Public | |
Traded as | : 3333 |
Industry | Real estate |
Founded | 1996 |
Founder | Xu Jiayin (Hui Ka Yan) |
Headquarters | Guangzhou, Guangdong, China |
Area served
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China |
Key people
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Xu Jiayin (Chairman) |
Website | www |
The Evergrande Group or the Evergrande Real Estate Group (previously Hengda Group) is China's second-largest property developer by sales. It is based in southern China's Guangdong Province, and sells apartments mostly to upper and middle-income dwellers.
The company is incorporated in the Cayman Islands.
Formerly called the Hengda Group, Evergrande was founded by Xu Jiayin in the southern Chinese city of Guangzhou in 1996.
In October 2009 the company raised $722 million in an initial public offering on the .
The group bought football club Guangzhou Evergrande F.C. in 2010 and invested heavily, and under Marcello Lippi they won the 2013 AFC Champions League. The group has a mineral water brand Evergrande Spring (恒大冰泉) and a football tutoring school.
In recent years Chinese property developers like Evergrande and Dalian Wanda have made forays into "alternative, income-generating businesses away from the property market". For example, Evergrande has expanded into solar panels, pig farming, agribusiness, and baby formula.
The firm now has projects in over 170 cities in the country. It is one of the ten largest real estate developers in Mainland China, and one of the five largest real estate developers in Guangdong Province, the other four being Country Garden, Guangzhou R&F Properties, Hopson Development, and Agile Property.