24-35  Number of Regional Headquarters in Hong Kong by Country/ Territory where the Parent Company was Located
	(unit)
Item	2007	2008	2009	2010	2011
No. of regional headquarters in Hong Kong	1246	1298	1252	1285	1340
Country/Territory of  the  parent company
United States of America	298	311	289	288	315
Japan	232	238	224	224	222
United Kingdom	124	119	115	113	117
The mainland of China	93	95	96	99	97
Germany	76	77	74	72	84
France	56	59	66	62	63
Netherlands	50	50	54	52	54
Singapore	43	46	43	41	43
Italy	27	32	40	43	43
Switzerland	47	53	46	47	39
Australia	21	19	22	24	32
Sweden	20	18	21	26	31
Taiwan, China	28	26	19	30	22
Korea	16	19	18	19	20
Canada	14	13	12	15	16
Denmark	11	15	15	16	16
Belgium	10	13	10	12	16
Note : 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 where the parent company was located.