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Tony Tan Caktiong (Chinese: ¬
) is the founder and current

Chairman and CEO of Philippine fast food chain Jollibee. He attended
high school at Chiang Kai Shek College and graduated from
the University of Santo Tomas with a degree in chemical engineering.
Caktiong had initially planned an ice cream parlor when he founded
Jollibee, then added dishes such as hamburgers, french fries,
and fried chicken.
Caktiong, on July 8, 2008 was elected board director of Philippine
Long Distance Telephone Co. (PLDT)'s 11-member board replacing
Ma. Lourdes Rausa-Chan. He is also an independent director of First
Gen Corp.[1] Also, Caktiong top billed the World Intellectual Property
Organization (WIPO) video documentaries.[2] The WIPO webcast page
featured personalities chosen from the 184 member states.[3]
Caktiong founded the fast food chain Jollibee in 1978, after having
started it as an ice cream parlor in 1975.[5] Jollibee became a
household name in the Philippines even though it went head to head
against fast food giant McDonald's.[6] Through expansion and
acquisitions of Greenwich Pizza [5] Corp. in 1994 enabling it to
penetrate the pizza-pasta segment. From a 50-branch
operation, Greenwich has established a strong presence in the food
service industry. In early 2006, Jollibee Foods Corp. bought out the
remaining shares of its partners in Greenwich Pizza Corp
George S.K. Ty is a Chinese-Filipino tycoon and the founder of the
universal bank, Metropolitan and Trust Company
or Metrobank (PSE: MBT). He is the Chairman of the Metrobank
Group, Metrobank Foundation, Toyota Motor Philippine Corporation
and the former Chariman of Toyota Autoparts Philippine Corporation.
In 2010, Forbes ranked him as the ninth richest Filipino with a
networth of USD805 million.

In 1962, when Ty was just 29 years old he founded Metrobank with

business partners, Don Emilio Abello, Don Pio Pedrosa and Placido
Mapa, Sr. The bank went public in 1981. He had been the Chairman of
the Board from 1975 to 2006 until Antonio Abacan, Jr. succeeded him.
He is now the Chairman of the Metrobank Group since 2006.
In 1988, Mitsui Corporation partnered with Ty¶s Metrobank to put up
Toyota Motor Philippine Corporation with the former having 51-
percent stake and the only Toyota subsidiary to be locally-owned. He
has been the Chairman of the Board since 1988. He also served as the
Chairman of the Totyota Autoparts Philippine Corporation from 1990
to 2005.
Socorro C. Ramos is the matriarch of National Bookstore, the
Philippines' leading retailer of books, office supplies, and greeting
cards. In 1965, she and her husband Jose set up a nine-story building
along Avenida Rizal which would be the very first National Bookstore.
What has become the Ramos family business has not stopped
growing since, having opened Powerbooks, a now popular specialty
bookstore, in 1996.

In 1940, Socorro Ramos, barely 18, started working as a salesgirl at

a Goodwill Bookstore branch owned by her brother in Escolta, Manila.
Because of her selling skills, Ramos was put in charge of the store.
It was only after marrying Jose Ramos that her dream of the setting
up a bookstore finally materialized. The couple started the
first National Book Store as a stall shop in Escolta selling supplies, GI
novels, and textbooks. Unable to afford extra help, Ramos worked not
only as manager but also as cashier, purchaser, saleslady, janitor,
and helper. When war broke out, strict censorship regulations forced
many retailers in Manila, including the Ramos couple, to shift trades.
They moved to selling soap, candies, and slippers instead.
Henry Sy, Sr. (Chinese: 
; pinyin: Shī ZhìChéng; born December
25, 1924) is a Chinese Filipino businessman and the founder and
chairman of SM Prime Holdings, the largest retailer and shopping mall
operator in the Philippines. He earned his Associate of Arts degree in
Commercial Studies at Far Eastern University in 1950. Acknowledged
as the country¶s "Retail King," he has come a long way from the
modest shoe store he set up in Quiapo in 1946, to become Asia's
biggest shopping mall operator with over 30 malls throughout the
Philippines. He is the Philippines' richest man, gaining 1.4 billion
dollars in 2007, amid the global financial crisis. The huge gain was
due to his holding company, SM Investments Corp., which has
interests in Banco de Oro Universal Bank, inter alia. Forbes
magazine's 2008 list of 40 wealthiest Filipinos, revealed the Sy
family's net worth was 3.1 billion dollars. Earlier, he was the 2nd
wealthiest individual in the Philippines, next to Lucio Tan and (as of
2008) 843rd in the world. Sy is considered a Tai-Pan or tycoon of Asia.
The Sy group is the operator of Banco de Oro Universal Bank and
owner of China Banking Corporation. In 2006, he bought the
remaining 66% of Equitable PCI Bank, the Philippines 3rd largest
lender, in which he already had a 34% stake, and merged it with
Banco de Oro Universal Bank in 2007. The merger created the
Philippines's second largest financial institution with resources of
close to $17billion dollars.
Lucio Tan (simplified Chinese: ± ß; traditional
Chinese: ¬ß; pinyin: ¯
 ) (born July 17, 1934) is a
prominent Chinese Filipino business magnate and is one of the most
prominent business magnates in the Philippines. He, as of 2010, is
currently the second richest businessman in the country, holding a
networth of $2.1 billion.[1]

Tan owns Asia Brewery, the second largest brewery in the

Philippines, Tanduay Holdings, one of the world's largest rum makers,
Fortune Tobacco, the largest tobacco company in the country,
Philippine Airlines the Philippines' flag carrier - these companies are
just some of the 300 companies that Tan controls. Tan was born on
July 17, 1934, in Amoy, Fujian, Republic of China. His parents moved
to the Philippines when he was a child. He studied chemical
engineering at Far Eastern University in Manila and later obtained his
Bachelor of Science degree in the said program from the University of
Santo Tomas.[2] He actually quit before graduating to take a job in a
tobacco factory. Though a non-smoker, he started a cigarette
company called Fortune Tobacco in 1966. This humble venture, which
was housed in a small hut in Marikina, proved to be the enterprise
that would catapult Mr. Tan to success. From this flagship company
emerged numerous successful ventures in agribusiness; airlines and
related services; banking, finance and securities; brewery; chemicals;
distillery and alcohol; education; food; hotel; manufacturing; property
development; steel fabrication and construction; and tourism and
travel services.

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