The Erawan Group, best known for the landmark Grand Hyatt Erawan hotel, located adjacent to the Erawan shrine in central Bangkok, is expanding beyond its luxury roots by doubling down on budget accommodation.
Battered by pork smuggling and high feed costs, Winai Teawsomboonkij’s Thaifoods Group reported a net loss of 813 million baht ($22 million) last year, its first since 2015, as swine prices fell by nearly a third.
Jareeporn Jarukornsakul, cofounder of logistics and warehousing firm WHA Corporation, is betting $1 billion on neighboring Vietnam, with plans to build three new next-generation industrial zones for high-tech companies over the next five…
Retail magnate Pradit Phataraprasit, a former deputy finance minister of Thailand, draws the bulk of his family’s wealth of $1.22 billion from the Mall Group, operator of Bangkok’s shopping hotspots such as Siam Paragon, Emporium and the…
Since entering Europe more than a decade ago, retailing giant Central Group, controlled by the Chirathivat family, has built a sizable presence with a string of iconic acquisitions.
She put Hollywood on hold a decade ago to raise a family with Ryan Gosling. Now the 50-year-old actress is reemerging as a cleaning-supplies entrepreneur, and dishes on why doing dishes is her happy place.
Uni-President Enterprises’ supersized plans for growth saw the food and beverage group in January bid for shares of Woongjin Foods it didn’t already own to add the South Korean beverage maker to its expanding portfolio.
AI-fueled growth drove Quanta Computer’s shares up to record highs in the past year, bumping chairman Barry Lam to the top of the list for the first time and securing a debut spot for vice chairman and president C.C. Leung.
After a modest 1.3% expansion in 2023, Taiwan’s economy, propelled by an exports surge, revved up in the first quarter of 2024, logging a 6.5% rise, the fastest pace in almost three years.
The company’s chairman and CEO, Yozo Shimano, one of five newcomers to the ranks of Japan’s richest, is the third-generation member of a family-run business that was set up by his grandfather, Shozaburo, in Sakai city near Osaka in 1921.
After shutting down a quarter of its 126 Ito-Yokado supermarkets in the past two years, the company completed the sale of its struggling department store unit Sogo & Seibu Co. in September to U.S.-based Fortress Investment Group.
Amid Japan’s push to reboot its global standing in semiconductors, Tokyo-based Disco, which makes equipment to slice, grind and polish chips, has become a red-hot stock.
Overseas investors, led by Warren Buffett, whose Berkshire Hathaway has poured billions of dollars into Japan, helped propel the Nikkei 225 benchmark stock index to a 35-year high.
Fawn Weaver founded Uncle Nearest to honor the formerly enslaved master distiller who taught Jack Daniel the secret to making great whiskey. Seven years later, she owns the most successful Black-owned liquor empire, worth $1.1 billion,…
Keeping up with the residents of California’s Coachella Valley, home to an array of notables including Adele and Justin Bieber, Tim Cook and Phil Knight—as well as a cluster of Kardashians.
Chrissy Taylor’s grandfather founded the car rental giant. Her father built it into an industry leader. Now she’s driving the $35 billion firm into a future of mobility.