Chow Tai Fook Jewellery Group Limited history, profile and corporate video
Chow Tai Fook Jewellery Group Limited is a jewellery group headquartered in Hong Kong. Its retail network spans across China, Japan, Korea, Southeast Asia, and the United States.
The Group’s brand portfolio comprises the CHOW TAI FOOK flagship brand and other individual brands including HEARTS ON FIRE, ENZO, SOINLOVE and MONOLOGUE.
Chow Tai Fook Jewellery offers a complete business model, from raw material to sales, through three market value chain segments: Upstream (mining process), Midstream (polish process) and Downstream (selling process).
HISTORY
The Chow Tai Fook group was founded in 1929 when Chow Chi-Yuen opened the first Chow Tai Fook gold jewellery store in Guangzhou, China.
In 1939, the first Chow Tai Fook Jewellery pos was opened in Hong Kong.
In 1961 the company was incorporated and launched as Chow Tai Fook Jewellery Co., Ltd.
In 1970, Chow Tai Fook pioneered and launched 999.9 gold jewellery products in Hong Kong & Macau of China.
In 1998, the company opened the first Chow Tai Fook Jewellery POS in Mainland China in Beijing.
In 2010, Chow Tai Fook Jewellery acquired Cullinan Heritage, a 507-carat diamond.
In 2011, Chow Tai Fook Jewellery Group Limited was listed on the Main Board of The Stock Exchange of Hong Kong.
In 2013, Chow Tai Fook signed a distributorship agreement with Crossworks, a Canadian diamond manufacturing company, to sell its patented “Hearts and Arrows” ideal square cut diamonds in Greater China.
In 2014, Chow Tai Fook entered into an exclusive distributorship with Aaron Shum Jewelry to launch a new Coronet-patented design diamond collection in Greater China.
In August 2014, the diamond brand Hearts On Fire was acquired.
In 2016, the T MARK diamond brand was founded.
In March 2017, the MONOLOGUE brand was launched.
In April 2017, the SOINLOVE brand was launched.
In 2020, the natural-coloured gem specialist ENZO was acquired.
With more than 27,000 employees, Chow Tai Fook Jewellery Group Limited is considered one of the largest diamond importers in Mainland China and one of the largest jewellery groups in the world. According to Forbes, it is considered one of the Largest Public Companies in the World.
*Information from Forbes.com, Wikipedia.org, and www.ctfjewellerygroup.com.
**Video published on YouTube by “Chow Tai Fook Jewellery 周大福珠寶“.