Wei Chuan Foods () is a Taiwan-based manufacturer of Chinese condiments, canned goods, drinks, and frozen goods. Its more popular, widely recognized products include canned pickles, soy sauce and oyster sauces, and frozen dumplings and

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History

The predecessor of Wei-Chuan Food Corporation was founded in 1953 by Huang Lieh-ho as part of

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Group as Hotai Chemical Engineering Corporation, to produce MSG and soy sauce to enrich the everyday lives of people. In believing that the dairy industry could improve the living standard and nutrition standard of citizens and thereby promote rural economic development and compensate food inadequacy, Wei-Chuan established the dairy product department in the beginning of the 1960s out of the company's insistence on establishing a “public company”. This started the diversification of Wei-Chuan into an integrated food manufacturing company. Today, the founder Huang Lieh-ho was also called the “Father of the dairy industry” in Taiwan for this reason. With the food business diversification planning of Huang, Wei-Chuan became the largest food processing and manufacturing company in Taiwan in the 1960s and 1970s. In 1998,

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became the largest (40%) shareholder following an ownership and management fight within the founding Huang family. Huang family and Hotai Motor divest its 33% shares after losing the biggest shareholder status. One of the joint ventures, Formosa Flexible Packaging, was move back to Hotai Motor Group. Huang family maintained majority ownership of

Wei-Chuan USA Wei-Chuan USA was founded by the original parent company Wei-Chuan Food Corporation of Taiwan in 1972. Wei-Chuan USA's corporate logo includes five red circles which represent the five basic flavors: sweet, sour, salty, bitter, and umami. Wei-Chu ...

, which owns the right to Wei-Chuan brand in the US, Europe, and Australia. As part of the agreement, Wei-Chuan divest its investment from Wei-Chuan USA in 2000. Thus Wei-Chuan and Wei-Chuan USA became separate entities with different ownership groups. In Taiwan, the company was often seen as the chief rival of Uni-President Enterprises Corporation.

Wei-Chuan USA

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. Its products are similar to its parent company's. Wei-Chuan USA's corporate logo includes five red balls which represent the five basic flavors.

Sports

Wei-Chuan formerly sponsored the

Wei Chuan Dragons The Wei Chuan Dragons () are a professional baseball team in Taiwan's Chinese Professional Baseball League (CPBL) that originally existed between 1990 and 1999. In 2019, negotiations regarding the franchise's revival and return to the CPBL took ...

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team. The team was formally the leader in championships before its dismiss in 1999 by the company's new parent company Ting Hsin International. In 2019, it is announced that Wei-Chuan will re-joined the Taiwanese Baseball League by reestablished Wei-Chuan Dragons in 2020.

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History

Wei-Chuan USA

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