Tan Sri Lim Wee Chai, aged 53, a Malaysian citizen, is the Chairman and founder of Top Glove Group of Companies. The Group was established in 1991 and was listed in Bursa Malaysia (Kuala Lumpur Stock Exchange) on 27 March 2001.
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Tan Sri Lim graduated with a Bachelor of Science Degree with Honours in Physics in 1982 from University Malaya, and obtained his Master of Business Administration in 1985 from Sul Ross State University in Texas, United States.
In 1991, Tan Sri Lim founded Top Glove Sdn Bhd, a rubber glove manufacturing and trading business which started with only three production lines. Under Tan Sri Lim’s visionary stewardship, Top Glove has since grown to be the world’s largest rubber glove manufacturer, capturing about 26% of the world market share. Today, the company owns and operates 22 factories with a total of 437 production lines in Malaysia, Thailand and China. These factories have a production capacity of 40 billion pieces of gloves per annum, to meet the demand of over 1000 customers in more than 185 countries.
Tan Sri Lim has been actively involved in many glove industry related associations and organizations in Malaysia. He served as the President of the Malaysian Rubber Glove Manufacturers’ Association (MARGMA) from 1997-1999. Prior to that, he served as the Vice-President, Honorary Secretary and Treasurer of MARGMA for the past seven years. In addition, he was also the Director of the Association of Malaysia Medical Industries (AMMI) and Board Member of the Malaysia Rubber Board in 1998 and 1999. In view of Tan Sri’s vast experience in manufacturing and global business, he was appointed as a Council Member of the Federation of Malaysian Manufacturers (FMM) in 2010 and subsequently in 2011, as an Executive Council Member of The East Asia Business Council (EABC) by the Minister of International Trade and Industry Malaysia.
Tan Sri was also the recipient of many awards and accolades, among others, like the prestigious Master and Country Entrepreneur of Malaysia for the Year, by Ernst and Young in 2004; and Entrepreneur of the Year at the Asia Pacific Entrepreneurship Awards 2008.
At the corporate level, under the dynamic leadership of Tan Sri Lim, Top Glove had been awarded the following awards:-
1. ASEAN Business Awards 2010 by ASEAN Business Advisory Council
2. IDC Enterprise Innovation Awards 2010
3. CIO Asia Awards 2010 for e-business by CIO Asia
4. Growth Excellence Award 2009 by Frost & Sullivan
5. Ranked number 1 among Top 100 companies in Bursa Malaysia with the best returns over the past five years, between 2002 to 2006, by The Edge in 2007
6. Ranked number 1 in the Enterprise 50 Award 2007, by SME Corp, Malaysia
7. Rubber Industry Award by Malaysian Rubber Board for the latex products category in 2005
8. Annual Regional Best Managed Companies Award 2005 by Finance Asia
9. KLSE Main Board Corporate Merit Award 2003 (Industrial Product Sector) by Bursa Malaysia in 2004
10. KPMG Shareholder Value Award 2004