Jiangsu Sainty (company)

Jiangsu Sainty Corporation Limited is a Chinese listed company based in Nanjing, Jiangsu Province. The company exported clothes to overseas.

Jiangsu Sainty was majority owned by Jiangsu Sainty International Group. However, it was merged with fellow state-owned Jiangsu Guoxin Investment Group in 2010, becoming an intermediate holding company.

History
Jiangsu Sainty Corporation Limited was incorporated in 1993 as a "company limited by shares" (similar to public limited company), by transforming a state-owned enterprise namely 江苏省服装进出口（集团）公司 ( literally Jiangsu Province Garments Import & Export (Group) Corporation). At that time employee owned a minority stake of the new legal person. In December 1996, a new intermediate holding company, Jiangsu Sainty International Group was formed. In the next year Jiangsu Garments Import & Export Co., Ltd. was renamed to [Jiangsu] '''Sainty International Group Jiangsu Garments Imp. & Exp. Co., Ltd.'''. It became a listed company in 2000. Before the initial public offering, Jiangsu Provincial People's Government, via Sainty International Group, owned 81.81% shares and was proposed to diluted to 60.38%.

In 2010, the parent company Sainty International Group was merged with fellow state-owned holding company Jiangsu Guoxin Investment Group.

Jiangsu Sainty also acquired a significant stake of a financial leasing company 南京国际租赁 (now 江苏省国际租赁) from parent company Jiangsu Guoxin Group in 2013 (announced in 2012 ). However, in 2015 the stake was sold to a subsidiary of fellow state-owned enterprise Jiangsu Broadcasting Corporation.

Controversies
In 2013 Securities Daily criticized Jiangsu Sainty had a large sum of prepayment to a former related parties. Jiangsu Sainty clarified that the prepayment to the business partner was part of a normal operation, despite that company was owned by a former employee of Jiangsu Sainty.