Tsai Eng-meng (Chinese: 蔡衍明; pinyin: Cài Yǎnmíng; born 1957) is a businessman who lives in Taiwan. He is well-known for his leadership of the Want Want food company and his family's later acquisition of various news media companies in Taiwan. He also chairman of the snack food company Want Want China.[1] He was the richest person in Taiwan in 2017.[2]
Tsai was born in 1957,[3] in Datong District, Taipei, the son of Tsai A-Shi, who founded a canned fish business in 1962.[4]
Careeredit
Tsai succeeded his father as chairman of Want Want in 1987.[3]
According to Forbes, Tsai Eng-meng has a net worth of $5.9 billion, as of January 2017.[5]
Although not a politician, he remains politically active and is a strong supporter of Chinese unification.[6] In 2012 he said that "unification will happen sooner or later."[7]
Personal lifeedit
He lives in Shanghai, China.[5] His older son, Kevin Tsai runs the family's media empire of TV stations and newspapers.[4] His younger son Matthew Tsai (Tsai Wang-Chia, born 1984) is the chief operating officer of Want Want China.[3] He is a follower of Buddhism.[8]
Referencesedit
^"Kuomintang News Network". Archived from the original on 18 January 2015. Retrieved 17 January 2015.
^"Want Want's Tsai ranks as richest man in Taiwan | Economics | FOCUS TAIWAN - CNA ENGLISH NEWS". Focustaiwan.tw. Retrieved 23 January 2017.
^ abc"中国旺旺 - 中国旺旺". Want-want.com. 1 March 2015. Retrieved 23 January 2017.
^ ab"Billionaire's Media Push Tests The Toughness Of A Taiwan "Strawberry"". Forbes.com. Retrieved 23 January 2017.
^ ab"Forbes profile: Tsai Eng-Meng". Forbes. Retrieved 29 August 2020.
^Aspinwall, Nick. "Taiwan Shaken by Concerns Over Chinese Influence in Media, Press Freedom". thediplomat.com. The Diplomat. Retrieved 26 July 2019.
^Higgins, Andrew. "Tycoon prods Taiwan closer to China". The Washington Post. Retrieved 26 July 2019.
^Lee, Minerva (4 June 2017). "10 Buddhist Billionaires in Asia".
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