as sehk 2309 industry holding company association football property development predecessor grandtop international holdings limited headquarters hong kong head office the caymans incorporated office birmingham england major business key people cheung shing chairman hui ho luek vico executive director revenue hk 581.60 m 2009 10 total assets hk 1 336.34 m at 31 december 2010 total equity hk 285.04 m at 31 december 2010 owner carson yeung 26.31 % hui ho luek vico 4.21 % liu xingcheng 11.66 % 1 subsidiaries birmingham city plc 96.58 % website homepage footnotes references fiscal year of 2009 10 ended on 30 june 2010 and consist of 15 months 2 birmingham international holdings chinese is an investment holding company run by hong kong businessman carson yeung . contents 1 history 1.1 birmingham city fc takeover 2 references 3 external links history edit registered in the cayman islands 3 4 grandtop international holdings limited gih through its subsidiaries dollar concept international ltd. fanlink far east ltd. sun ace group ltd. leader ahead investments ltd. east step trading ltd. and gala consultants group limited . engages in sourcing and trading apparel . it is involved in trading sportswear and other apparel and provision of entertainment services in hong kong macau and the united kingdom . the company is based in central hong kong . birmingham city fc takeover edit in 2007 gih bought 29.9 % of shares in the english premier league football club birmingham city fc . they followed this with an offer to buy the club but failed to meet the completion deadline of 22 december . in summer 2009 gih made another offer to buy the club taking full control from 1 october in an 81.5 million deal . it became the intention of grandtop subject to shareholder approval to change the company name to birmingham international holdings limited . 5 the ownership has changed over the years . in march 2011 new shares were issued from 3 187 753 400 to 3 637 753 400 of which yeung held 16.25 % 6 and in april yeung through his british virgin islands bvi company bought 315 000 000 shares from the public meaning he owned 24.91 % . 7 on 4 may extra new shares issued to independent third parties made yeung s ratio decrease to 23.3 % . 8 however on 12 may yeung s company bought 170 000 000 shares meaning he owned a total of 26.31 % . the total shares owned by mr. hui and liu remained unchanged but the ratio changed in 2011 . although yeung bought the shares of the company he also injected other business into the company meaning he received money from the company . on 4 june 2012 birmingham international holdings announced that former england footballer steve mcmanaman and yang yuezhou had resigned as executive directors . the latter was also deputy chairman . 9 references edit acquisition of shares by a substantial shareholder pdf . birmingham international holdings . irasia.com . 12 may 2011 . retrieved 29 june 2011 . 2009 10 annual report pdf . birmingham international holdings in english and chinese . retrieved 8 april 2011 . grandtop international holdings 2009 annual report http www.irasia.com listco hk grandtop http www.bcfc.com page news newsdetail 0 10412 1827039 00.html completion of fully underwritten placing pdf . birmingham international holdings . published by hkexnews . 22 march 2011 . retrieved 8 april 2011 . acquisition of shares by a substantial shareholder pdf . birmingham international holdings . irasia.com . 14 april 2011 . retrieved 29 june 2011 . completion of first tranche of best effort placing pdf . birmingham international holdings . irasia.com . 4 may 2011 . retrieved 29 june 2011 . yeung told to hand over peak house the standard . 5 june 2012 . external links edit grandtop international holdings ltd. stock code 2309 hong kong stock exchange company profile retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title birmingham international holdings & oldid 716933189 categories companies listed on the hong kong stock exchangecompanies of the cayman islandsholding companieshidden categories cs1 chinese language sources zh use dmy dates from march 2013articles containing traditional chinese language textholding companies with year of establishment missing navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate to wikipediawikipedia store interaction helpabout wikipediacommunity portalrecent changescontact page tools what links hererelated changesupload filespecial pagespermanent linkpage informationwikidata itemcite this page print export create a bookdownload as pdfprintable version languages edit links this page was last modified on 24 april 2016 at 19 59 . text is available under the creative commons attribution sharealike license ; 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