Name
Chen Tei-Fu
Chen Tei-Fu
Los Angeles, California
Drop Out, Brigham Young University | Bachelor of Arts/Science, Kaohsiung Medical University
Taiwan
herbal products, Self Made
$2,100,000,000
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#1168 Billionaires 2019
#16 Taiwan's 50 Richest 2018
Chen and his wife, Oi-Lin Chen, lead Sunrider, an herbal-products supplier with more than 850 stores and an army of 100,000 sales reps worldwide.Sunrider products are distributed in 48 countries through a mix of franchises and company-owned stores.He owns Sunworld-branded hotels in Taipei and Beijing; the SLS Hotel in Beverly Hills, California; and St. Ermin's Hotel in London.Chen's vast collection of Chinese art is on display at Sunrider headquarters in Torrance, California, near Los Angeles.
In 1975 he was a starving college student in Utah, buying 20-cent hamburgers by the bunch at a weekly promotion so he could freeze them to eat later on.His given name, Tei-Fu, means "receiving a fortune." He says his 18 grandchildren are his biggest fortune.
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