Tai Wah started as a partnership in 1956 with offices in Singapore, Malaysia and Hongkong. Major brands marketed and distributed previously by Tai Wah includes Wella, Ella Bache, Sothys, Nemectron, Takara and 4711. In 1985, Tai Wah entered into joint ventures with Wella AG in a manufacturing plant in Malaysia and distribution companies in Singapore, Malaysia and Hongkong. Tai Wah has since divested all its interests in these joint ventures. Over the years, Tai Wah has developed an extensive professional (hair and beauty salon) distribution network in South East Asia and China. It currently markets and distributes these brands – Kadus, Depileve/Anesi, Payot, Wahl. Tai Wah entered the Chinese market in the late 1990s and today has interests in manufacturing facilities in China – manufacturing hair equipment like hairdryers, hair irons, and machines for hair and beauty salons. It has developed its own range of hair and beauty equipment, machine and accessories under the Tuft trademark. At the same time it also markets and sell the OEM services of these factories in China. Tai Wah today has taken a more global view of its business interests and currently services a wide customer base from all over the world in the sale of the products from its manufacturing facilities in China. In addition it is promoting and marketing its own brand of hair and beauty equipment and machines under the Tuft label. Tai Wah also provides sourcing services to foreign companies interested in selling product to or buying products from China. Foreign companies requiring such services will find Tai Wah’s ability to render effective and reliable communication services and its reputation for honesty and ethical practices together with its fully operational office/showroom in China attractive and suitable to the needs.