TIMELINE: A business 125 years in the making

MANILA, Philippines –In casting its net beyond its traditional core businesses  and reinventing itself as a powerhouse corporation, San Miguel has carved for itself a unique role in the Philippine business landscape.

San Miguel Corporation is one of the Philippines’ largest and most diversified conglomerates, generating an estimated 6% of the country’s gross national product through its highly integrated operations in beverages, food, packaging, oil refining and marketing, power, mining, infrastructure, aviation and telecommunications.

One of the nation’s largest employers with a direct workforce of 18,000 employees, for each job created within the San Miguel system, nearly 145,000 jobs are created through suppliers, distributors, retailers and other business partners.

Since 2008, San Miguel has worked at transforming itself into a more diversified, efficient and responsive company, whose capabilities and accomplishments clearly lead the industries in which it now compete.

The steadfast loyalty of the Filipinos to what has been a part of their lives, as well as generations before them, has helped San Miguel Corporation stay strong and relevant for almost 125 years.