SINGAPORE — When presidential hopeful George Goh was a teenager, he wondered if his family would always remain poor.
Mr Goh said in a statement that he would contest as an independent candidate with “no political baggage”, having had “no political party affiliations — past or present”.
Their house had no running water or electric lights then, and they relied on just one oil lamp at night. When asked why they had chosen to name their shoe manufacturing company De’classici, Mr Goh told The Straits Times that his business partner said they “should have something from France and something from Italy” and that was how it came to be.The shoe manufacturing business marked the first of many other ventures that Mr Goh undertook.
In 1996, the company – which was registered as Ossia International by then – was listed on the Singapore Exchange.
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