This Hong Kong luxury brand has become a global phenomenon
Tai Ping Carpets has been supplying luxury floor covering to a global clientele for nearly 60 years
Tom Hanks and Brad Pitt have walked on them, Britain’s royal family have too, as have countless visitors to hotels and casinos in Hong Kong and elsewhere.
Tai Ping Carpets is one of the few Hong Kong home-grown luxury brands that have entered the world of palaces, luxury hotels, private jets and the homes of movie stars.
Set up in 1957 by seven businessmen led by Lawrence Kadoorie of the famous Hong Kong business dynasty, the company initially aimed to provide jobs for skilled traditional carpet workers who came as refugees from the mainland.
The Kadoorie family still holds a majority stake, while the company listed on the Hong Kong stock exchange in 1973.
The company’s logo is a tent, which refers to an incident in the late 1950s when it received an order from Grauman’s Chinese Theatre in Hollywood for what was the largest carpet it had ever made.
It had to put up a tent to house the manufacturing process, and managed to deliver the carpet in time and undamaged despite a typhoon.
