brand name for 6 million CAD from ESL's receivers and eventually decided to sell all Ports retail operations in the US and the UK. Together with his brother, Chan brought the Ports brand as Ports 1961 to the Chinese market and opened the company's first mono-brand store in China in 1993. In 1994, Chan created Ports Design Ltd. with his wife Fiona Cibani in Xiamen and listed the company at the Hong Kong Stock Exchange (0589.HK) in 2003. Fiona Cibani had joined Ports' design department in 1989 and later married Alfred Chan, while her sister Tia joined Ports in 1990; both are of Italian-Libyan parentage and Canadian citizenship. Tabi International was liquidated in 2011, and the remaining 76 Tabi stores in Canada were closed. Xiamen-produced Ports was and is perceived by Chinese consumers as an attractive Western brand while retailing below European and American designer goods, a fact that the company, also by hiring advertising models such as Claudia Schiffer and Kate Moss, has used to its advantage. In 2015, Ports Design Ltd. was renamed Portico International Holdings Ltd., based in Hong Kong and incorporated in Bermuda. The company traded on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange from 2003 to 2018 (code: 0589.HK). In May 2018, the company was acquired by its shareholder, Bluestone Global Holdings Ltd. — whose parent company in turn is Ports International Enterprises Ltd. in Hong Kong which belongs to Alfred Chan's and Edward Tan's PCD Group — and thus eventually delisted from the stock exchange. PCD Group operates more than 300 retail stores; most of them in over 50 cities in China. Other locations include Paris, Hong Kong and Macau. Among them are flagship stores for the various Ports fashion brands, see below. The vast majority of the group's subsidiaries incorporated in mainland China are wholly foreign owned enterprises. Fashion lines Ports International (marketed as Ports) — womenswear, accessory and menswear lines for the Chinese and Asian market; stores in China Ports 1961 — womenswear runway collection for worldwide distribution; menswear line from 2011 to 2017; Paris flagship store Ports Pure — colorful fashion line for younger women in China since 2015; stores in China Ports V — marketed since 2018 as a progressive unisex line internationally and as a fashion line for younger men in China; flagship store in Shanghai Ports 1961 In 2004, Chan re-launched the Ports brand in North America as New York