President
Lee Rie-Ho was born in 1935 in Nantou Town, raised in a family by tea farmer who has been producing tea for generations. At very young age, Lee was associated with tea. In 1953, Lee's family decided to sell the tea farm and Lee followed his father to Kang Shan and opened Ming-Fung tea shop (the predecessor to Ten Ren). Lee started selling tea at the age of 16 with the help of a bicycle and a barrel strapped to the back seat. With that bicycle, he peddled and sold tea to everywhere in Southern Taiwan.
In 1961, Lee commenced the first Ten Ren tea shop in Tainan City. In the past 40 years, with the influence of economic growth in Taiwan, Ten Ren Tea Co., Ltd. not only expanded its subsidiaries overseas, nevertheless was also the first to establish Ten Fu Tea in mainland China. At present, there are more then 1060 Ten Fu retail tea shops in China; President Lee has successfully established Ten Fu as the premier Chinese tea brand.