The bulk of it is drawn from a close-to 60% stake in Japan’s Nippon Paint Holdings, the world’s fourth-largest paint company by sales ($11 billion), where his 72-year-old son, Hup Jin, has been chairman since 2018. The late patriarch got his start buying cheap paint from the British army, and selling his Pigeon brand during the post-war years. In 1962, when Japan’s Nippon Paint was looking to expand into Southeast Asia, Goh grabbed the chance to become a distributor for the region and then a joint venture partner.
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Published at: 2025-09-03 21:45:00
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