Want Want

Want Want
Industry	Food and drink; media
Founded	1962
Founder	Jonathan Shuai Qiang Ng
Key people	Tan Swee Ling; (Board member)
Subsidiaries	Want Want China, China Times

Want Want Holdings Limited (Want Want; Chinese: 旺旺集團有限公司; pinyin: Wàngwàng Jítuán Yǒuxiàn Gōngsī) is a food manufacturer and media corporation from Taiwan. It is one of the largest rice cake and flavored drink manufacturers in Taiwan.^[2]^[3] It engages in the manufacturing and trading of snack foods and beverages, divided into four businesses: rice crackers, dairy products, beverages, snack foods (candies, jellies, popsicles, nuts, and ball cakes), and other products.^[4] It operates over 100 manufacturing plants in mainland China and 2 in Taiwan, and employs over 60,000 people.^[5] Want Want is politically Chinese nationalist, and is also associated with the Taiwan's conservative camp.^[6]

^ "Want Want Holdings Ltd - Company Profile and News". Bloomberg News.
^ "Taiwan's Wei family to buy cable TV operator CNS for $2.4 bln -source". Reuters. 2014-08-24. Retrieved 2021-01-26.
^ "China Times Group is sold to Want Want - Taipei Times". www.taipeitimes.com. 2008-11-05. Retrieved 2021-01-26.
^ bakeryandsnacks.com (13 June 2018). "Want Want Holdings set to be 'one of the greatest brands in Chinese history'". bakeryandsnacks.com. Retrieved 2021-02-11.
^ "TAIWAN: China Times Group is sold to Want Want". Archived from the original on 2012-02-13. Retrieved 2009-02-23.
^ Jeffrey Kingston; Tina Burrett (November 5, 2019). Press Freedom in Contemporary Asia. Taylor & Francis. Even so, the anti-media monopoly legislation remains a work in progress, due mainly to the controversy between the reformist camp (i.e., DPP, the New Power Party and media reform groups) and the conservative camp (i.e., KMT and the Want Want-China Times Media Group) about what criteria should be used to separate the financial and media industries.

[1] "Want Want Holdings Ltd - Company Profile and News". Bloomberg News.

[2] "Taiwan's Wei family to buy cable TV operator CNS for $2.4 bln -source". Reuters. 2014-08-24. Retrieved 2021-01-26.

[3] "China Times Group is sold to Want Want - Taipei Times". www.taipeitimes.com. 2008-11-05. Retrieved 2021-01-26.

[4] ryandsnacks.com (13 June 2018). "Want Want Holdings set to be 'one of the greatest brands in Chinese history'". bakeryandsnacks.com. Retrieved 2021-02-11.

[asiamedia.ucla.edu-5] "TAIWAN: China Times Group is sold to Want Want". Archived from the original on 2012-02-13. Retrieved 2009-02-23.

[6] Jeffrey Kingston; Tina Burrett (November 5, 2019). Press Freedom in Contemporary Asia. Taylor & Francis. Even so, the anti-media monopoly legislation remains a work in progress, due mainly to the controversy between the reformist camp (i.e., DPP, the New Power Party and media reform groups) and the conservative camp (i.e., KMT and the Want Want-China Times Media Group) about what criteria should be used to separate the financial and media industries.

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