Lucio Cochanco, Jr. is the President of Fly Ace Corporation, marketer of Jolly canned vegetables, canned fruits, Doña Elena Mediterranean products (olive oil, olives & capers, pasta & pesto sauces, canned tomatoes, anchovy, bottles sardines & canned tuna) , Good Life oriental products (sotanghon, egg noodle, bihon, bread crumbs, sesame oil, oyster sauce) and other food products, many of which […]
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Mr. Lester Yu is Founder and CEO of Fruitas Holdings Inc, composed of 18 food and beverage brands in more than 800 locations with over 2,000 employees nationwide. His company won as National Finalist for Employment and Regional Finalist for Innovation category in the 2017 ASEAN Business Awards. In the same year, Yu also won as the Ernst and Young […]
Q1: Your family was in the department store business in Avenida before you entered the fishing vessel business, what made you venture into this kind of business and in south Zamboanga? A: It was during those visits to my then girlfriend now my wife’s house in Navotas that I was able to look at their deep sea fishing business. They […]
In 1977, William Belo founded a small hardware store called Wilcon Builder’s Supply. 26 years after, he expanded to the much bigger one-stop shop Wilcon Depot in 2003. Today, Wilcon is market leader in home improvement retailing and is a Hall of Fame awardee of the Philippine Retailers Association. He shares insights of his entrepreneurial journey, culminating in Wilcon’s planned […]
Q1: What was the inspiration behind your beauty distribution company? A: Being an avid shopper myself, I have always had this interest with the retail industry whether which side of the fence I am in. The “accidental discovery” of K-Palette’s eyebrow liner came at a time when my husband and I were thinking of having our own business. I stumbled […]
Q1: What made you decide to be an entrepreneur? A: I’ve been working for 25 years. I started as an engineer and rose to VP operations. I saw how I was able to make my previous employers financially successful because of my technical, selling and managerial and administrative skills and experience. I was not getting any younger and I just […]