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Article: ROMMEL T. JUAN, ENTREPRENEUR: STARTING SMALL AND FINISHING BIG
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- The Manila Times
- Article date:
- April 29, 2007
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"I was born into it" was how the president of Binalot Fiesta Foods, Inc. summed up his career path.
A third-generation member of a family of entrepreneurs, Rommel Juan followed the tradition started by his grandfather, MD Juan.
Patriarch Juan trained as a dentist but chose to start his own business of assembling and selling car parts and chassis under the name MD Juan Enterprises, Inc.
Rommel's parents continued the entrepreneural tradition by opening a school, the Sacred Heart Academy in Malabon.
Thus, Rommel was exposed to business that young as he was then, he acted as an "agent" selling stickers for his siblings. "My brother and sister were more enterprising than me; I was more ...