The Group was founded in 1963 with The Great Eagle Company, Limited as its holding company, shares of which were listed on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange in 1972. The Group underwent a re-organisation in 1990 and Great Eagle Holdings Limited, a Bermuda registered company, became the listed company of the Group in place of The Great Eagle Company, Limited.
The Group’s extensive international hotel portfolio currently comprises twenty-two luxury properties with more than 9,000 rooms, including nineteen luxury hotels branded under The Langham, Langham Place and Cordis brands in Hong Kong, London, New York, Chicago, Boston, Los Angeles, Sydney, Melbourne, Auckland, Shanghai, Beijing, Shenzhen, Guangzhou, Haining, Haikou, Ningbo and Xiamen; two Eaton hotels in Washington D.C. and Hong Kong; and the Chelsea hotel in Toronto.