Showing posts with label Zhou Qunfei. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Zhou Qunfei. Show all posts

Friday, March 09, 2018

China dominates the woman self-made billionaires - Rupert Hoogewerf

Rupert Hoogewerf
Chinese women dominate the Hurun global self-made woman rich list, says Hurun founder Rupert Hoogewerf. The list is released on today's Women's Day, and has Zhou Qunfei of the Lens Technology firm as the topper, says the BBC.

The BBC:
China has once again dominated a list of global self-made woman billionaires. 
The top four women in the report by publisher Hurun - and five of the top 10 - come from the Asian superpower. 
Zhou Qunfei, who founded a firm that makes glass used to cover laptops and smartphones, was the world's richest self-made woman, with $9.8bn (£7.1bn). 
Her company Lens Technology has contracts with some of the biggest technology firms, and counts Apple and Samsung as its main customers... 
In total, 28 of the top 50 on the Hurun self-made list are from China. 
Ms Zhou took the top spot from Beijing-based real estate developer Chen Lihua ($8.1bn). 
Ms Chen, who runs Fu Wah International, slipped to third after her wealth barely changed since 2017. 
Another property developer, Wu Yajun from the western city of Chongqing, moved into second place. She is worth $9.3bn after a staggering 83% leap in her fortune in just 12 months. 
The richest self-made woman from outside China is American Diane Hendricks, the co-founder of Wisconsin-based ABC Supply, one of the US's largest distributors of roofing and windows.
More at the BBC.

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Friday, December 04, 2015

Zhou Qunfei, China´s ambitious richest woman - Rupert Hoogewerf

Rupert Hoogewerf
Rupert Hoogewerf
Zhou Qunfei, owner of Lens Technology, now China´s richest woman, is yet another rags-to-richest story from China. Ambition and success have been on her path, tells Hurun China´s rich list founder Rupert Hoogewerf to the Australian Financial Review. Ambition and taking risk is what most rich women have in common, he says.

The Financial Review:
Rupert Hoogewerf, founder of Hurun, who has spent most of the past 18 years in China researching the country's wealthy, says driven, ambitious risk-takers such as Zhou, regardless of their gender, thrived as China opened up its economy to the world in the 1980s and 1990s, and all of a sudden people were allowed and even encouraged to make money. 
"Women here have a lot of ambition," says the 45-year-old, who studied Chinese language and history in Britain before moving to Shanghai and setting up Hurun, which has become the definitive source of fortune rankings in the country. 
"This group of women at the top is representative of a much larger base of women entrepreneurs underneath, and that's where the real story is. I don't feel that same sense of entrepreneurship among my female friends in Britain or even, in some cases, in the US. There is this sense that there is an opportunity to be seized here. Let's just go for it."... 
"It turned out that [she is] probably the most successful self-made woman in the world," Hoogewerf  says. "This is somebody that nobody in the world knew about this time last year. It's a phenomenal story."
More in the Australian Financial Review.

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