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Tony Tan Caktiong. Tony Tan Caktiong, CM ( simplified Chinese: 陈觉中; traditional Chinese: 陳覺中; pinyin: Chén Juézhōng; Pe̍h-ōe-jī: Tân Kak-tiong; born 1953) is a Filipino businessman and investor. He is the founder and chairman of Jollibee Foods Corporation, and the co-chairman of DoubleDragon Properties. Forbes listed him as ...
Tony Tan. Tony Tan Keng Yam DUT GCB ( Chinese: 陈庆炎; pinyin: Chén Qìngyán; born 7 February 1940) is a Singaporean banker and politician who served as the seventh president of Singapore from 2011 to 2017. Prior to entering politics, Tan was a general manager at OCBC Bank.
When he was 22, Caktiong decided to shell out P350,000 in an ice cream parlor franchise. He opened Cubao Ice Cream House and Quiapo Ice Cream House. As their business becomes more and more successful, they started to hire more people to help them manage it. Two years later, he decided to serve hamburgers, fried chicken, and spaghetti as people ...
Tan founded the fast food chain in 1978, after having started it as an ice cream parlor in 1975. Through expansion and acquisitions of Greenwich Pizza Corporation which enabled it to enter the pizza-pasta segment. As of August 2008, Tan"s has a total of 1,480 stores worldwide including, Red Ribbon, Chowking, Greenwich, Manong Pepe"s, Mang ...
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As Dr Tony Tan steps down on Aug 31 after 6 years as Singapore's President, here's a look back at a few lighter, candid moments of his 6 years in office. Cat...
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Mar 7, 2007 · Tony Tan Caktiong was a Filipino Chinese entrepreneur who set up a two-outlet ice cream parlor business in the city of Manila. It was 1975 when he began his business. His father used to operate a kitchen in Fujian,China, which was where Tony's association with the food services business began. Eventhough his ice cream parlor.
