Win Win Tint

She also founded the Pahtama Group, the leading and fastest growing distributor for consumer products in Myanmar for many multinational companies, including P&G, Cerebos, Abbott Laboratories, Nestlé, and Kellogg’s. She served as the President of Myanmar Retailer Association. She was nominated as a Young Global Leader by World Economic Forum in 2013 and was also a runner-up for the Women Entrepreneur Award of the 2014 ASEAN Business Awards. She was listed in Forbes Magazine’s Asia’s 50 Power Businesswomen in March 2014, it is the first time that a Burmese businesswoman is included in the list. Win Win Tint included in a top 10 of Burmese women in the Irrawaddy Magazine’s December issue on ‘Movers and Shakers’ in 2014.

Win was born in 1975 at Yangon. Her family opened its first grocery store in 1996 in Yangon and then three months later asked her to run it; she was just 21. She has been at the helm of the company since 1997, shortly after she returned to Myanmar from Singapore and she has since built the single-store operation into one of Myanmar’s leading retail chains. Her companies also promote corporate social responsibility outside of the foundation, including through blood-donation drives, art exhibitions, and programs to encourage support for athletes. Now, the company boasts more than 150 outlets, including 27 City Mart supermarkets, 13 huge Ocean Supercenters and 70 City Express convenience stores, 45 City Care pharmacy, beauty products shops, 45 Seasons Bakeries and three branches of City Baby Club.