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MASTER ENTREPRENEUR CATEGORY

HENRY WANG
CHAIRMAN


La Kaffa International
www.en.lakaffagroup.com


Information about the Entrepreneur
Henry Wang is a successful business owner who holds the CEO position of several companies and subsidiaries. He is the founder and CEO of La Kaffa Group International (La Kaffa), a publiclylisted and highly-successful food and beverage company based in Taiwan. He is also the CEO of the company’s subsidiaries including Kingza International Co.Ltd., Ten En Tapioca Food., Chatime HK Limited, and Infinite Plus Pty. Ltd. La Kaffa International has been a listed company on the Taipei Exchange since 2015.

Born in Taiwan, Henry had humble beginnings in Hsinchu with an ambition to be a successful entrepreneur. He graduated from Pingtung University of Science and Technology with a Bachelor’s Degree in agribusiness management. His early career included being the Project Manager at Marketech International Corporation. With hard work and dedication to his craft, Henry was never satisfied with being just an employee. Therefore, he explored various business opportunities. The tea business eventually caught his interest, and the rest is history.

Other Interesting Facts about Entrepreneur
Henry is a natural-born leader and a visionary. He sees beyond the horizon. With his courage and passion for business, he ventured to set up his own company. The birth pains of a start-up business never made Henry lose his determination to pursue success. Moving from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm became his mantra.

However, Henry always makes a family a priority despite the demands of the job. He loves spending the weekend with his children and wife playing basketball and other sporty activities such as running.
Company Achievements & Role as Entrepreneur
La Kaffa currently employs over a thousand employees, providing jobs and livelihood to countless families. Its Chatime brand has more than 1,300 stores across 58 countries/ regions around 6 continents worldwide, serving joy in every Chatime cup. Even with the pandemic, Henry’s business never stopped expanding. New markets were recently added to its portfolios such as Chatime in Sweden, the Netherlands, Palau, Germany, Ireland, and Timor Leste, and more markets are in the pipeline for the balance of 2022. With Henry’s leadership, Chatime is now one of the pioneer brands in the world, covering key markets such as Indonesia, the Philippines, Malaysia, Australia, Canada, the U.K., Japan, and the U.S.A. The business continues to grow despite the setbacks brought about by external factors such as the pandemic, macroeconomics, and increasing competition. The volume of sales was on an upward trajectory before the COVID-19 pandemic. In 2019, La Kaffa’s stock value reached more than +300%. With all his success, Henry always looks back to where he came from and has devoted his resources to social welfare over the years, such as a disaster relief fund for the victims of Typhoon Haiyan in the Philippines, public welfare in Taiwan, environmental protection, a charity for kids, etc.

Vision, Mission, & Future Plans
The primary mission of the company is to pursue excellence in products and services, employing the strictest control of quality and bringing enjoyable satisfaction to customers. Influenced by his IT work experience, Henry applied the managerial approach of putting a “systemic approach” and “standardization” into tea brewing and product preparation processes. With this, providing consistent product quality to all Chatime customers is of utmost importance.

The advantages offered by La Kaffa Group include providing excellent product innovation and strict Safety/ Quality/ Service control; adopting universal franchise guidelines by strategic alliances; advocating and acting upon the principles of business ethics, strong corporate governance, operational transparency, regulatory compliance, and food certification; offering a comprehensive training program to partners and franchisees. Henry has turned Chatime into a world-renowned bubble tea brand serving millions of customers around the world. Chatime has pivoted itself into becoming an agile brand by quickly adapting to change with its recent market launch of the Chatime FMCG product line in Australia.

MASTER ENTREPRENEUR CATEGORY

HENRY WANG
CHAIRMAN

Information about the Entrepreneur
Henry Wang is a successful business owner who holds the CEO position of several companies and subsidiaries. He is the founder and CEO of La Kaffa Group International (La Kaffa), a publiclylisted and highly-successful food and beverage company based in Taiwan. He is also the CEO of the company’s subsidiaries including Kingza International Co.Ltd., Ten En Tapioca Food., Chatime HK Limited, and Infinite Plus Pty. Ltd. La Kaffa International has been a listed company on the Taipei Exchange since 2015.

Born in Taiwan, Henry had humble beginnings in Hsinchu with an ambition to be a successful entrepreneur. He graduated from Pingtung University of Science and Technology with a Bachelor’s Degree in agribusiness management. His early career included being the Project Manager at Marketech International Corporation. With hard work and dedication to his craft, Henry was never satisfied with being just an employee. Therefore, he explored various business opportunities. The tea business eventually caught his interest, and the rest is history.

Other Interesting Facts about Entrepreneur
Henry is a natural-born leader and a visionary. He sees beyond the horizon. With his courage and passion for business, he ventured to set up his own company. The birth pains of a start-up business never made Henry lose his determination to pursue success. Moving from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm became his mantra.

However, Henry always makes a family a priority despite the demands of the job. He loves spending the weekend with his children and wife playing basketball and other sporty activities such as running.

La Kaffa International
www.en.lakaffagroup.com


Company Achievements & Role as Entrepreneur
La Kaffa currently employs over a thousand employees, providing jobs and livelihood to countless families. Its Chatime brand has more than 1,300 stores across 58 countries/ regions around 6 continents worldwide, serving joy in every Chatime cup. Even with the pandemic, Henry’s business never stopped expanding. New markets were recently added to its portfolios such as Chatime in Sweden, the Netherlands, Palau, Germany, Ireland, and Timor Leste, and more markets are in the pipeline for the balance of 2022. With Henry’s leadership, Chatime is now one of the pioneer brands in the world, covering key markets such as Indonesia, the Philippines, Malaysia, Australia, Canada, the U.K., Japan, and the U.S.A. The business continues to grow despite the setbacks brought about by external factors such as the pandemic, macroeconomics, and increasing competition. The volume of sales was on an upward trajectory before the COVID-19 pandemic. In 2019, La Kaffa’s stock value reached more than +300%. With all his success, Henry always looks back to where he came from and has devoted his resources to social welfare over the years, such as a disaster relief fund for the victims of Typhoon Haiyan in the Philippines, public welfare in Taiwan, environmental protection, a charity for kids, etc.

Vision, Mission, & Future Plans
The primary mission of the company is to pursue excellence in products and services, employing the strictest control of quality and bringing enjoyable satisfaction to customers. Influenced by his IT work experience, Henry applied the managerial approach of putting a “systemic approach” and “standardization” into tea brewing and product preparation processes. With this, providing consistent product quality to all Chatime customers is of utmost importance.

The advantages offered by La Kaffa Group include providing excellent product innovation and strict Safety/ Quality/ Service control; adopting universal franchise guidelines by strategic alliances; advocating and acting upon the principles of business ethics, strong corporate governance, operational transparency, regulatory compliance, and food certification; offering a comprehensive training program to partners and franchisees. Henry has turned Chatime into a world-renowned bubble tea brand serving millions of customers around the world. Chatime has pivoted itself into becoming an agile brand by quickly adapting to change with its recent market launch of the Chatime FMCG product line in Australia.