Lim Wee Chai

$1.26B

$15.8M (1.3%)

as of 01/25/25

About Lim Wee Chai

Lim Wee Chai started Top Glove with his wife Tong Siew Bee in 1991 and took the company public in 2001.

Top Glove is one of the world's largest producers of rubber gloves. It has 48 factories with an annual capacity of 95 billion gloves.

Lim, whose parents are rubber plantation owners and traders, also holds a stake in property developer Tropicana.

Lim postponed plans for a Hong Kong listing amid a sharp drop in profits.

Personal stats

Citizenship

Malaysia

Source of wealth

rubber gloves

Residence

Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

Marital status

Married

Birth date

01/07/58 (age 67)

Number of children

Education

Master of Business Administration, Sul Ross State University; Bachelor of Arts/Science, University of Malaya

Self-made

self-made

Lim Wee Chai’s fortune is worth

21K

troy ounces of gold

19K

median U.S. household

13K

median U.S. income

0.025%

U.S. credit card volume

0.005%

GDP of the United States

0.004%

United States debt

Net worth history

Annual ranking

Net worth over time

Real-time ranking

Financial assets

MALAYSIA | 5789-MY

LBS BINA Group Bhd

MALAYSIA | 7113-MY

Top Glove Corp. Bhd

MALAYSIA | 5401-MY

Tropicana Corp. Bhd.