26/04/2021
"The story of Ayala started 187 years ago in a two-story wooden building along Echague Street in Quiapo, Manila as Casa Roxas, a business house that built a distillery to derive greater value from cane sugar.
Since then, the story of the country’s oldest conglomerate has had many twists and turns, a narrative that shares in the nation’s past and the global economic downturns the country faced.
Today, yet another chapter unfolds in Ayala’s saga as its long time CEO Jaime Augusto Zobel de Ayala or JAZA passes on the baton to his younger brother Fernando after 26 year of being at the helm."
The story of Ayala started 187 years ago in a two-story wooden building along Echague Street in Quiapo, Manila as Casa Roxas, a business house that built a distillery to derive greater value from cane sugar.