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His paternal grandparents were Chinese Filipino. [5] He obtained a bachelor's degree in Business Administration from the University of Southern California in 1983. [3] After completing his studies in the United States, he returned to the Philippines and joined the family owned Alaska Milk Corporation (AMC). He became president of AMC in 1998 ...
The following is a list of notable Chinese Filipinos (Filipinos of Chinese descent). [1] [2] López family of Iloilo, is a wealthy and influential Filipino family of business magnates, media proprietors, politicians, and philanthropists descended from Filipino-Chinese merchant Basílio López (c. 1800–c. 1875). Tommy Abuel (born 1942), actor ...
A handful of these entrepreneurs run large companies and are respected as some of the most prominent business tycoons in the Philippines. Chinese Filipinos attribute their success in business to frugality and hard work, Confucian values and their traditional Chinese customs and traditions.
The family's retail business began during the 1970s, when a shop-restaurant was established by Doña Modesta Singson-Gaisano with husband, Don Jose Sy Gaisano, located at the ground floor in a rented house in Colon, Cebu. The establishment later became known as White Gold Super Store.
He was orphaned during the Japanese occupation of the Philippines. [4] After the war ended in 1945, Que bought ₱100-worth of Sulfathiazole pills. He sold these drugs in single doses and using his savings decided to buy an assortment of medicine which he later peddled through a pushcart.
Alfonso A. Uy building, Central Philippine University Alfonso A. Uy (Chinese: 黄祯谭) is a Filipino-Chinese businessman that holds numerous businesses in Iloilo.He is the former and first President of the Federation of Filipino Chinese Chambers of Commerce & Industry who came from the Visayas and Mindanao.
CHInoyTV (Traditional Chinese: 菲華電視台, Simplified Chinese: 菲华电视台, Pinyin: Fēi huá diànshìtái, Hokkien: Hui hôa tiān sī tai, Cantonese: Fēi wàh dihn sih tòih), is a weekly program that focuses on news, events and culture associated with the national Chinese Filipino community.
Carlos Palanca Sr. (1869–1950), also known as Tan Guin Lay / Tan Guing-lay (Chinese: 陳迎來; Pe̍h-ōe-jī: Tân Gêng-lâi) or Tan Quin Lay, was a Chinese Filipino businessman and philanthropist in the Philippines during the late Spanish colonial era, American colonial era, and early post-independence period.