From a small trading store in Petaling Street, Kuala Lumpur in the 1960s, the Chew brothers have built up Yoong Onn Corporation Berhad to be a leading integrated manufacturer of high quality bed and bath linen in Malaysia. They have more than 10 successful homegrown brands including Jean Perry, Ann Taylor, Niki Cains, Louis Casa, Genova, etc. They are marketed via their own 25 Home Harmony's boutique retail outlets, 4 Niki Cains concept stores, 1 Home's outlet and 260 consignment counters with department stores, supermarkets, and specialty stores in...

Chin Hin group began as a hardware shop in 1974 in Alor Setar, Kedah. It was a small family business which
Datuk Seri Chiau Beng Teik, 61, eventually took over and diversified into the trading of building materials and cement transportation in 1994. His son, Chiau Haw Choon, 39, joined the family business after graduating with a Bachelor’s Degree in Finance and Marketing from Deakin University, Australia in 2009.Haw Choon had bigger dreams and his father spurred him on seeing that he had the advantage of an overseas education....

Engineer entrepreneur, Dato' Lim Soon Huat, major shareholder of Asia File Corporation Bhd, ventured into the filing products business in 1986 and created a global Malaysian brand ABBA files. It has a strong presence in the UK market and Europe. Headquartered in Penang, Asia File has 7 production and warehousing sites in Malaysia, 2 manufacturing plants and one paper mill in the U.K and 2 manufacturing facilities in Germany. Asia File was listed on the Second Board in 1996 and transferred to the Main Board of Bursa Malaysia in year 2000. For FYE the...

DATO' S Y CHEAH fell in love with Baskin-Robbins ice cream when he first tasted it on his honeymoon in the USA. He secured the Master Franchise for Baskin-Robbins for Malaysia and Singapore more than 30 years ago and grew it to more than 150 outlets across the territories. Baskin-Robbins creates and markets innovative premium ice creams and frozen specialty desserts. It is present in more than 50 countries and has about 6,700 retail shops. 

Today, Dato' Cheah's son, Cheah Jia Ming, heads the Singapore/Malaysia...

JOHN CHIA SIN TET is a Barrister at Law and a Member of the LIncoln;s Inn, UK. He and his brother Francis Chia ventured into the semiconductor business in 1992 with the setting up of their Simpang Pulai factory in Ipoh.  Francis is a U.K qualified Chartered Accountant and manages Group Finance of Unisem (M) Berhad. UNISEM was listed in 1998.

Today, UNISEM is a global provider of semiconductor assembly and test services for many of the world’s top electronics companies.The Group's customer base comprises primarily fabless...

Perak boy of Hakka origin from the mining town of Pusing near Batu Gajah, Tan Sri Jeffrey Cheah was acquainted with the struggles of mining workers under British owned tin mining companies. Once all the tin has been exhausted, what is left behind is wasteland and out of job mining workers. Jeffrey Cheah fared better than his friends who lacked education because of family poverty.
He remembers well those hard years of childhood that are indelibly inked in his mind.

After his graduation from Victoria University,...

T7 Global Berhad is listed on the Main Market of Bursa Malaysia Securities since 2005. The company has been in the oil and gas (O&G) business since 1990 and is well known as an integrated solutions provider. 

 Tan Sri Datuk Seri Tan Kean Soon, J.P. (“Tan Sri Tan”) has more than 30 years of experience in leading various oil and gas upstream and downstream companies. He founded CP Energy & Services Sdn Bhd in 1992 and rapidly expanded its presence in the ASEAN region. Its clients include Petronas Carigali, Repsol Oil & Gas Malaysia and...

He was a young lawyer (28) when he first crossed the Causeway to expand the Hong Leong group in Malaysia. It was in the mid-1960s. None of the wealthy Kwek / Quek clan in Singapore who were traders and distributors, plantation owners, manufacturers  and property developers and managing the powerful Hong Leong Finance Limited wanted to take up the challenge. Quek Leng Chan did. He is the eldest son of Kwek Hong Lye, third of the 4 Kwek brothers who built the powerful Hong Leong Group, the others are  Kwek Hong Png (Chairman/Founder)  Kwek Hong Khai...