Page 9 - Sphere No.16 (Apr 2006)

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CHARITYVISIT

Television stars Kwok Chun-on and Tong

Ying-ying joined Hongkong Electric Volunteers in a visit to an

elderly centre in Tai Po in support of an event organised by

the Oriental Daily Charity Fund. The 200 residents welcomed

the visitors with songs before being presented with souvenirs

and gift packages which included food and warm clothes.

Makeover on the Move

Superdrug hit the

road with a novel marketing drive – a classic

double-decker bus refurbished to offer a

mobile pampering parlour. Staffed by beauty

specialists, make-up artists and manicurists,

the bus offered fashion followers a glass of

chilled champagne and a makeover on the

move during the Everyone’s London Festival

and London Fashion Week.

Miss England, Hammassa Kohistani (far

right) was the face of Superdrug’s one-stop

fashion shop.

Sparks Fly for CKI

Cheung Kong Infrastructure Holdings Limited

(CKI) sold a 49% interest in Powercor, Citipower and

ETSA Utilities to

a new Australian

infrastructure invest-

ment vehicle, Spark

Infrastructure, which

was listed on the

Australian Stock

Exchange. CKI

retains a 9.9% stake

in Spark Infrastruc-

ture and acts as a

Manager of the

Fund. CKI also received a substantial income of HKD3.7

billion from the transaction.

Separately, CKI purchased 22.07% of Powercor, Citipower

and ETSA Utilities from Hongkong Electric. As a result,

CKI, along with Hongkong Electric, retains a direct 51%

shareholding in each of the three assets.

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A U S T R A L I A

SPHERE

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Partner

Results

Partner

Communications

Company Limited

, a

leading Israeli mobile com-

munications operator and

a subsidiary of Hutchison

Telecommunications

International Limited,

reported net income of

USD77 million (HKD600

million) for the year ended

31 December, 2005.

H O N G K O N G

GOLDEN

SUNBLOCK

All girl band

Sunblock has been

awarded Gold Mobiles

for selling more than

10,000 downloads with

3 Sweden.

The band

received their awards at

the annual Swedish record

industry Grammy gala

from Stefan Blom, Head of Products & Services, Hi3G Scandinavia, and Pandelis Eliopoulos,

Scandinavian Product Manager, Hi3G Scandinavia.

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