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13-411: Amoy Gardens comprises 19 blocks, lettered A to S, with heights ranging from 30 to 40 floors. The eight blocks A-H are 33 storeys/105 m high, and situated on a podium 14 m high, which houses a commercial centre. These eight blocks have eight flats per floor arranged in a cruciform shape. Each arm of the cruciform contains two apartments. There is a shopping arcade (Amoy Plaza) as well as a food square within

26-574: Is a manufacturer of cooking sauces and condiments in Hong Kong . Its products, which now include foodstuffs such as frozen foods and instant foods for heating in a microwave oven , are sold around the world. It was acquired in 2018 by CITIC Capital , a subsidiary of the CITIC Group . Its former factory site in Ngau Tau Kok was sold in the 1970s and has since been turned into an apartment complex called

39-1168: The Amoy Gardens . Amoy ( 廈門 ) is an English romanisation of the Min Nan pronunciation of the name of the city in Fujian province, China known in Mandarin as Xiamen . In 1908, Tao Fa, the predecessor of the company, was founded in Xiamen for producing soy sauce and soy milk . In 1928, Amoy was set up in Hong Kong. In a 1947 advertisement, the company was named as Amoy Canning Corporation, Ltd. ( Chinese : 香港淘化大同公司 ; Cantonese Yale : Hēunggóng Tòufa Daaihtùng Gūngsī ) with factory in Ngau Tau Kok and head office at Bonham Strand in Sheung Wan . In 1977, Sime Darby group acquired 50% of Amoy Canning. In 1980, Hang Lung Development acquired 63% of Amoy Canning Corp. (HK) Ltd In 1983, fifty percent of Amoy Food

52-503: The Amoy Gardens estate. The site was purchased by Amoy Canning in the 1920s for use as a factory. Amoy put the site of approximately 222,560 square feet (20,677 m) up for auction in March 1977, intending to move their manufacturing operations elsewhere in stages. The auction failed as the reserve price was not reached. Subsequently, Hang Lung Development signed an agreement to purchase

65-401: The factors that contributed to the rapid spread of SARS in that complex. The estate was decontaminated and the residents were able to return. Later, the complex was retrofitted with an auxiliary floor drainage system that included fresh water interlocks to prevent regurgitation of sewer gases. According to the 2016 by-census , Amoy Gardens had a population of 10,721. The median age was 37.7 and

78-491: The final phase was completed in 1987. Toward the end of March 2003, an outbreak of SARS occurred among residents of Amoy Gardens. By 15 April 2003, there had been a total of 321 cases of SARS in the estate. A concentration of cases was recorded in block E, accounting for 41% of the cumulative total. Block C (15%), block B (13%) and block D (13%) recorded the second, third and fourth highest incidence of SARS infections. The other cases (18%) were scattered in 11 other blocks. Most of

91-447: The initial 107 patients from Block E lived in flats that were vertically arranged. All residents were subsequently moved to Lei Yue Mun and Lady MacLehose Holiday Village for isolation. In mid-2003, authorities found that the design of bathroom floor drains lacked a replenishment system to keep the water traps filled, allowing virus-laden aerosols to seep into bathrooms, exacerbated by the draw of bathroom exhaust fans. These were among

104-748: The majority of residents (95.6 per cent) were of Chinese ethnicity. The average household comprised 2.4 persons. The median monthly household income of all households was HK$ 34,000. Amoy Gardens is served by the Kowloon Bay station of the MTR metro system. In addition, the estate is served by numerous bus routes. Amoy Gardens is in Primary One Admission (POA) School Net 46. Within the school net are multiple aided schools (operated independently but funded with government money); no government primary schools are in this net. Amoy Food Amoy Food Limited

117-405: The name suggests, it was a strand and close to shore in the past though currently far from the seafront after several reclamations over history. This street renders the early shore line after 1842. The streets are named after Sir George Bonham , the third governor of Hong Kong (1848–1854), who led the reconstruction effort of Sheung Wan after a fire destroyed part of it in 1851. This

130-471: The site in April 1977 for about HK$ 200 million. Under the agreement, Amoy would take a share of the profits from the site's redevelopment. The estate was built in four phases. The construction contract for the estate's first phase, comprising seven residential blocks (blocks A-G) and retail space, was awarded to Hong Kong contractor Shui On Construction on 18 October 1979. The first phase was completed in 1981, while

143-634: Was acquired by Pillsbury . In 1987, a manufacturing plant was set up in Tai Po Industrial Estate in Tai Po . In 1988, it was reported to be the largest soy sauce maker in the area, producing 6,000 tonnes a year. In 1991, Amoy became wholly owned by the French dairy products company Danone . On 12 January 2006, Danone sold the company to Ajinomoto of Japan. In 2013, Amoy frozen food's factory in China

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156-462: Was moved to Tai Po Industrial Estate in Hong Kong. In 2018, Ajinomoto sold the company to CITIC Group of China. In Europe, Amoy products are distributed by Kraft Heinz . This article about a Hong Kong company is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Bonham Strand Bonham Strand ( Chinese : 文咸街) is a combination of two streets in Sheung Wan , Hong Kong : Bonham Strand (文咸東街) and Bonham Strand West (文咸西街). As

169-475: Was the government's first large-scale reclamation and road construction project. Bonham Strand (文咸東街) starts from Queen's Road Central near Cosco Tower , with several junctions with Jervois Street , Mercer Street , Hillier Street , Clevery Street , Morris Street and Wing Lok Street , then returning to another section of Queen's Road Central in Possession Point . The street is comparatively low to

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