FAZIO GROUP OF COMPANIES

From its inception in 1983, as Canada’s largest international trading company, specializing in the global counter-trade (barter) of bulk commodities, and operating in 48 countries, The Fazio Group of Companies has grown rapidly through strong management, innovation and adaptation, and by means of organic growth and mergers & acquisitions, to become a multi-dimensional manufacturing, trading and investment organization with offices and operations that span the globe.

Today, The Fazio Group of Companies is a strong, well established and highly diversified multinational conglomerate, comprising 39 companies, that is actively engaged in diverse manufacturing (cooking oil & processed food products, cosmetics & beauty products, pharmaceuticals, nutritional supplements, PPEs, chemicals, disinfectants, environmental products, fishmeal, LED lighting products, cigarettes & tobacco products, etc), shipping & transportation, bonded-warehousing & distribution, real estate (property) construction & development, pre-built housing, international bulk commodities and oil trading, ship-building, hotels, agricultural development & processing, poultry processing, fisheries development & processing, pharmaceuticals/biotechnology research & development, water purification & processing, biofuels & alternative energy technologies, environmental products & technologies, LED lighting technologies, thermal power plants & clean energy technologies, gold, iron ore & coal mining & processing, investment banking, private equity and financial investments.

With head offices in Hong Kong and regional offices and operations in 19 countries, covering four continents, The Fazio Group of Companies now employs over 15,000 people worldwide, has global assets of over US$ 1.8 billion and generates annual revenues in excess of US$ 1.3 billion.

The Fazio Group is significantly invested in the People's Republic of China (PRC) with over US$ 800 million of its assets invested there. It owns and operates nine Sino-Foreign joint venture companies and two wholly-owned pharmaceutical companies, in eleven cities, in the areas of thermal power plants, pharmaceuticals manufacturing, poultry production & processing, algae and spirulina processing & production, LED energy saving lighting products & technologies and tobacco processing & manufacturing.

The Fazio Group also owns the 73-storey office/commercial/residential building - Hung Cheong Plaza - in Shenzhen, PRC which it built in 1996 and now serves as the Fazio Group's China regional headquarters.