4 Filipino Entrepreneur

Lolita Hizon (Pampanga's Best)

With over 39 years of making the best tocino and other meat products in the country, Pampanga's Best continues to be the country's top household brands. Lolita's tocino empire started as a cottage industry in Pampanga which soon became a 9.5-hectare processing plant and is now considered one of the country's finest businesses.

Cecilio Pedro (Hapee Toothpaste)

Being the first Filipino to make a world-class toothpaste brand and because of his unselfish support to the community, Cecilio Pedro is now considered one of the country's best entrepreneurs. His business ingenuity has given the country a fresh alternative to what was originally purely multinational.

Manny Villar (C&P Homes)

His is the classic story of a poor Tondo-boy-turned-millionaire through hard work and perseverance. With just P10,000 as capital and an unimaginable amount of willpower, he started a small trucking business which later blossomed into a large-scale real property asset.

Alfredo Yao (Zest-O)

Every FIlipino child has enjoyed the thirst-quenching effects of a juice drink in tetra pack that this businessman introduced in 1980. Being interested in the packaging business, he realized the potential of doy packs in the juice industry, one thing other juice companies failed to see. Zest-O Corporation is now exporting products around the world.