FOUNDER

Mariano Que, the founder of Mercury Drug Foundation, was born in 1921. He was an
orphaned and unprivileged to experience better education. Before the Japanese
occupation, he was once a worker at a local drug store in Manila. His job led him being
exposed to those medicines which is truly advantageous for him later on. Mariano knew
which medicine is best and worst and which medicine were popular that time. After
World War II, people started their life in a scratch, including Mariano. The
expensiveness and scarcity of medicine that time led him to have an opportunity to shed
light on those people around him. He purchased a tablet of sulfathiazole for only 100
pesos from a peddler, which was considered that time as “wonder drug” for its ability to
cure several diseases. He sells those sulfathiazole per pieces as its low price, to make it
more affordable. Later on, he saved money and bought a wooden pushcart to sell
several medicines. On March 1, 1945, he build his first Mercury Drug Store in Bambang
St., Manila in which still the leading drug store nationwide.

MERCURY DRUG STORE CORPORATION

It is truly remarkable to start from a scratch, from selling through pushcart to finally build
his own drug store. However, his first ever achievement will just be a start for his true
journey as a businessman. In 1948- 1999s, it manage to improve their facilities and
services for the convenience if their customers.
 Customer service delivery (1948) to Gamot Padala Order Online (1998)
 Operating seven (7) days a week in seventeen (17) hours a day (1952) to Gising
24 Oras (1965)
 Introduces exclusive coupon calendar to be organized and to save money by
discounts coupons (1998)
Improvements and quality service for its customers are still seen.
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