Former Speaker Jose de Venecia has called Henry Sy a Filipino-Chinese visionary and a bonafide Asian titan, who built Philippine-wide enterprises, pushed economic dispersal throughout our islands with his network of SM stores, and contributed to decentralization and the emergence of a Filipino middle class.
In a statement yesterday, De Venecia said “the soft-spoken Henry Sy is one of our economic heroes and a pride of the Filipino people.”
“Before he passed away, his network had established branches in some cities in China and was moving into other Asian locations.
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