Propelling the auto LPG business

May 26th, 2008 · No Comments

Propelling the auto LPG business.
A FEW people know that one of the men behind the First Auto-LPG Gas Holdings is an Ateneo de Davao University (AdDU) alumnus.

Cebu-born Hector C. Almario, president of the Visayan Island Auto Gas Refuellers Association (Viagra), spent three years of his high school at AdDU from 1972-75.

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Hoping to pursue medical school, ‘King’ as he is fondly called, went to UP Diliman in college where he earned a BS in Psychology degree.

‘After college, I left for the US because there was no opportunity here,’ King said.

He came back after several years and ventured into several businesses — managed a restobar up in the mountains of Cebu and went into trading.

In 1992, he opened the first MCDonalds store in Cebu after graduating from the Hamburger University in Chicago, USA.