochu in turn acquired a 25% stake in a Hong Kong-listed CP group company, CP Pokphand Co., for about US$854 million. This transaction made CP the third-largest shareholder in Itochu, and was marketed as an alliance between the two conglomerates with a focus on developing international food trading opportunities. In 2015, CP and Itochu announced that they would jointly take a US$10.4 billion stake in China's CITIC Group, forming a trilateral alliance with Itochu and CP each holding 10% of CITIC's stock, one of the largest foreign investments in a Chinese state-owned company. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Charoen Pokphand」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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