 Chiu therefore established TML in December 1995 in anticipation to maintain advertisement revenue.The other TML's keyman was local Sampo Corporation(聲寶企業)'s then chairman Chen Sheng-tian(陳盛沺); his amateur baseball team Sampo Giants had been requesting to join CPBL since 1992, but was repeatedly rejected by CPBL for unexplained reasons.Chen later decided to join force with Chiu and turned Sampo Giants into Taipei Gida, and sponsored this team until the end of 2000 when he realized there was no possibility for TML to profit.