
In 2018, there were 10 products being sold under the Tiger Balm brand, in over 100 countries. As a result, Rangoon Chemical Works made changes in the branding of its product. In 2013, a lawsuit filed by Haw Par against the Indian company Rangoon Chemical Works, asserting that the latter's "Flying Tiger" balm with similar branding infringed on the Tiger Balm trademark, reached the Supreme Court of India. Boon Haw also established newspapers in China and Singapore his daughter said that he spent so much money on advertising that "he thought it would be cheaper to just open a few newspapers". The Aw family founded the Tiger Balm Gardens in Hong Kong in 1935, Singapore in 1937 and Fujian Province in 1946 to promote the product. They set up a branch first at Amoy Street then moved to Cecil Street and finally to 89 Neil Road between 19, at the junction of Neil and Craig Road. The brothers moved to Singapore in the 1920s due to problems with the colonial British government. Tiger Balm sold well in Burma, and was exported to China, Japan, and Southeast Asia. By the 1920s, the brothers had turned Eng Aun Tong into a very successful business empire that produced and marketed pharmaceutical products, including the Tiger Balm medicinal ointment. By 1918, the Aw family had become one of the wealthiest families in Rangoon. In 1918, the product was renamed "Tiger Balm" in order to gain broader appeal. On his deathbed in 1908, he asked his sons Aw Boon Haw and Aw Boon Par to perfect the product.


Eventually, Aw Chu Kin himself set up a family business named Eng Aun Tong ("Hall of Everlasting Peace"). His father had sent him to Rangoon in the 1860s to help in his uncle's herbal shop. 'Ten Thousand Golden Oil') was developed in the 1870s in Rangoon, Burma, during the British colonial era by the practising Chinese herbalist Aw Chu Kin, son of Aw Leng Fan, a Chinese Hakka herbalist in Zhongchuan, Fujian Province, China. A precursor to Tiger Balm called Ban Kin Yu ( Chinese: 萬金油 lit.
