Tsai Eng-Meng
Tsai Eng-meng is a Taiwanese businessman, chairman of the snack food company Want Want China. He is currently the richest person in Taiwan.
- Tsai chairs Want Want China, one of the world’s largest suppliers of Chinese-style snacks and drinks.
- He also invests in hotels, financial services and media, including China Times newspaper and China Television Co.
- At age 19 Tsai took over his father’s food business and promptly came up with an idea for a new product: crackers made from rice flour.
- Sons Kevin and Wang-Chia, along with nephew Cheng Wen-Hsien, are members of Want Want’s board of directors.
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