AN EMPIRE BUILT ON DRIED MANGOES

✅Justin Uy, the Cebuano who conquered the world with sweet dried mangoes, and the business conglomerate he built around it.

✅Profood International (flagship company) products, is now being exported to more than 50 countries worldwide.

✅From mangoes, it ventured to retail development by opening JCentre Mall in 2011.                  J Centre Mall (CTTO)

✅An opportunity in tourism was too lucrative to resist when Imperial Palace Resort in Mactan was offered for sale. Renamed as JPark Island Resort and Waterpark, it is now one of the popular tourist destinations in Cebu.                 Jpark Resort Mactan

✅The company also owns Toyoko Inn, Mandaue, the first Philippine branch of the famous Japanese hotel chain (in partnership with Toyoko Inn Co. Ltd)


✅ Recently it opened the P8 billion JPark Island Resort Panglao, dubbed as the biggest waterpark resort in the country, a bold and ambitious move anchored in Bohol’s tourism potentials.

Jpark Panglao Resort

✅In 2019, its real estate company, Everjust Realty, launched the 40-storey J Tower Residences, beckoning the company’s entry into the condominium industry.                J Tower Residences

This is a great Cebuano success story in the making. So what’s out for more of Justin Uy and his future business endeavors.



Suggested readings:

https://www.sunstar.com.ph/article/1773833

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.philstar.com/the-freeman/cebu-business/2019/06/07/1924367/top-100-cebuano-personalitiesjustin-sy-uy/amp/