Robert Kuok, male, was born on October 6, 1923, in Johor Bahru, Malaysia Robert Kuok is Malaysia’s most outstanding entrepreneur: Leadership Assignment, HU, Singapore

Robert Kuok, male, was born on October 6, 1923, in Johor Bahru, Malaysia. Robert Kuok is Malaysia’s most outstanding entrepreneur. It enjoys the title of “Hotel King” and “Asian Sugar King”. Robert Kuok’s name is not only a household name but has become synonymous with wealth and success.

The Kwok Group (Kerry Group) has penetrated all over the world: under his leadership, it has developed into a huge business kingdom. In addition to having many companies in his country, Singapore, Thailand, China, Indonesia, Fiji, and Australia are his main business areas.

The business operations are also extremely diversified, from sugarcane planting, manufacturing of sugar, flour, feed, grease, mining, to real estate, finance, hotels, industry, plantation, commerce, and shipping.

Robert Kuok controls 80% of the raw sugar market in Malaysia and 20% of the world sugar market. In the 1970s, Kuok started to enter the hotel industry and established the Shangri-La Hotel Group.

Shangri-La Hotel Group has become one of the best hotel management groups in the world and the largest hotel group in Asia, spreading all over the world.

Robert Kuok was classified by Forbes as the richest man in Malaysia and ranked fourth on the Chinese Rich List.

The largest part of his assets is in Hong Kong, including a large number of Hong Kong luxury houses, shopping malls, hotels, offices, South China Morning Post Group, Shangri-La Hotel Group, and so on.

He lives in Hong Kong for a long time and is actively exploring the corporate territory in mainland China.