1. Want Want Group-owned businesses
- Media: The China Times, CTi News
- Snacks including rice crackers
The boycott against Want Want Group and all its subsidiary businesses began in 2012, when chairman Tsai Eng-meng said in an interview with the Washington Post that the Tiananmen protests on June 4, 1989 in Beijing did not end in a massacre and "not that many people died".
He added that he looked forward to the reunification of Taiwan with mainland China.
Former Tiananmen student activist leader Wang Dan posted on Facebook about the interview, calling for the public to boycott Mr Tsai's businesses.
His call was echoed by some Taiwanese democracy activists and publishers, and supported by many Taiwanese who vowed not to buy the popular Want Want senbei rice crackers, which were once also a staple in offerings for local deities.