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Thapana Sirivadhanabhakdi
Thapana Sirivadhanabhakdi ( th, ฐาปน สิริวัฒนภักดี; born 1975) is a Thai businessman and the CEO and president of ThaiBev since 2008. Early life He is the third of five children of the Thai Chinese billionaire Charoen Sirivadhanabhakdi (Su Xuming), the founder and chairman of ThaiBev. His Chinese family name is Su (), and "Sirivadhanabhakdi" is the Thai surname granted by King Bhumibol of Thailand to his father in 1988. Thapana earned a bachelor's degree in finance and a master's degree in financial economics, both from Boston University. Career In January 2008, Thapana was appointed as the CEO and president of ThaiBev, having served five years as a director and executive vice president of the company. Thapana has management roles or directorships in Berli Jucker, Beer Thai, Red Bull Distillery Group, Dhospaak, Oishi Group, Oishi Group Public Co Ltd, Univentures PLC, Siam Food Products PLC, and the Southeast Group of Companies. Personal life ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bangkok
Bangkok, officially known in Thai language, Thai as Krung Thep Maha Nakhon and colloquially as Krung Thep, is the capital and most populous city of Thailand. The city occupies in the Chao Phraya River delta in central Thailand and has an estimated population of 10.539 million as of 2020, 15.3 percent of the country's population. Over 14 million people (22.2 percent) lived within the surrounding Bangkok Metropolitan Region at the 2010 census, making Bangkok an extreme primate city, dwarfing Thailand's other urban centres in both size and importance to the national economy. Bangkok traces its roots to a small trading post during the Ayutthaya Kingdom in the 15th century, which eventually grew and became the site of two capital cities, Thonburi Kingdom, Thonburi in 1768 and Rattanakosin Kingdom (1782–1932), Rattanakosin in 1782. Bangkok was at the heart of the modernization of Siam, later renamed Thailand, during the late-19th century, as the country faced pressures from the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Boston University
Boston University (BU) is a private research university in Boston, Massachusetts. The university is nonsectarian, but has a historical affiliation with the United Methodist Church. It was founded in 1839 by Methodists with its original campus in Newbury, Vermont, before moving to Boston in 1867. The university now has more than 4,000 faculty members and nearly 34,000 students, and is one of Boston's largest employers. It offers bachelor's degrees, master's degrees, doctorates, and medical, dental, business, and law degrees through 17 schools and colleges on three urban campuses. The main campus is situated along the Charles River in Boston's Fenway-Kenmore and Allston, Massachusetts, Allston neighborhoods, while the Boston University Medical Campus is located in Boston's South End, Boston, South End neighborhood. The Fenway campus houses the Wheelock College of Education and Human Development, formerly Wheelock College, which merged with BU in 2018. BU is a member of the Bo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
ThaiBev
Thai Beverage, better known as ThaiBev ( th, ไทยเบฟ) (), is Thailand's largest and one of Southeast Asia's largest beverage companies, with distilleries in Thailand, UK, and China. It is owned by Thai Chinese billionaire business magnate Charoen Sirivadhanabhakdi. Listed on the Singapore Stock Exchange, Thai Beverage plc has a market capitalization in excess of US$13 billion. In 2004, the firm announced it had succeeded in a US$11.2 billion deal to take over the conglomerate Fraser and Neave, adding to the group's portfolio of assets. History ThaiBev was founded on 29 October 2003 with the consolidation of 58 beer and spirits businesses, among them Chang beer, second in the beer market after Singha. It is owned by Charoen Sirivadhanabhakdi, a Chinese immigrant. ThaiBev brands include green-tea beverage Oishi and Est, a cola knockoff. The Sirivadhanabhakdi family's stake in Thai Beverage is around 30%. Charoen is chairman and his son Thapana serves as president and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Charoen Sirivadhanabhakdi
Charoen Sirivadhanabhakdi ( th, เจริญ สิริวัฒนภักดี; ; ; born 2 May 1944) is a Thai business magnate and investor. He is the founder of Thai Beverage, and the chairman of conglomerates TCC Group and Fraser and Neave, Ltd (F&N). The Sirivadhanabhakdi family is now Thailand's largest property developer and landlord of 630,000 rai (100,800 hectares), plus commercial and retail buildings in Singapore. He also owns 50 hotels in Asia, the US, UK, and Australia, including Plaza Athénée in Manhattan, New York City, US, and The Okura Prestige Bangkok. , ''Forbes'' estimates his net worth at US$10.5 billion. In 1988, King Bhumibol of Thailand granted the family the Thai surname "Sirivadhanabhakdi". Early life Born to a Thai Chinese family in 1944, Charoen is the sixth of eleven children of a poor street vendor who migrated to Bangkok from Shantou. His Chinese name is Su Xuming (). Like many other Chinese immigrants, the family later adopted a Thai ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thai Chinese
Thai Chinese (also known as Chinese Thais, Sino-Thais), Thais of Chinese origin ( th, ชาวไทยเชื้อสายจีน; ''exonym and also domestically''), endonym Thai people ( th, ชาวไทย), are Chinese descendants in Thailand. Thai Chinese are the largest minority group in the country and the largest overseas Chinese community in the world with a population of approximately 7-10 million people, accounting for 11–14% of the total population of the country as of 2012. It is also the oldest and most prominent integrated overseas Chinese community. Slightly more than half of the ethnic Chinese population in Thailand trace their ancestry to Chaoshan. This is evidenced by the prevalence of the Teochew dialect among the Chinese community in Thailand as well as other Chinese languages.The term as commonly understood signifies those whose ancestors immigrated to Thailand before 1949. The Thai Chinese have been deeply ingrained into all elements of Thai ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Su (surname)
Su is the pinyin romanization of Chinese, romanization of the list of common Chinese surnames, common Chinese surname written in simplified characters and traditional characters, traditionally. It was listed 42nd among the Song dynasty, Song-era list of the ''Hundred Family Surnames''. In 2019 it was the 46th most common surname in mainland China. Romanizations The Wade-Giles, Wade form of the name is identical to the pinyin, but it is also sometimes irregularly romanized as Soo (surname), Soo. and are also romanized SO (other)#People, So and Sou (surname), Sou in Cantonese; Soh (surname), Soh and Souw (surname), Souw in Southern Min dialects; Soh (surname), Soh in Teochew dialect, Teochew; and Thu (surname), Thu in Gan Chinese, Gan. This Chinese name is also the source of the Vietnamese surname Tô (surname), Tô (Chữ Nôm: ); the Korean surname , which is romanization of Korean, romanized So (Korean name), So; the Japanese surname , which is also romanization o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1970s Births
Year 197 ( CXCVII) was a common year starting on Saturday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar. At the time, it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Magius and Rufinus (or, less frequently, year 950 ''Ab urbe condita''). The denomination 197 for this year has been used since the early medieval period, when the Anno Domini calendar era became the prevalent method in Europe for naming years. Events By place Roman Empire * February 19 – Battle of Lugdunum: Emperor Septimius Severus defeats the self-proclaimed emperor Clodius Albinus at Lugdunum (modern Lyon). Albinus commits suicide; legionaries sack the town. * Septimius Severus returns to Rome and has about 30 of Albinus's supporters in the Senate executed. After his victory he declares himself the adopted son of the late Marcus Aurelius. * Septimius Severus forms new naval units, manning all the triremes in Italy with heavily armed troops for war in the East. His soldiers embark on an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Living People
Related categories * :Year of birth missing (living people) / :Year of birth unknown * :Date of birth missing (living people) / :Date of birth unknown * :Place of birth missing (living people) / :Place of birth unknown * :Year of death missing / :Year of death unknown * :Date of death missing / :Date of death unknown * :Place of death missing / :Place of death unknown * :Missing middle or first names See also * :Dead people * :Template:L, which generates this category or death years, and birth year and sort keys. : {{DEFAULTSORT:Living people 21st-century people People by status ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thai Chief Executives
Thai or THAI may refer to: * Of or from Thailand, a country in Southeast Asia ** Thai people, the dominant ethnic group of Thailand ** Thai language, a Tai-Kadai language spoken mainly in and around Thailand *** Thai script *** Thai (Unicode block) People with the name * Thai (surname), a Vietnamese version of Cai, including a list of people with the name * Thai Lee (born 1958), an American businesswoman * Thai Nguyen, US-based Vietnamese fashion designer and television personality Other uses * Thai (cannabis), a name for the drug * Thai Airways, the national airline of Thailand * Thai cat, a breed of cat * Thai, a month in the Tamil calendar * Toe to Heel Air Injection (THAI), a method of extracting oil from oil sands See also * * Dai (other) * Tai (other) * Tay (other) * Thais (other) * Thay (other) * Tie (other) * Siam (other) * Tai peoples or Thai peoples, the ethnic groups of southern China and Southeast ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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