 Founded by Yeo Keng Lian (), a native of Fujian, China, who began his business career by making soy sauce in Zhangzhou with the Yeo Hiap Seng Sauce Factory () in 1901.Then he emigrated to Singapore in the 1930s, where he re-established the Yeo Hiap Seng Sauce Factory in 1938.Yeo died in Singapore in 1960.