Nippon Paint partner Goh Cheng Liang is a Singaporean billionaire who owns the world’s largest tri-hulled superyacht – who is the owner of Wuthelam Holdings?
Goh Cheng Liang launched the Pigeon Brand paint business with some cheap old stock, and grew it into a partnership with global giant Nippon Paints – of which he now holds 60 per cent
Thanks to a long career in paints and wall coatings, Goh Cheng Liang has helped countless people around the world decorate their homes. That started in 1949 with the creation of his own paint brand called Pigeon, before a partnership with Nippon Paint, one of the biggest paint brands in the world, set Goh on the way to amassing a fortune.
Just this August, news of a merger between Goh’s Wuthelam Holdings and Nippon Paint made waves, bringing his overall stake in the brand to just a little below 60 per cent and leading to Forbes estimating his personal net worth at a colossal US$18.4 billion.