Wing On

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Wing On (Chinese: 永安) is a department store in Hong Kong. It was founded in 1907, and it is the second Chinese-owned department store in Hong Kong. It has five outlets providing 360,000 square feet (33,400 square metre) of shopping space.

Its founders are brothers Kwok Lok (郭樂) and Kwok Chuen (郭泉), who first started the Wing On fruit store in Australia in 1897. Kwok Cheun then returned to Hong Kong to start the Wing On Company after earning enough money.

The branch at the Wing On Centre was prominently featured in the climatic sequence to the 1985 Jackie Chan film Police Story.

Wing On also has a branch in Shanghai. The Shanghai branch was opened in 1918 on Nanking Road (today's Nanjing Dong Lu), opposite from the (then) Sincere department store. An extension was built next to it in the 1930's. It was nationalized after communist revolution in China. The shop was returned to the Wing On company in 2004 and is now operated under the Wing On name (Chinese: 永安).