TOP EXPORTER IN THE PHILIPPINES

SAN MIGUEL
CORPORATION
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How did the company start?

1890- San Miguel Corporation (SMC) started

as a single brewery in the Philippines under
La Fabrica de Cerveza de San Miguel. Since
then, the company has evolved from a
beverage, food, and packaging company to a
diversified conglomerate with operations in
the fuel and oil, energy, infrastructure, and
real estate sectors.
THROUGH ITS HIGHLY INTEGRATED
BUSINESSES IN FOOD AND DRINKS,
PACKAGING, FUEL AND OIL, POWER,
AND INFRASTRUCTURE, SAN MIGUEL
CORPORATION (SMC) IS ONE OF THE
PHILIPPINES' LARGEST AND MOST
DIVERSE CONGLOMERATES, WITH
REVENUES ACCOUNTING FOR NEARLY
5.9% OF THE COUNTRY'S GDP IN 2018.
 San Miguel Corporation owns San Miguel Food and
Beverage, Inc., the Philippines’ leading food and
beverage company, with popular brands in the food,

Types of beer and spirits categories that are top-of-mind of

consumers and maintain market-leading positions in

products and their respective categories.

services they San Miguel operates six breweries outside the

exported? Philippines. The company also has licensing agreements

in Nepal (with Gorkha Brewery for the San Miguel brand)
as well as the UK and Ireland (with Shepherd Neame for
the Sunlik brand). Meanwhile, it continues to make
inroads in Cambodia through a distribution agreement.
San Miguel is also exported to over 40 countries
worldwide, having Taiwan, Malaysia, Lorea, Singapore,
Japan, US, UAE and Sudan as some of its major export
markets.
 San Miguel Purefoods (Purefoods Hormel, Magnolia, San
Miguel Gold Label, San Mig Super Coffee) exports to
North America, Asia, Oceania, Middle East, and Europe.
Types of
products and They also are the majority owner of Petron Corporation,
the market leader in the fuels and oils industry in the
services they
Philippines, and a strong player in the Malaysian
exported?
downstream oil market.

San Miguel Yamamura Packaging, a subsidiary company

from San Miguel Corporation, offers glass bottles and
jars, plastic crates and pallets, metal cans, crowns, caps,
plastic bags, pouches, boards, and cartons, trays,
partitions, and pads.
TYPE OF OWNERSHIP

San Miguel
Corporation is the
Philippines' largest
corporation in revenue,
with over 24,000
employees in over 100
major facilities
throughout the Asia-
Pacific region.
 How has the company changed
over time?

1890 1895 1913 1922

Don Enrique Ma Barretto San Miguel's beer The Company was San Miguel
de Ycaza created La received its first incorporated in expanded into
Fabrica de Cerveza de San major award at the
1913, and at that
Miguel, the first brewery in
Philippines Regional nonalcoholic
Southeast Asia. He named time, it was
Exposition in 1895. It beverages to
the Company after the exporting its brew
had surpassed its
Manila neighborhood
to Hong Kong, create the Royal
where he lived and foreign competitors
by a five-to-one Shanghai, and Soft Drinks
worked.
margin. Guam Plant.
 How has the company changed
over time?

1925 1927 1948 1970

San Miguel joined San Miguel The Company In the late 1970s,
the frozen foods established the changed and San Miguel faced its
country's first Coca- shortened its name first serious
market in 1925 by
Cola bottling and to San Miguel
creating the challenge in the
distribution franchise,
Corporation. beer market. Asia
Magnolia Ice Cream with the Philippine
Plant. Brewery was the first
Company owning
70% of the joint to join the market at
venture, that time.
 How has the company changed
over time?

1980 1985 - 1989 1993 1994

San Miguel The rivalry between San Miguel cut its The company's revenues
Asia Brewery and San workforce by more than increased fivefold from
proceeded to P12.23 billion in 1986 to
Miguel came to an end 16 percent, from 39,138
diversify its food in 1988, when Asia in 1989 to 32,832 in 1993,
P68.43 billion in 1994. Net

industry. income grew twice as

Brewery successfully as part of this
quickly, from P1.11 billion to
established a low-cost multidimensional
P11.86 billion, in the same
"brand" known simply endeavor to achieve
time period.
as "Beer." maximum efficiency.
How has the company changed
over time?

1995 2021
San Miguel San Miguel Beer, the company's
operated plants signature product, is now one of the
in Hong Kong, best-selling beers in the world and is
among the top ten. While the
China, Indonesia,
company's roots are in brewing beer, it
Vietnam, Taiwan,
has now expanded into the food and
and Guam.
packaging industries.
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history.

San Miguel Corporation - Company Profile, Information, Business Description,

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Miguel-Corporation.html.

San Miguel Pure Foods Export | San Miguel Foods. (n.d.). San Miguel
Corporation. Retrieved July 11, 2021, from
https://www.sanmiguelfoods.com/page/san-miguel-purefoods-export

Our Company | San Miguel Brewing International. (n.d.). San Miguel

Corporation. Retrieved July 11, 2021, from
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