Kelly Zong

Kelly Fuli Zong (Chinese: 宗馥莉, born 1982) is a Chinese businesswoman. Zong is the purchasing manager at Wahaha and controls about 80 percent of the company of Hangzhou Wahaha Group along with her mother Shi Youzhen and father Zong Qinghou, the third richest man in China.[1][2]

Education and career

Zong left China for the United States to attend high school, and went on to graduate from Pepperdine University in 2004.[3] She naturalized as a United States citizen, and spent some time living with her mother in San Marino, California.[4][5] However, Chinese media reported in 2007 that she was in the process of applying to renounce U.S. citizenship.[6] A notice confirming her loss of citizenship was published in the United States government's Quarterly Publication of Individuals Who Have Chosen to Expatriate in November 2010.[7]

References

  1. ↑ "Wahaha's rags-to-riches chairman has last laugh". Portland Press-Herald. 2012-11-10. Retrieved 2013-03-04.
  2. ↑ "Wahaha's Kelly Zong: I see further into the future than my father". Want China Times. 2012-10-08. Retrieved 2013-03-04.
  3. ↑ "Kelly Zong, daughter of Chinese billionaire beverage tycoon Zong Qinghou, says she never had a boyfriend". Belle News. 2013-01-14. Retrieved 2013-03-04.
  4. ↑ "Chairman of Danone's joint venture in China, Wahaha, resigns". The New York Times. 2007-06-07. Retrieved 2013-03-04.
  5. ↑ "Kelly Zong, daughter of China's richest man to brew her way into US, Europe". What's On Jinan. 2013-01-13. Retrieved 2013-03-04.
  6. ↑ "宗庆后女儿为啥不早点放弃美国国籍 (Why Zong Qinghou's daughter didn't renounce U.S. citizenship sooner)". China Business Times. 2007-07-20. Retrieved 2013-03-04.
  7. ↑ Angie Kaminski, Internal Revenue Service (2010-11-10). "Quarterly Publication of Individuals, Who Have Chosen To Expatriate, as Required by Section 6039G". Federal Register 75: 69160. Retrieved 2013-03-04.