Media – THE STRAITS TIMES

Tough early days made siblings stronger. Experience after taking over dad’s firm spurred teos to diversify business.

It was a case of all hands to the pump when the three Teo children joined their father’s small business in the trying days after the Asian financial crisis hit in 1997.

Jobs were hard to come by across the island and firms were cutting back, including at the Teos’ E-Tech Building Services, which carries out maintenance work for residential developments.

They survived, although it was a close-run thing, and have gone on to try their hands at other businesses, but the memories of those tough early days are still strong… Read full article here