24-35 Number of Regional Headquarters in Hong Kong by Country/Territory of the Parent Company
	(unit)
Item	2006	2007	2008	2009	2010
Number of regional headquarters	1228	1246	1298	1252	1285
in Hong Kong①
Country/Territory of the parent company②
United States of America	295	298	311	289	288
Japan	212	232	238	224	224
United Kingdom	114	124	119	115	113
The mainland of China	112	93	95	96	99
Germany	76	76	77	74	72
France	55	56	59	66	62
Netherlands	48	50	50	54	52
Switzerland	42	47	53	46	47
Italy	23	27	32	40	43
Singapore	44	43	46	43	41
Taiwan, China	28	28	26	19	30
Sweden	19	20	18	21	26
Australia	21	21	19	22	24
Korea	16	16	19	18	19
Denmark	14	11	15	15	16
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 companies.
①The definition of regional headquarters was revised in 2006.  Hence, figures from 2006 onwards may not be strictly comparable with those for earlier years.
②Figures refer to the countries/territories where parent companies were located.