23-35 Number of Regional Headquarters in Hong Kong by Country/Territory of the Parent Company
	(unit)
Item	2005	2006	2007	2008	2009
Number of regional headquarters	1167	1228	1246	1298	1252
in Hong Kong①
Country/Territory of the parent company
United States of America	262	295	298	311	289
Japan	204	212	232	238	224
United Kingdom	115	114	124	119	115
The mainland of China	107	112	93	95	96
Germany	75	76	76	77	74
France	49	55	56	59	66
Netherlands	54	48	50	50	54
Switzerland	38	42	47	53	46
Singapore	45	44	43	46	43
Italy	20	23	27	32	40
Australia	18	21	21	19	22
Sweden	18	19	20	18	21
Taiwan, China	33	28	28	26	19
Korea	17	16	16	19	18
Denmark	12	14	11	15	15
Notes : Figures refer to the first working day of June of the year. A regional headquarters is an office that has managerial control over offices in the
region (i.e. Hong Kong plus one or more other places) on behalf of its parent company located outside Hong Kong.  In the case of  a
joint-ventured regional headquarters in Hong Kong, there may be more than one country/territory of its parent company/companies.
①Definition of regional headquarters has been revised from 2006 onwards.  Figures for regional headquarters for 2006 and onwards
presented above may not be strictly comparable with those before 2006.