The Man Behind Successful Companies

A janitor way back late 1950's and now owns a 300 companies and providing jobs for almost 50,000 filipino's. Now he owns
fortune Tobacco Company , Asia Brewery , Hog rasing farm which produces 50 metric tons of hogs DAILY, Philippines airlines
Philippine National Bank, Allied Bank, and most financially stable universities here in the Philippines the University
of the east. These are few examples of what he owns. So i think it's very obvious who is the man behind of these biggest companies
in the country. Simply It's Lucio Tan. Tan was born on July 17, 1934 in Fujian, China. His family migrated to the Philippines when he
was barely four years old and first settled in Naga in the province of Bicol. He studied Chemical Engineering at the Far Eastern University.
He was first employed as a janitor at a cigarette company then was assigned to buy leaf tobacco in Ilocos. Perhaps, it was this experience
that gave him the knowledge and confidence to put up his own cigarette company, the Fortune Tobacco Company in 1966.From there he also
established beverage company The Asia Brewery giving jobs to the unemployed filipinos. Realizing that education is the only way to escape poverty,
Tan also heavily invested in education. He bought the University of the East in 1990 and he considers this his biggest feat in promoting education in the country.
In 1993, the country's national flag carrier, Philippine Airlines joins the list of companies that Lucio Tan controls and manages.

In 1995, he founded yet another company in the aviation industry. The Macro Asia Corporation was envisioned to be the leading provider of aviation and logistics services.
This vision has become a reality as Macro Asia Corporation is now the provider of technical ground handling, engineering and maintenance services, and catering services to majority
of the international airlines.In 2000, Tan has become the majority stockholder of Philippine National Bank. The merger of PNB and Allied Bank is expected to be completed before the end of this year.
Although he considers himself a Filipino, Tan credits the deep influence of classical Chinese wisdom for his success in the fierce business world in and outside of the Philippines.
He also has a strong faith in the tenets of Confucianism. Hobbies and interests include flying helicopters and reading books.
To date, Lucio Tan's Group of Companies provides jobs to 50,000 people. To these employees, Lucio Tan is simply Kapitan. A nickname that is very much appropriate to him
as he was able to navigate his vast businesses through rough seas and tough times.Tan also giving donations to help in building public schools here in the philippines even some
construction of some public roads. As the owner of the asia brewery he donated 24 million bottles of drinking water to ease Taiwan's water shortage.As of 2008 forbes
magazine said about $1.5 billion is the income of Tan.

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