Ken Lee (businessman)
Australian businessman
Ken Lee (Chinese: 李光裕; pinyin: Lǐ Guāngyù, 1 May 1932 – 21 December 2007) was a Chinese Australian businessman who co-founded the Bing Lee chain of electronic stores with his father, Bing Lee. He also served as the company's chairman from 1987 until 2007.
Early life
Ken Lee was born in Yantai, Shandong, a poor rural area in China. In 1938, when Ken Lee was just seven, his father Bing left Yantai, putting him in charge of the family while he sailed to Australia seeking his fortune. When the Japanese invaded China there was widespread famine, and Ken was selling second-hand clothes and other goods on the streets to help feed his mother and sister. Once the war was over it took them three years to make their way to Sydney in 1948 and reunite with Bing.
Ken and his father, Bing Lee, opened their first Bing Lee store in Fairfield, New South Wales in 1957 as an electrical sales and repair store. Lee's first job at Bing Lee was as a repairman and salesman. He and his father built the Bing Lee chain from its first store into a multimillion-dollar retail business.
Bing Lee died in 1987, leaving his son, Ken Lee as sole owner and Ken remained Chairman of the Bing Lee company.
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