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Lui Che Woo
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Lui Che Woo

Entrepreneur · born August 9, 1929 · died 2024

$14.6Bolder estimate, as of 2019 · Forbes

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Lui Che Woo, GBM, GBS, MBE, JP was a Hong Kong business magnate, investor and philanthropist. He founded K. Wah Company in 1955, which later became a multinational conglomerate, K. Wah Group. The group has two listed flagships, K.

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