Kao Ching-yuen

Kao Ching-yuen (Traditional Chinese: 高清愿; born May 24, 1929) is a Taiwanese businessman. Kao was born in a moneyless family located in Syuejia, Tainan. He is the founder and chairman of Uni-president, the largest food corporation of Taiwan, based in Tainan County, mainly actives in Taiwan, Mainland China and Southeast Asia. Kao began to serve as a workman in his teenage. He got into the Taiwan Spinning (台南紡織), a textile processing company in 1954, and became a manager later. Kao left Taiwan Spinning in 1966, and established the Uni-president in 1967.