Henry Sy is a Filipino businessman who founded SM, one of the largest retail conglomerates in the Philippines. He was born in China in 1923 and immigrated to the Philippines at age 12, where he helped his father's small grocery store. Sy grew his business over decades, establishing the Shoe Mart store in 1958, then building the first SM Mall in 1985. Today, SM owns over 40 malls in the Philippines and abroad, and Sy has a net worth of over $9 billion, making him the richest person in the Philippines for the past 5 years. Sy's business interests now extend beyond retail to include banking, real estate development, and other industries.
Henry Sy is a Chinese-Filipino businessman who founded SM Investments Corporation and built the SM Group, one of the largest companies in the Philippines. He was born in Fujian, China in 1924 and immigrated to the Philippines at age 12, where he helped his father run a small store and later opened his own shoe store. Through hard work and opportunism, he grew his business into a retail empire with over 40 shopping malls across the country. He has an estimated net worth of $8 billion and is considered the richest man in the Philippines.
Henry Sy is the richest person in the Philippines according to Forbes with a net worth of $9.1 billion. He came to the Philippines from China at age 12 and started his business by opening a small shoe store. His SM Group has grown tremendously and is now the largest retailer and shopping mall developer in the Philippines. Through hard work and business expansion, Sy's net worth has tripled over the past 5 years. He has groomed his children to take over leadership positions in the various SM business affiliates, ensuring the continued success and growth of the SM Group.
Henry Sy is a Filipino businessman who founded SM, one of the largest retail conglomerates in the Philippines. He was born in China in 1923 and immigrated to the Philippines at age 12, where he helped his father's small grocery store. Sy grew his business over decades, establishing the Shoe Mart store in 1958, then building the first SM Mall in 1985. Today, SM owns over 40 malls in the Philippines and has interests in retail, banking, real estate, and other industries, making Sy the richest person in the country for the past 5 years.
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Ferdinand Marcos served as the 10th President of the Philippines from 1965 to 1986. During his presidency, he faced challenges like corruption and smuggling. He reorganized several government agencies and pursued infrastructure projects. However, he eventually declared martial law in 1972 and ruled as a dictator. In 1986, Marcos claimed victory in a presidential election but the results were disputed and massive protests erupted, leading to his ouster. He fled to Hawaii in exile and died in 1989. In 2016, the Supreme Court ruled that Marcos could receive a hero's burial at the Libingan ng mga Bayani cemetery, a controversial decision supported by President Duterte.
Henry Sy is a Chinese-Filipino businessman who founded SM Investments Corporation and built the SM Group, one of the largest companies in the Philippines. He was born in Fujian, China in 1924 and immigrated to the Philippines at age 12, where he helped his father run a small store and later opened his own shoe store. Through hard work and opportunism, he grew his business into a retail empire with over 40 shopping malls across the country. He has an estimated net worth of $8 billion and is considered the richest man in the Philippines.
Henry Sy is the richest person in the Philippines according to Forbes with a net worth of $9.1 billion. He came to the Philippines from China at age 12 and started his business by opening a small shoe store. His SM Group has grown tremendously and is now the largest retailer and shopping mall developer in the Philippines. Through hard work and business expansion, Sy's net worth has tripled over the past 5 years. He has groomed his children to take over leadership positions in the various SM business affiliates, ensuring the continued success and growth of the SM Group.
Henry Sy is a Filipino businessman who founded SM, one of the largest retail conglomerates in the Philippines. He was born in China in 1923 and immigrated to the Philippines at age 12, where he helped his father's small grocery store. Sy grew his business over decades, establishing the Shoe Mart store in 1958, then building the first SM Mall in 1985. Today, SM owns over 40 malls in the Philippines and has interests in retail, banking, real estate, and other industries, making Sy the richest person in the country for the past 5 years.
This document summarizes the economic programs and policies of Philippine presidents from Manuel Roxas to Benigno Aquino III. It outlines the rehabilitation efforts under Roxas after WWII, the import substitution strategy under Quirino to develop local industries, the land reform acts under Magsaysay and Macapagal to assist farmers, and the various socioeconomic programs pursued by subsequent presidents like Ramos, Estrada, Arroyo, and Aquino to promote development, generate revenues, and improve people's welfare. It also provides pointers for reviewing key economic concepts, thinkers, resources, and the history of the Philippine economy.
The document provides an overview of Jollibee Food Corporation (JFC), the largest fast food chain in the Philippines. It discusses how JFC was founded in 1978 and has since expanded to include multiple brands like Greenwich Pizza and Chowking. The document analyzes JFC's success in the Philippines, attributed to its understanding of local tastes, operational efficiency, and customer service. It evaluates JFC's mixed performance overseas and the challenges of transferring its core competencies abroad. Finally, it outlines JFC's expansion plans to continue focusing on the Philippines market, expand in China, and grow selectively in other overseas markets.
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Central Luzon State University
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This document discusses theories of personality and values in organizational behavior. It covers several key models for understanding personality, including the Big Five model and Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI). Values are described as basic convictions that guide behavior. The document outlines how personality and values can be linked to job and organizational fit to increase satisfaction and performance. It also notes some cultural differences in personality frameworks and values dimensions.
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This Chapter would focus on culture and society of these Filipino to familiarize student of history to different cultural and society patterns such as social stratification , marriage customs, slavery, clothing and ornament and even food and dainties of the barangay.
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Prepared by: Anne Mariz Valino
Compilation of Articles: Bonita Montina Jusay
Central Luzon State University
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Subject: History 100
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Henry Sy was a Chinese-Filipino businessman who founded SM Investments Corporation, one of the largest companies in the Philippines. He started his career in the shoe business and opened his first store in 1948. In 1958, he established ShoeMart, which became very successful. He later expanded into other industries such as banking and real estate, developing shopping malls across the Philippines and China. Sy was named the richest man in the Philippines multiple times and had a net worth of $19 billion at the time of his death in 2019 at the age of 94. He was known for his business acumen and philanthropic efforts.
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1. Henry Sy built his business from humble beginnings, starting with a shoe store and growing it into the large SM mall chain across Asia.
2. Tony Tan Caktiong transformed a struggling ice cream parlor into the popular Jollibee fast food franchise with fried chicken and other Filipino favorites.
3. John Gokongwei Jr. overcame financial difficulties and built his business from importing goods to establishing successful companies like Universal Robina Corporation and Cebu Pacific airline.
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Henry Sy Sr. went from poverty in China to become the richest man in the Philippines through his retail business. He followed his father to the Philippines at age 12 and was determined to succeed despite his father's difficult life. Sy started his first store, Shoemart, in Manila in 1958 and expanded successfully by adding appliances and developing the store into a department store chain called SM. By the 1970s, SM had multiple locations across the Philippines and established Sy as the "Father of Philippine Retail".
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2. Profile
• Real Name : Henry Sy, Sr
• Chinese Name:
• Chinese Name:Sy Chi Sieng literally meant "to attain ultimate success"
• Born : December 25, 1923, Xiamen, China
• Residence : Manila, Philippines
• Nationality : Filipino
• Occupation : Chairman of SM Prime Holdings
• Net worth : US$ 9.2 Billion
• Known for : Founder of SM
• Parents : Henry H. Sy & Tan O Sia
• Wife: Felicidad Tan Sy
• Children : 6 children
• Teresita Sy-Coson
• Henry T. Sy Jr.
• Hans T. Sy
• Herbert T. Sy
• Elizabeth T. Sy
• Harley T. Sy
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• Schools Attended : Far Eastern University
• Fortune: Self made
• Source: Malls
3. Small Beginnings
• 1935 – At the age of 11, his father left the family, for a country that was then a US territorial
protectorate. His father was a trader seeking for good opportunities in a place where economic
progress was bright and promising
• 1936 - followed his dad and migrated to the Philippines at the tender age of twelve. It was in the
year 1936 when he left his home village Ang-khue of the Dieng-oh municipality in the county of
Jinjiang, now a city, which lies near Xiamen in Fujian province. His mom told him “ Never look
back”.
• - The two were reunited in a cramped space of only 30 square meters in floor area in a dirty
street in the district of Quiapo, central Manila. He saw his father again in poor health conditions
which moved him a lot. His father was a proprietor of a tiny grocery store on Echague Street, -
now Carlos Palanca Sr. St. - just behind the city's notorious Chinatown.
• HIS MAIN GOAL IN LIFE: The will to strive for excellence and to overcome the harsh
environment of poverty through the discipline of hard work and frugality. He has learned the value
of honesty and patience in the business.
4. The Birth of SM
• 1936 – enrolled as Grade One at the Anglo Saxon school of Quiapo at the age of 12
• World War II - local economy collapsed during the Japanese occupation, businesses closed and
the country's industries were all destroyed after the Battle for Manila
• 1946 – his father flew back to China without second thoughts, the young Henry Sy decided to
stay.
• 1949 - received his first credit line from the China Bank and was lent with one million Philippine
pesos, approved by financial tycoon Mr. Yap Tian Siang.
• 1950- to improve his entrepreneurial skills in the buy and sell trade, he later enrolled at the Far
Eastern University in 1950 and took up a degree in Associate in Arts in Commercial Studies. . He
also considered the change of his legal name into Henry Sy after obtaining Philippine citizenship
• 1958 – first Shoe Mart store was established
• 1972- Shoe Mart store wasn built in Dowtown Manila
• 1985 – first SM Mall was built in North Edsa
5. 6 Children
Teresita Sy- Coson (SMIC) Henry I. Sy Jr. (CEO of SMDC) Hans I. Sy (CEO of SMPH)
Herbert I. Sy (SuperMarket) Elizabeth I. Sy (SVP of SMPH) Harley I. Sy (China Bank)
6. Business Interests
• SM Investments Corporation (SMIC) is the holding company of the SM Group of
Companies. SMIC is engaged in four businesses through its subsidiaries: shopping
mall development and management (SM Prime Holdings, Inc.), retail merchandising
(SM Department Stores, SM Supermarket and SM Hypermarket); financial services
(Banco de Oro Unibank Inc. and China Banking Corporation), and real estate
development and tourism (SM Land, Inc., SM Development
Corporation and Highlands Prime, Inc.).
• SM Prime Holdings, Inc. (PSE: SMPH) or SM Prime is the parent company of the
SM Group’s shopping malls. It is the largest shopping mall and retail operator in the
Philippines. It was incorporated on 6 January 1994 by Filipino-Chinese
entrepreneur Henry Sy to develop, conduct, operate and maintain the SM commercial
shopping centers and all businesses related thereto, such as the lease of commercial
spaces within the compound of shopping centers. It later went public on 5 July 1994
and subsequently grew to become the largest company listed on the Philippine Stock
Exchange in terms of revenue.
7. • Banco De Oro Unibank Inc. (BDO), originally known as Acme Savings Bank, was
acquired by the SM Group in 1976. The SM Group is one of the largest
conglomerates in the Philippines, with substantial interests in financial services, real
estate development, and tourism and entertainment, founded around its core
business in commercial centers and retailing. BDO listed its shares on the Philippine
Stock Exchange (PSE) on May 21, 2002.
• San Miguel Corporation (PSE: SMC and SMCB) is the largest publicly listed
food, beverage and packaging company in the Philippines. As of 2001, its business
generated 3.6 percent of the Philippines’ gross domestic product and 4.5 percent of
the government’s tax revenue. Founded in 1890 as a brewery, San Miguel now
makes nine out of every 10 bottles of beer, 87 percent of the soft drinks, 60 percent
of the processed meat and 40 percent of the poultry sold in the Philippines. The
trade-name San Miguel originates from St. Michael the archangel.
8. • Belle Corporation is a leading Philippine developer of high-end residential and
leisure properties. Its products are located in a recreational area comprising
mountains, rolling hills, and lakeshores about 1-2 hours south of Manila in Tagaytay
City and Batangas province, with spectacular views of Taal Lake and the surrounding
countryside.The Belle Group owns approximately 1,280 hectares of undeveloped
land around existing finished and in-process projects, on which it will develop future
projects over at least the next five years without the need for substantial new land
acquisitions.
• Highlands Prime, Inc. engages in developing leisure properties in the Philippines.
The company’s property assets comprise undeveloped land, subdivision lots, and
finished residential units located in Tagaytay City, Cavite, and Batangas. It sells its
products primarily to members of Tagaytay Highlands International Golf Club, Inc.;
Tagaytay Midlands Golf Club, Inc.; and The Country Club at Tagaytay Highlands
through accredited sales agents and brokers.
9. • China Banking Corporation, together with its subsidiaries, provides commercial
banking products and services to businesses and entrepreneurs, as well as to
individuals in the Philippines. It offers deposit products, loans and trade finance,
domestic and foreign fund transfers, treasury products, trust products, foreign
exchange, corporate finance, and other investment banking services. The company
also offers insurance brokerage, computer services, and asset management
services.
• SM Development Corporation (SMDC) was originally incorporated in 1974 as Ayala
Fund, Inc., a closed-end investment company. In March 1986, it was renamed SM
Fund, Inc. after the SM Group of Companies took majority ownership of the company.
Since then, SM Fund, Inc. remained as an investment company providing investors
with a professionally managed vehicle to invest in diversified businesses in the
country.
10. Now....
• For 5th consecutive year, Henry Sy is the richest man in the Philippines
• Has built 46 malls in the Philippines, and 4 outside the country
• SM is the biggest retail business & BDO as the biggest bank in terms of assets
• Owns SM foundation which provides educational, health & livelihood assistance to
the less fortunate people
11. “There are countless ways to make more money. Only your
willingness to work, your imagination, and time can limit
the ways.” – Henry Sy