Welcome To The Tribe
Prestige Singapore|March 2018

To honour outstanding business leaders from the Teochew community, the Teochew Entrepreneur Award expands beyond Singapore and looks to engage and connect the diaspora in Southeast Asia.

Zara Zhuang
Welcome To The Tribe

CHAIRMAN OF CK Hutchison Holdings Li Ka-shing. BreadTalk founder George Quek. Chang owner Charoen Sirivadhanabhakdi. Besides being renowned tycoons, they all proudly bear Teochew origins. The Chaoshan region of eastern Guangdong province in China is known for shrewd, enterprising emigrants throughout the 19th and 20th centuries, with the most prominent having gone on to dominate trade and politics in their adopted countries, where the ethnic group’s cultural heritage, from opera to orh nee, have also become fixtures.

Business is a particularly vital theme in the Teochew legend. To celebrate the Teochew spirit of entrepreneurship, the Teochew Poit Ip Huay Kuan launched the Teochew Entrepreneur Award (TEA) in 2016 to honour successful enterprises run by those of Teochew descent (at least patrilineally). The first business award in Singapore conferred by a dialect group, the TEA was bestowed on 28 entrepreneurs from across manufacturing, trading, healthcare and other industries, which were categorised according to their company’s turnover. Winners from 2016 included Richard Goh of air-conditioner distributor Mega-Tech Industries, Patrick Koh of construction and interior design firm QXY Resources, and Mark Tan, a fourth-gen feng shui master and CEO of Way Fengshui Group.

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