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. He was the richest person in Taiwan in 2017. Tsai was born in 1957, in Datong District, Taipei, the son of Tsai A-Shi, who founded a canned fish business in 1962.
Tsai Eng-meng is the Founder and Chairman of Want Want China Holdings
- 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.
- Net worth: $6.2 billion
- 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.
