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Wong Yip Yan, also known as Y.Y. Wong, is an influential Singaporean Chinese businessman, and founder of the Wywy Group of Companies.〔〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://investing.businessweek.com/research/stocks/private/person.asp?personId=22101681&privcapId=40536251 )〕〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.wolfson.cam.ac.uk/people/dr-yip-yan-wong )〕 According to Businessweek, the Wywy Group controlled 76 companies and had annual sales of over $900 million.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.businessweek.com/stories/1995-03-05/y-dot-y-dot-wong-owns-76-companies-and-hes-still-hungry )〕 Wong retained 100% ownership until the group was sold in the late 1990s.〔 While Wong is a billionaire, his exact net worth is unknown. ==Career== When Wong was 26, he became the first Singaporean director at Borneo Company Limited, a British trading company. Wong said his boss told him that a Chinese couldn't get promoted to the company's main board of directors, causing Wong to start his own business.〔 To start the Wywy Group, Wong got funding from executives of Fujifilm, who had worked with Wong at Borneo. They helped him get a credit line of $178,000 from The Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi UFJ, which allowed him to start the Wywy Group as a distributor of copy machines.〔 Wong also served as the Chairman of Yeo Hiap Seng, Singapore's largest drink manufacturer.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www-cgi.cnn.com/ASIANOW/asiaweek/95/0728/biz1.html )〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Wong Yip Yan」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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