The companies displayed strength going into the pandemic.
Twenty Philippines-based companies have been cited in the 2021 ranking of Asia’s fastest-growing companies. The list was researched and compiled by the business news platform The Financial Times along with regional business news platform Nikkei Asia and market and consumer data firm Statista.
On October 29, 1962, Edmundo F. Unson, Sr. together with other businessmen founded The Mercantile Insurance Co., Inc. The early years of Mercantile were spent in the bustling district of Escolta, Manila, and five (5) years later, transferred to Juan Luna, Binondo. In 1975 it built and found its current home in the historic Walled City of Intramuros.
