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Companies Registry of Hong Kong, weekly lists of new and renamed companies

Only part of Hong Kong's register, about a third of its companies: those incorporated or re-domiciled, and non-Hong Kong companies registered in Hong Kong, since 25 December 2023, and older companies that changed their name since then, from the Companies Registry's weekly lists. Companies formed earlier that have not changed their name since are not included. The lists give no status, address or company type, so every status is shown as not supplied, no company is shown as dissolved, and a company that has since been dissolved can still appear.

Source: Companies Registry, Government of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, List of Newly Incorporated / Registered / Re-domiciled Companies and Companies which have changed Names, via DATA.GOV.HK. The Government of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region owns the intellectual property rights in the data. Merged and reformatted by CorporateDB.

Licence: DATA.GOV.HK Terms and Conditions of Use, version 1.2 (26 May 2025): free download, distribution and reproduction for commercial and non-commercial purposes, with the source identified and attributed ↗ Terms of use ↗ Catalogue data.gov.hk/en-data/dataset/hk-cr-crdata-list-newly-registered-companies-2324 ↗Catalogue data.gov.hk/en-data/dataset/hk-cr-crdata-list-newly-registered-companies-2526 ↗
Changes: Selected fields are reformatted into CorporateDB's schema. The Companies Registry's weekly lists from the week of 25 December 2023, the first to number companies by their Unique Business Identifier, are merged into one record per identifier: the newest list naming a company gives its current English and Chinese names, and the names earlier lists gave it are kept as former names. A non-Hong Kong company's corporate names, listed one per row, are joined into one record. The lists publish no company type, address, officers or status, so none is shown; the legal form is the list the company appears in. Limited partnerships, which are usually named after their partners, are left out, and so are the unregistered companies, such as incorporated owners of buildings, that the lists number with a UC identifier.
Dates: The edition date is the last day of the week covered by the newest weekly list; each list covers Monday to Sunday and is published a few days later. A local company's date is its date of incorporation in lists headed "Date of Incorporation". Lists headed "Date of Incorporation / Re-domiciliation Date" do not say which it is, so that date is shown as the date the company was incorporated or re-domiciled in Hong Kong and never as its incorporation date. A non-Hong Kong company's date is the date it registered in Hong Kong. Name change dates are the register's own. The lists never report a dissolution, deregistration or striking off, so a company that has since ceased is still shown, and its status is not supplied.