The Want Want Group is generally not bad, but its performance in recent years has not been as good as it used to be, but it is still a large enterprise.
Want Want formally invested in the mainland market in 1992, is Taiwan's first registered trademark in the mainland and has the most registered trademarks of the company in 1994 set up the first factory in Hunan, Want Want uphold the "edge, self-confidence, unity" business philosophy, aspire to become a "comprehensive consumer food kingdom". With the business philosophy of "Karma, Confidence and Great Unity", Want Want aspires to become a "comprehensive consumer food kingdom", and keeps advancing towards the goal of "No. 1 in China and No. 1 in the world".
In order to enhance the company's image, capitalize its resources and investment opportunities, and develop sources of funding, Want Want Holdings Pte Ltd, a Singaporean investment holding company, was established in October 1995 and listed on the first tier of the Singapore Exchange Securities Trading Limited (SGX-ST) in May 1996, and was renamed Want Want Holdings Pte Ltd.
The company is actively involved in various public welfare programs. To date, the company has established the Want Want Foundation in China and Singapore, as well as the Want Want Cultural and Educational Foundation and the Taipei Shih-Chiao Welfare Foundation in Taiwan, all of which provide assistance and support to the elderly, the poor and the less fortunate.
In 2009, the Want Want Group entered the media industry by buying China Times, a media company that owned China Times, Business Times, China Television Corporation, and CCTV, and was facing huge losses.
Since the change of management right of the electronic media needs to be reviewed by the National Communications Commission (NCC), although the NCC has passed the change of directors and supervisors of the two electronic media, the approval of the disposition includes the requirement that the directors and supervisors should not be duplicated, and that there should be an independent director and an independent studio, which has led to the controversy of violating the law of administration, and in the face of the controversy, the Want Want Group is strongly dissatisfied with the situation and uses the media to counterattack.
The so-called objective and impartial civil society organizations, such as the Media Watch Foundation and the Society for Media Reform, said that if Want Want did not allow the case to return to the field of public **** rational discussion, it would call on everyone to reject the three Chinese. The Want Want group then published a half-page broadside on the front page of the China Times demanding that those who had slandered and criticized the case apologize, or they would take legal action.
As of June 14, 2009, four academics and journalists had received the letters. A very small number of bloggers believe that the Want Want Group, as a private media organization, is using legal intimidation to suppress the freedom of expression of the public***, and have launched the "I want Want Want's certified letter too" campaign series.