Want Want Holdings Limited (Want Want; ) is a Taiwanese food manufacturer and media corporation. It is Taiwan's largest rice cake and flavored drink manufacturers.[2][3] It engages in the manufacturing and trading of snack foods and beverages, divided into four businesses: rice crackers, dairy products, beverages, snack foods (candies, jellies, popsicles, nuts, and ball cakes), and other products.[4] It operates over 100 manufacturing plants in China as Want Want China and two in Taiwan, and employs over 60,000 people.[5]
History
In 1962, Want Want began operations in the name of I Lan Foods Industrial Company Limited in Yilan County, Taiwan, which manufactured canned agricultural products. It was founded by Jonathan Shuai Qiang Ng.[6]