Chow Sang Sang

Chow Sang Sang was established in Guangzhou by Mr. Chow Fang Pu in 1934. When Guangzhou fell to the Japanese during the Second Sino-Japanese War, the business was relocated to Macau in 1938.

During the 1930s and the 1940s Chow Sang Sang had branches in Guangzhou, Hong Kong, Macau and Zhanjiang, the management of which were divided among Chow Fang Pu's six sons. Pursuant to his will and testament in 1946, all his descendants are entitled to use the trademark of ??? . As a result there are now two jewellery companies in Hong Kong bearing the name of ???, but no longer related to each other: C. S. S. Jewellery , descended from his wife's three sons; and Chow Sang Sang , reestablished in Hong Kong by his concubine's three sons in 1948.In 1973 Chow Sang Sang was publicly listed on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange. In the year ending 31 December 2011 its total turnover was HK$17,158 million.During the modern era, the first Mainland shop opened in Fuzhou, Fujian in 1993. In 2006 the company established its Mainland division, Chow Sang Sang Company Limited; this after the Mainland government eased the process of a wholly foreign-owned enterprise gaining a business permit. By 2008 the company's main expansion strategy was focused on Mainland China; at that time it had a revenue of 9.88 billion Hong Kong dollars, or $1.27 billion U.S. dollars, and 190 locations in Hong Kong, Taiwan, Macau, and the Mainland, with over 40 of them being in Hong Kong.In May 2013 the antitrust bureau of the Shanghai Municipal Development and Reform Commission began an investigation of Chow Sang Sang, Chow Tai Fook, an industry association, and 11 gold retailers in China over concerns about price manipulation of gold in the City of Shanghai.