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to the ticker reference SFG. From 2016 to 2019, the group's share lost 94% of its value, and its revenue shrunk 23% year-on-year. In
September 2019, the Santa Fe Group was sold to Proventus Capital Partners for 1 million euros after it failed to regain a financial health. Technically, the ownership
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He had purchased the
Oriental Hotel in Bangkok with Captain Peter Andersen in 1884. They would go out renovating the premise after borrowing 40,000 Danish Crowns from the Borneo Company. Being one of the only hotels in Bangkok at the time, the hotel attracted sailors and officers from foreign boats
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Andersen managed to secure funding from Isak
Glueckstadt. Isak was the financier and manager director of the largest bank in Northern Europe, Landmandsbanken. The company grew from teak tree concessions it had bought in Siam and operated direct lines from Bangkok to Europe. Service which would
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of the Santa Fe Group was transferred to Santa Fe
Intressenter, a company controlled by Lazarus Equity Partners and backed by Proventus. Its Australian subsidiary had already been sold in a management buyout in December 2018. In November 2019, the Santa Fe Group became EAC Invest.
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It owned 5 subsidiary companies: Russian East
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After the war with air travelling becoming increasing popular, the company sold numerous ships in the 1950s and 1960s before discontinuing its entire passenger fleet's operations in 1969. Their last ship,
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began operation in 1912 after maiden voyage with the Danish crown prince and princess aboard followed by a visit to London where the ship created great interest with visits by
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and became the second large motorship in commercial service with any company. By 1935 the company was operating twenty-seven motorships, including a new
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in
Bangkok, which became the first foreign hotel in Thailand; it also was the main supplier to the Siamese Marine Forces which Andreas headed.
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Copenhagen in 20 March 1897 on the basis of Hans' previous company Andersen & Co. Anderson & Co was established in 1884 with Danish
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The company was a pioneer in development of large, commercial motorships with
President Andersen placing an order with
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During the Second World War, several of its ships were sunk, mostly torpedoed in the
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and the far east were handled by
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in the Caribbean from the Danish state, but eventually sold it to the United States in 1944, during the
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were among the ports of call added for ships on the north Pacific route in 1940. Connections between
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In April 2015, the company rebranded itself as the Santa Fe Group, and changed its listing on the
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operations beginning in 1915 under the subsidiary D/S A/S Orient of Copenhagen.
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