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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 Asiatic based in Saint Petersburg, Siam Steam Navigation based in Bangkok, Est Asiatique Francais based in Paris, Swedish East Asiatic based in Gothenburg, and D/S A/S Orient based in Copenhagen.
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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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in 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 Atlantic by German U-boats.
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and the far east were handled by Johnson Walton Steamships Ltd of Vancouver, when they were acquired in 1949.
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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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eventually include both passenger and freight lines between the Danish capital,
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began sailing to North America in 1916, continuing until 1917. Another, the
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government took it over in 1941. For trade in the South of Africa, the
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Share of the Det Østasiatiske Kompagni, issued December 1918
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In these middle years, business grew considerably. The
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East Asiatic Building
Danish Asiatic Company

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Aktieselskab
Investment
Hans Niels Andersen
Copenhagen
Denmark
Subsidiaries
Danish
Copenhagen
Hans Niels Andersen

Danish
Hans Niels Andersen
Andreas du Plessis de Richelieu
Oriental Hotel

Bangkok
far east
Baltic
Black Seas
Russian American Line
St. Petersburg
Paris
West Indian Company
Siam Steam Navigation Company
Thai
Swedish East India Company

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