History
Khon Kaen was founded as Kwang Soon Lee in 1945 in Bangkok and in 1952 moved to a plant in Thonburi, producing 250 bags of sugar a day. The company spent the next decades merging with and acquiring companies and in 1974 organized itself and its companies as KSL Group. It listed at the Stock Exchange of Thailand in 2005, and is on the SET50 Index, and is currently the only sugar company at the SET.
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