Portrait of Tsai Chi-jui

Rank #2772

Tsai Chi-jui

Net worth $1.0B

shoes · Taiwan

Born
Jan 16, 1940
Age
86
Source
shoes
Residence
Taichung
Citizenship
Taiwan
Marital status
Married
Children
3
Education
National Taichung University of Education

Net worth over time

Biography

  • His Pou Chen Group, which he founded with his brothers in 1969, claims to be the largest branded athletic-and-casual-footwear-maker in the world.
  • The company makes more than 200 million pairs of shoes a year for such customers as Nike, Adidas, Asics and New Balance.
  • Tsai's daughter Pei-Chun has been CEO since 2012.
  • The humble and intensely private son of Taiwanese weavers started as a textile worker and a primary school fine-arts teacher.
  • Tsai and his three brothers began by making rubber shoes.

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