The Industrial and Commercial Daily Press Limited was the editor and publisher of the three newspapers in British Hong Kong, The Kung Sheung Daily News (Chinese: 工商日報; lit.
The company also wrote and published some special report, fiction and non-fiction.
[1] The predecessor of the company was founded circa the same year with the daily newspaper in 1925.
According to the filings in the Hong Kong Companies Registry, the first available Annual Return (after World War II) in 1946, shown Sir Robert Hotung and his son Ho Shai Lai [zh] owned 500 out of 1,850 shares, Kwan Cho-yiu 140 shares, journalist Wu Dit Ng (Chinese: 胡秩五; Jyutping: wu4 dit6 ng5) 50 shares, as well as other shareholders; the nominal largest shareholder was a corporate body "Sang Kee" (Chinese: 生記; Jyutping: saang1 gei3) for 1,000 shares.
[2]: 296 The last Annual Return of the company in 1994, shown Ho Shai Lai and his wife, late Hesta Hung (d.1991) owned most of the shares, with his nephew Eric Hotung and a Liberia-incorporated as minority shareholders.