[citation needed] In 1991, he left the Kuok Group to start Wilmar, with Chinese Indonesian businessman Martua Sitorus soon after coming on board as a co-founder.
[citation needed] In May 2020, Kuok and his company, Wilmar International, donated SG$7 million to The Straits Times School Pocket Money Fund, as part of Singapore's COVID-19 community relief efforts.
[citation needed] His father, Kuok Hock Swee, had arrived in then British Malaya from Fuzhou in Southern China at the age of 18.
He eventually set up a provision store in Mersing, which he expanded into a thriving business distributing foodstuffs along the east coast of Peninsula Malaysia.
[9] His second son, Kuok Meng Ru, was an amateur singer/songwriter before co-founding the popular social music creation platform BandLab Technologies.