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The company became a real family business and grew into a chain of bookstores with branches throughout the country. In the 1990s, the chain had about 50 branches. Twenty years later, there were 145. The National Book Store became the largest bookstore chain in the Philippines and one of the largest companies in the Philippine retail industry. [3]
The history of National Book Store can be traced back to the 1930s. [1] However, the company has been formally established in 1942. Before the Japanese occupation of the Philippines during World War II, José Ramos and Socorro Cáncio-Ramos, rented a small-corner space of a Haberdashery situated at the foot of Escolta Bridge in Santa Cruz, Manila.
The company was founded by Corazon Dayro Ong along with her husband Jose Ong on June 25, 1975 [1] as small business in her residence in Valenzuela. The business was initially known as CDO Food Products with "CDO" derived from the initials of the founder. Their house was transformed into a home factory. [2]
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To augment her family's income as her husband struggled to establish his legal practice, Cruz-Reyes set up in 1928 a small carinderia at Calle de Marques de Comillas in Ermita, Manila. [2] She named her eatery Lapu-Lapu (after the Mactan chieftain who defeated Ferdinand Magellan in battle), adopted a native motif as interior decor, and served ...
An entrepreneur is an owner or manager of a business enterprise who makes money through risk and initiative. [1] This list includes notable entrepreneurs. This is a dynamic list and may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness.
In 2021, GOBankingRates featured "Small Business Spotlight" nominee A Separate Reality Records, a record store in Cleveland started by music industry vet and cancer survivor Augustus Payne. At the...
Among the possible inspirations of publishing Tagalog romance paperback novels were the Mills & Boon and Harlequin Romance love story pocketbooks. [4] The actual idea of publishing Tagalog romance paperbacks in the Philippines was conceptualized by Benjie Ocampo, the proprietor of Books for Pleasure, Inc., the company that carried the English-language Mills & Boon pocketbooks line in the country.