For the many who marvel at business magnate Antonio L. Cabangon Chua’s diverse business empire—one that runs the gamut of insurances, banking, hotels, memorial parks, car dealerships, restaurants, publishing and media—it will be both interesting and equally remarkable to know that his very humble beginnings also saw the man in multiple menial jobs.
He was a shoeshine boy, an ice-drop peddler, a newsboy, a pan de sal vendor and a sari-sari storekeeper in his youth before becoming chairman emeritus and founder of one of the country’s most solid homegrown financial companies.