Name
Wei Ying-Chiao
Wei Ying-Chiao
Taipei, Taiwan
Taiwan
food, beverages, Self Made
$1,500,000,000
1605
#1605 Billionaires 2019
Wei Ying-Chiao and his three brothers, Ing-Chou, Yin-Chun and Yin-Heng, started Tingyi in 1991.Tingyi is now a big producer of ready-to-drink tea and bottled water in China, and it supplies half of the country's instant-noodle market.The family also controls the Dicos fried-chicken chain.The family's private company, Ting Hsin, sold its 37.17% stake in Taipei 101, Taiwan's tallest building, to Itochu for $665 million in July 2018.
Wei graduated from a local high school in Changhua County, central Taiwan, but didn't go to college.
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