The co-founder of Burgreens and Green Rebel shares why she had to pivot her restaurant business into frozen food and her experience with going viral on social media for the wrong reasons.
BNP Paribas held its NextGen Experience in Singapore for the first time in 2023, with talks and experiences focused on entrepreneurship, sustainability, impact creation and legacy planning.
The winners, who hailed from Singapore, Malaysia and the Philippines, are leading organisations in furthering plastic waste reduction and the protection of marine life.
Six years ago, Singapore partygoers responded with a mix of emotions when news broke that Genting Hong Kong a subsidiary of Malaysian conglomerate Genting Group had acquired the country’s most iconic nightclub, Zouk, for an undisclosed amount. Many longtime Zouk fans were sceptical of whether it was the right move for the club, which has become an institution for several generations of Singaporeans since it opened in 1991.
While Zouk’s future seemed uncertain to clubbers, it was never clearer to the Genting team. For Lim Keong Hui, the son of Genting Group chairman Lim Kok Thay, and Zouk’s then-newly minted CEO Andrew Li, the future was in expansion, both in terms of the lifestyle concepts that Zouk could offer as well as its presence worldwide.