WH Group Limited has applied to the Hong Kong stock exchange for an initial public offering (IPO) , said two people with knowledge of the matter. WH Group plans to seek as much as $6 billion from the offering in the first half, the people said on January 23, 2013 asking not to be identified as the information is private. BOC International Holdings Ltd., Citic Securities Co., Goldman Sachs Group Inc., Morgan Stanley, Standard Chartered Plc and UBS AG are working on WH Group's share sale as joint sponsors, the people said.

A Hong Kong-based external spokeswoman for the company declined to comment on the IPO plan to Bloomberg.