Thread: Forbes: Dhanin richest man in Thailand

Rather think some mistake here, surely?

Always has, always will be and I am not sure if he can even speak Thai............

I think someones missing at the top of the list, but if i rember rightly if you name him, a siamse twin will come along and hit you.

But lets stick to those named in the list and many of the others, its clear that to become one of the super rich what you really need is to create a business in a poorly regulated country and get the government to give you some natural reasource so you can get rich by stealing from everyone in the country and keeping most of the money you get for selling it. And for those who cannot pull off this stunt, just get a government /licence, telecoms, alcohol, land...... And impose a keep a decent profit margin otherwise known as the rich richer 'tax' on the entire population.

By fair means and fowl (snigger), Dhanin has built a formidable agri-industrial & retail empire. Last thing I knew CP was the worlds largest chicken processor- thanks to it's operations in China, and Tesco Lotus & 711 aren't exactly chicken feed either. Impressive.

Smoke and Mirrors boys, smoke and mirrors!!!!!!

The second richest person in Thailand is TCC Holding chairman and liquor tycoon Charoen Sirivadhanabhakdi, with $5.5 billion. Mr Charoen's ranking went up from 247th to 184th.

Responsible for the sorry state of junkies' piss "beer" in Thailand. *hic* Cheers! You cnut.

Originally Posted by sabang

By fair means and fowl (snigger), Dhanin has built a formidable agri-industrial & retail empire. Last thing I knew CP was the worlds largest chicken processor- thanks to it's operations in China, and Tesco Lotus & 711 aren't exactly chicken feed either. Impressive.

I think its inevitable that once you decide to have a controlled economy where connections rather than efficacy are the real driving forces to business success, you end up with a bunch of empire building Arthur Daly's running the show. After all these are the people who understand that the true path to wealth is finding some politicians who's primary interests in power, stuffing their mouths and feeding their pricks, you can finance with a small percentage of what you make from the inefficiencies they create for you.

As I understand in the case of CP, their china operations are now somewhat bigger than their thai. I gather its a result of the trade agreement between china and thailand.... where all import duties/tariffs were removed from chinese imports in exchange for thai businesses being allowed to operate in china. Quite clever of china really, if chinese imports start to seriously hurt thailands farmers and sme's there's nothing the thai government can do about it that would not seriously harm the really important people like the boss of CP.

It's a bit of stretch to call Dhanin Chearavanont the "richest man in Thailand," if you actually have to be in, not to mention of, Thailand for that distinction.

Originally Posted by hazz

their china operations are now somewhat bigger than their thai

True, they have large agro and motorbike factories in China.

I suspect they are trying to get big in Malaysia as well.
My neighbour is vice president of CP and he is based in Malaysia unless he comes home to visit his family.

Originally Posted by thegent

Rather think some mistake here, surely?

Yeah...they tend to intentionally miss one or two [top dog] on that beloved list.

Similar to landed aristocracy in Europe, it's pretty difficult to quantify the actual net worth of the handful of massive land holding families in Thailand. Much easier to value shares than millions of Rai, used for many and varied purposes.

Yes they have raped Thailand good and proper to get that soute of money.

Raped??? No.....

I prefer Graped!!! because there was a bunch of them through history here in Rapeland that have done more than anyone.