Tan Sri Dr. Lim Wee Chai is the Executive Chairman and Founder of Top Glove Corporation Bhd, the world’s largest manufacturer of gloves with 26% of the global market share.
Under his visionary stewardship, the company which was established in 1991, was listed on Bursa Malaysia (the Kuala Lumpur Stock Exchange) in 2001 and the Singapore Exchange (SGX) in 2016. Top Glove operates 43 factories across Malaysia, Thailand and China with a total of 687 glove production lines and a production capacity of 70.5 billion pieces of gloves per annum. It serves a network of over 2,000 customers across 195 countries. As at 19 January 2020, the company’s market capitalisation was RM 12.3 billion or US$ 3 billion.