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<\/p>\nAsk any Filipino what will come to their mind when they hear the words \u201cSan Miguel\u201d and two things will pop up: a world-class beer brand\u2026 and the recently crowned PBA Philippine Cup champions the San Miguel Beermen.<\/p>\n
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LOGO GRABBED FROM Wikipedia<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n What most people don\u2019t know, however, is that the words San Miguel can be associated with so much more, what with being one of the largest and most diverse conglomerates in the country and all.<\/p>\n Southeast Asia\u2019s first<\/strong><\/p>\n San Miguel Corporation (SMC) started out in 1890 as La Fabrica de Cerveza de San Miguel,<\/em> Southeast Asia\u2019s first brewery. They produced what would eventually become one of the best selling beers in the region: San Miguel Beer.<\/p>\n 1914 saw San Miguel Beer making its way from Manila to Shanghai, Hong Kong, and Guam. It even made waves into Hong Kong, establishing a brewery in the Crown colony in 1948; the first local brewer to do so.<\/p>\n San Miguel Beer continues to be SMC\u2019s flagship as well as its best-selling product, being one of the largest-selling and top beer brands in the world.<\/p>\n Branching out<\/strong><\/p>\n Through the years, SMC has dabbled into other industries, soon producing a portfolio that includes the following:<\/p>\n The heads<\/strong><\/p>\n SMC is led by its chairman and CEO, Eduardo \u201cDanding\u201d Cojuangco, Jr., the cousin of the late President Corazon Aquino. Its more visible head, however, is their Vice Chairman, President, and COO Ramon Ang<\/a>, the country\u2019s 16th<\/sup> richest man.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n\n
![Wikipedia<\/a><\/em><\/p>\nWhat most people don\u2019t know, however, is that the words San Miguel can be associated with so much more, what with being one of the largest and most diverse conglomerates in the country and all.<\/p>\nSoutheast Asia\u2019s first<\/strong><\/p>\nSan Miguel Corporation (SMC) started out in 1890 as La Fabrica de Cerveza de San Miguel,<\/em> Southeast Asia\u2019s first brewery. They produced what would eventually become one of the best selling beers in the region: San Miguel Beer.<\/p>\n1914 saw San Miguel Beer making its way from Manila to Shanghai, Hong Kong, and Guam. It even made waves into Hong Kong, establishing a brewery in the Crown colony in 1948; the first local brewer to do so.<\/p>\nSan Miguel Beer continues to be SMC\u2019s flagship as well as its best-selling product, being one of the largest-selling and top beer brands in the world.<\/p>\nBranching out<\/strong><\/p>\nThrough the years, SMC has dabbled into other industries, soon producing a portfolio that includes the following:<\/p>\n\nBeer<\/a> (San Miguel Brewery, Inc.)<\/li>\nHard liquor (Ginebra San Miguel Inc.)<\/li>\nFood<\/a> (San Miguel Purefoods Company, Inc.)<\/li>\nPackaging<\/a> (San Miguel Yamamura Packaging Corp.)<\/li>\nReal estate<\/a> (San Miguel Properties Inc.)<\/li>\nOil refining and marketing (Petron<\/a>)<\/li>\nPower and energy<\/a> (SMC Global Power currently runs the Sual, Ilijan, and San Roque power plants, with more to come)<\/li>\nInfrastructure (TPLEX, SLEX, Skyway, STAR, NAIAX, Caticlan Airport in Boracay, MRT7, Manila North Harbor Port Inc., Bulacan Bulk Water Supply Project)<\/li>\nTelecommunications (almost), and banking<\/li>\n<\/ul>\nThe heads<\/strong><\/p>\nSMC is led by its chairman and CEO, Eduardo \u201cDanding\u201d Cojuangco, Jr., the cousin of the late President Corazon Aquino. Its more visible head, however, is their Vice Chairman, President, and COO Ramon Ang<\/a>, the country\u2019s 16th<\/sup> richest man.<\/p>\n <\/p>\nSource: San Miguel Corporation<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The words San Miguel can be associated with so much more, what with being one of the largest and most diverse conglomerates in the country.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":1988,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[271],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1987","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-success-story"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/business\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1987","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/business\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/business\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/business\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/business\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1987"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/business\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1987\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1990,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/business\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1987\/revisions\/1990"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/business\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1988"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/business\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1987"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/business\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1987"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/business\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1987"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}](\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/File:San_Miguel_Corporation_logo.svg\"){kind=link}