The Thai Union story begins in the backstreets of Bangkok in the 19705 when Christ on Chanii started a textile trading company in Chinatown. One day, one letter from my father's French from Hong Kong, he said to me, the new company import frozen shrimp from talent. I know nothing about, I know telling her, but I don't know where I can get those. And also, I no credit not because I is a not a good mate. Now With his brother, Cheng Neon Christon added a lot more zeros to make a very big number. Thai Union's annual sales, total more than 4 billion US dollars. They're both have two different roles, good grace on his, uh, in chat of nance. And at that time it was quite crucial when the company was very small and need credit line to, to expand the businesses. On the other hand, he's in charge of operation procurement and sales marketing. So he basically in charge of the entire operation, TA is now a global seafood leader supplying household brands around the world. Extraordinary growth and success from very humble beginnings. And a large part of that success is due to the word humble, being part of the company's ethos. Humble is always something that my father take it very serious and then ask our family members to be humble and we understand where and who we came from. And once our life is better, we should never forget. Christ Lord's humble and open-minded approach to life and business has been key to Thai union's development from the very beginning. Thai Union manufacturing ofcially formed in 1977, but it was a much more modest operation than today. In the seventies, we start actually only have a couple hundred workers, and now that we have more than, uh, 50,000 workers and staff around the world, and especially from here in MA, that we have more than 30,000 people right now. Because few people outside Thailand, rst year of operation didn't even reach 1 million in exports because few people outside Thailand had heard of the company and TM was not a known and trusted brand. Christon Chang and the team focused on obtaining quality assurance and certicates from external auditors, and then began inviting other companies to trade with Thai Union. Gradually the company built a reputation for quality and reliability. Again, success was due largely to the company's attitude to life and work that extends to everyone in Thai Union. It doesn't matter who you are, | asked him to say, factory can come home. You take the bus, you can connect with our staff. You can know every person. The company at that time was growing, uh, quite rapidly. You, you work like, uh, 312 days in a year. You work on many Sundays. I spent many hours in the factory. I like to work with people. | talk to people. I know people from the ground up to the management level. In one year, We, you used to stay, work and stay at the factory. We stay in very, very small room. We up, we go to work, and after work, we come back to sleep in the factory together with our worker at the factory, Not treat them as a worker. We treat them as our people. Not only keep them, ex him and also give a chance to promote them. I think very simple philosophy at the time, honesty and hardworking. At the time, you, you, you had to work hard. After ve years of trading, the hard work began to pay off 2 Clark Cunning was founded in 1981, followed just seven years later by m products. Our direction is clear. I think it's good for a company to have diversied to not only ambient, but we have another of Rothen. Ironically, the biggest turning point in Thai union's. Fortunes came during one of the worst nancial years on record, 1997. Unlike other companies that collapsed in the Tom Yoong crisis, Tai Union had no US dollar debts. The company's share price rose rapidly by 600%. At the same time, Cheang Chrysler and the team were aware that although Ty Union had established a good reputation with its clients, the company name was still unknown. Before snip\And he said, come to Info Fish. Now I have Greenpeace here. And he had brought the Greenpeace people literally to the table and were holding them there until I could get there. And that was the start of the dialogue that we had with Greenpeace. Ang wanted to make sure that Thai Union was being a good company and that we understood what the challenges were that others could see, so that we could take appropriate action. It's a successful strategy that has had long-term benets to the company, the workforce and the environment. Since Wimplemented the sea change sustainability strategy and tuna commitment, the company is now recognized as a seafood industry leader. Labor issues attack from the NGOs we see as a issues. We see it also as an opportunities to change, to improve. Next 40 years, next 40 years. In my main, we not only, not only to try to expand our market, not only see it's more important in nor. This is what the future of Thai Union looks like. It's called the Global Innovation Incubator or gij, Although we only start three years ago. But I can see a huge future in the g1. We will bring a lot of new products, you know, a lot of new exciting products into consumer mind. Tuna has got to be a little bit more sexy, you know, in a, in a pouch, in a cup, uh, W uh, many kinds of tuna. We've Taken a piece of tuna and made it like a piece of Turkey where it can be sliced and put on a sandwich the same way as Turkey or ham or something like that. In the US we're calling it sliced yellow and tuna loin. We work very close with marketing around the world and, uh, explore what opportunities, what consumer needs, And this Thai Union sales into the future. It's not only in the laboratory where innovation is important. So this boat is a demonstration boat. It's something that Thai Union and Nestle have been working on together, along with Safe Deck to demonstrate to the Thai shing industry what good practice can look like when it comes to human rights and safe practices on board. A vessel Thai union began as a family business and family values remain at the heart of the company. Nowhere is that more evident than here at Sunwood m- We had a social order to come out and they observed that there were children all around the streets of Sumit Corn in the middle of the day. So we spoke with our workers and we found out that as they came from me and the children didn't speak Thai, our staff didn't understand how they could access the Thai education system. So the children had nothing to do. So working with the local NGO, the Labor Rights Promotion Network, we've now set up three childcare centers in local schools and have plans for two more before 2020. The schools are more examples of Thai Union's corporate responsibility for the welfare of its workers and their families. Helping Prepared children to enter formal Thai education is particularly poignant for Christ on. F not gave me education for school, learn only Chinese, and until 16 I have thanks for very proud I from nothing. And today we are the, the, the biggest tuna producer in market in my method. Very, very important, very important. All always, I think we are not in the position do this business, but for some something, force me. Force me we take success. I myself, I cannot understand, it's a, to me