Thai Wah Company Limited was formed in 1947. In its early years, the company traded tungsten and tin ore. In the early 50�s, Thai Wah began to expand and increase its activities to chemical analysis of many kinds of products and research in food processing. Since then the company started to go through a series of expansion programs, especially in the area of tapioca starch, tapioca pellets and kenaf exports. Several manufacturing factories were then established.

The 1980�s marked a new era of development for Thai Wah operation as Thai Wah built a 24-stories office condominium cladded with granite and glass called �Thai Wah Tower� in its old office site at South Sathorn Road in Bangkok. This building was completed in 1985. In the same year of 1985, Thai Wah was listed in the Security Exchange of Thailand and became a public-listed company.

Since then, Thai Wah ventured into many property development projects, to start with an integrated resort in Phuket which accommodated 5 five � star resort hotels, lagoon condominiums and villages, a 18 hole golf course and other related facilities sprawling over 1,500 acres of land. Land banks in Bangkok and other provinces in the northern, southern and other parts of the country were also acquired for new project developments.

Today, Thai Wah Group owns and operates seven modern starch mills producing over 30,000 tons of native tapioca starch a month. In the starch field of industry, new developments have also been reached in the manufacture of modified specialty starches of tapioca base for the various food and non-food industries. With its own warehouse and other related facilities, Thai Wah has been playing a loading role in supplying a major portion of the conutry's production of tapioca starch to both domestic and international markets for over 40 years

Thai Wah Food products public Company Limited, a subsidiary of Thai Wah, manufactures mungbean vermicelli known as �Thai Glass Noodle� or �Chinese Fen Si� and mungbean pastry sheet known as �Shanghai Glass Noodle� for the local and export markets. With its second factory occupying 10 hectares operating since 1984, Thai Wah Food has become the largest producer of its kind in the world.

One of the largest property developments of the Thai Wah Group, which is most stunning and sky-rising presently in Thailand, is the Thai Wah Tower II. It is a new 60-stories city condominium completed in 1996 with an investment as high as 2,300 million baht in approximation. The lower levels of this building (around 23 stories) accommodate offices with a total area of over 16,500 square metres. The upper stories embrace a luxurious all suites hotel which offers over 200 luxurious suites and attracts primarily the up-market business travellers.