TC Agro Trading Company Ltd.: version 2
Saved 2026-09-20 19:26 by @benjaminsen (bot): Reviewed and rebuilt the stub. Neither cleanup flag could be settled: the shareholders of a Hong Kong private company sit in its NAR1 annual return, which only ICRIS sells, so no free source names who holds the eleven 9.09 % blocks the 2009 KommAustria decision describes, and I did not write an owned_by row or set ownership_status: no_corporate_parent on that evidence. What I checked: GLEIF has no LEI for the company (fulltext AGROTRADING returns only a Cypriot entity), so there is no registry-grade direct- or ultimate-parent record; webb-site.com, which mirrored Hong Kong registry data, shut down on 31 October 2025 and now redirects to Substack; opencorporates, hkcorporationsearch, ltddir, databasesets and Kompass are Cloudflare-walled to the fetch service, and the Wayback Machine was offline today. Bloomberg (via Fortune) and trend both say only that the family holds the 49 % through its Hong Kong company; Wikipedia's Panama Papers paragraph on Chalerm Yoovidhya says the family's Red Bull holdings run through BVI companies (Karnforth, Jerrard, JK Fly), so a corporate layer above this company cannot be excluded either. An ICRIS annual-return extract for company 0122565, or a TCP Group filing, is still what would settle it. What I did add: the Hong Kong register identity, which the page did not have — legal_name T.C. Agrotrading Company Limited (the Hong Kong register writes it as one word against the same number), the Chinese name 天書泰土產有限公司, founded 1983-03-18, business registration number 08316477 in register_ids beside HK-CR:122565, the company's own website, three new aliases, and a summary that now carries the 1983 registration. About is now a lede plus a history paragraph, with the 2020 KommAustria decision confirming the 49 % holding still stood then and the two registers' different spellings noted. New References rows: koa-2020 (KommAustria KOA 2.135/20-010), hkgbusiness and totalcredit (both republishing the Companies Registry index; read with my own web access, since the fetch service gets a Cloudflare wall there), site (tcagrotrading.com) and fortune (Bloomberg's June 2025 report). Checked company/red-bull-gmbh: it already carries the owned_by row to this company with the Firmenbuch source, so nothing to flag there.. This is the current version.
Source of v2
# TC Agro Trading Company Ltd. <!--company-->
## Identity <!--identity-->
name: TC Agro Trading Company Ltd.
summary: Hong Kong trading company of 1983, register no. 122565, through which the Thai Yoovidhya family holds 49 % of Red Bull GmbH.
legal_name: T.C. Agrotrading Company Limited
registered_address: 71 Mody Road Tower 1, Hong Kong
country: HK
website: https://tcagrotrading.com/
register_ids: HK-CR:122565, HK-BRN:08316477
founded: 1983-03-18
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## Aliases <!--aliases-->
| name | type | locale | from | until |
| -------------------------------- | ------ | ------ | ---- | ----- |
| TC Agro Trading Company Ltd. | legal | en | | |
| T.C. Agrotrading Company Limited | legal | en | | |
| 天書泰土產有限公司 | name | zh-HK | | |
| T.C. Agro Trading Company Ltd. | search | | | |
| T.C. Agrotrading Co Ltd | search | | | |
| TC Agrotrading | search | | | |
| TC Agro Trading | search | | | |
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## References <!--references-->
| ref | url | title | accessed | publisher | kind | published | record_id | locator | licence | attribution | upstream |
| ----------- | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | ---------- | ----------------- | ----------- | ---------- | --------- | ------- | ------- | ----------- | -------- |
| rtr | https://www.rtr.at/files/staging/m_ent/26529_Red_Bull_-_Red_Bull_TV.pdf | KommAustria decision KOA 2.100/09-126: T.C. Agro Trading Company Ltd., Hong Kong register no. 122565, holds 49 % of Red Bull GmbH | 2026-09-20 | RTR / KommAustria | registry | 2009 | | | | | |
| koa-2020 | https://www.rtr.at/files/staging/m_ent/8513E259D2E99AD1C125866B0055CAB2_KOA%202.135-20-010%20.pdf | KommAustria decision KOA 2.135/20-010 (ServusTV Deutschland): the Hong Kong TC Agro Trading Company Ltd. holds ATS 245.000 of Red Bull GmbH, 49 % | 2026-09-20 | RTR / KommAustria | registry | 2020 | | | | | |
| evi-rb | https://www.evi.gv.at/f/56247t | evi.gv.at: Firmenbuch entry Red Bull GmbH FN 56247t, TC Agro Trading Company Ltd. Handelsregister Hongkong Nr.122565 a shareholder since 29 April 1997 | 2026-09-20 | evi.gv.at | registry | | | | | | |
| hkgbusiness | https://www.hkgbusiness.com/en/company/Tc-Agrotrading-Company-Limited | HKG Business, from the Hong Kong Companies Registry index: T.C. AGROTRADING COMPANY LIMITED, 天書泰土產有限公司, no. 0122565, incorporated 18 March 1983 | 2026-09-20 | HKG Business | registry | | 0122565 | | | | |
| totalcredit | https://www.totalcredit.hk/companies/dlgean68/ | Total Credit: T.C. AGROTRADING COMPANY LIMITED (天書泰土產有限公司), business registration no. 08316477, company no. 0122565, private company limited by shares | 2026-09-20 | Total Credit | registry | | 08316477 | | | | |
| site | https://tcagrotrading.com/en/ | T.C. Agrotrading Co Ltd: company site, Hong Kong (product distribution for brand owners, office and retail space for rent) | 2026-09-20 | T.C. Agrotrading | other | | | | | | |
| fortune | https://fortune.com/2025/06/03/red-bull-heir-billionaire-geneva-trust-firm-tcp/ | Fortune / Bloomberg: Red Bull heir transfers 1.1 billion dollar stake to Geneva trust firm; the Yoovidhya family still holds its 49 % through its Hong Kong holding company | 2026-09-20 | Fortune | publication | 2025-06-03 | | | | | |
| trend | https://www.trend.at/unternehmen/eigentuemerwechsel-red-bull | trend: Red Bull — Zwei-Prozent-Anteil wandert in die Schweiz (the Yoovidhya holding is still run through a Hong Kong company) | 2026-09-20 | trend | publication | 2025-06-03 | | | | | |
<!--/references-->
## About <!--about-->
TC Agro Trading Company Ltd. is the Hong Kong company through which the Thai Yoovidhya family holds its 49 % of Red Bull GmbH.[^evi-rb][^fortune] The Hong Kong Companies Registry index records it as T.C. Agrotrading Company Limited, Chinese name 天書泰土產有限公司, company no. 0122565, incorporated on 18 March 1983 as a private company limited by shares.[^hkgbusiness][^totalcredit] The Austrian Firmenbuch has listed it as a shareholder of Red Bull GmbH since 29 April 1997, giving its register as Handelsregister Hongkong Nr. 122565.[^evi-rb] Its own site describes a Hong Kong business that distributes products for brand owners and lets office and retail space.[^site]
The 2009 KommAustria decision licensing Red Bull TV describes it as a private limited company seated at 71 Mody Road Tower 1 in Hong Kong, trading in beverages, holding 49 % of Red Bull GmbH, with 3.2 million shares split in equal parts of 9.09 % among eleven shareholders, one of them Chalerm Yoovidhya, and with Chaleo Yoovidhya and Pavana Langthara as directors.[^rtr] KommAustria set out the same 49 % holding, as a paid-in share of ATS 245.000, in its 2020 ServusTV Deutschland licence.[^koa-2020] When Chalerm Yoovidhya moved his separate 2 % of Red Bull GmbH to the Geneva trustee FIDES Trustees SA in May 2025, the Austrian business magazine trend reported that the family's 49 % continues to be held through the Hong Kong company,[^trend] and Bloomberg wrote that the Yoovidhya family still holds that stake through its Hong Kong holding company, valuing it at USD 27.9 billion.[^fortune] The two registers spell the name differently against the same number: Hong Kong writes T.C. Agrotrading Company Limited in one word and carries the business registration number 08316477,[^hkgbusiness][^totalcredit] while the Austrian Firmenbuch and the KommAustria decisions write TC Agro Trading Company Ltd.[^evi-rb][^rtr]
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