Thai Tycoon Drives Online Sales Of Southeast Asia’s Biggest Wholesale Food Market

Retail magnate Pradit Phataraprasit, a former deputy finance minister of Thailand, draws the bulk of his family’s wealth of $1.22 billion from the Mall Group, operator of Bangkok’s shopping hotspots such as Siam Paragon, Emporium and the gigantic, 200,000-square-meter Emsphere Mall, which opened in December.