Rank #1700
Chen Tei-fu
Net worth $2.5B
Herbal products · Taiwan
- Born
- Apr 19, 1948
- Age
- 78
- Source
- Herbal products
- Residence
- Los Angeles, California
- Citizenship
- Taiwan
- Marital status
- Married
- Children
- 5
- Education
- Drop Out, Brigham Young University; Bachelor of Arts/Science, Kaohsiung Medical University
Net worth over time
Biography
- Chen Tei-Fu and his wife, Oi-Lin Chen, cofounded herbal-products maker Sunrider, which is now led by their five children.
- Sunrider products are distributed in nearly 50 countries through a mix of franchises and company-owned stores.
- He owns Sunworld-branded hotels in 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 19 grandchildren are his biggest fortune.