At age 25 the only connection George Quek had to food was to be the proverbial starving artist. The Singaporean was in Taipei on a quest to be a painter, backed by 2,000 Singapore dollars from his ...

MAINBOARD-LISTED food and beverage player BreadTalk's founder George Quek is embarking on his biggest personal investment - acquiring a majority stake in Taiwan's Pacific Sogo Department Stores. The ...

BREADTALK Group's George Quek, his wife Katherine Lee and a substantial shareholder have launched a voluntary conditional cash offer for all the ordinary shares in BreadTalk at S$0.77 apiece, with a ...

The offer price of $0.77 per share represents a premium of about 19.4 per cent over the closing price of $0.645 on Feb 21, and a 30.1 per cent premium over the one-month volume weighted average price.

George Quek, the company's founder and chairman, told China Daily he expects its mainland revenue to grow at least 30 percent a year, as Chinese consumers opt for a lunchtime sandwich, roll or ...

BREADTALK founder George Quek is looking to a Singapore-Taiwan free trade pact to resolve the issues encountered in his recent personal acquisition of Taiwan's Pacific Sogo Department Stores. Mr Quek ...

BREADTALK founder George Quek is looking to a Singapore-Taiwan trade pact signed in 2014 to resolve the issues encountered in his recent personal acquisition of Taiwan's Pacific Sogo Department Stores ...

SINGAPORE – When BreadTalk Group founder and chairman George Quek decided to acquire traditional Teochew bakery Thye Moh Chan, his motivation was “half commercial, half sentimental”.

At just 25 years old, George Quek and his then-girlfriend (now wife), Katherine Lee, made a pivotal decision to leave for Taiwan — but little did they know that this decision would spark his ...

That’s a premium of around 20% on the closing price before the announcement was made. The major shareholders include George Quek, his wife, Catherine Lee, and Thai-listed hospitality company, Minor ...

When Mr George Quek was a struggling businessman in Taiwan back in the 1980s, he had a dream. He and his wife were driving up to Yangmingshan, a scenic area outside Taipei, one day when they ...