Filinvest

Filinvest Development Corporation
Trade name	PSE: FDC
Industry	Real estate; Hospitality; Finance; Agriculture; Power;
Founded	1955; 69 years ago
Founders	Andrew Gotianun Sr.; Mercedes Gotianun;
Headquarters	6th Floor, The Beaufort, 5th Ave corner 23rd St., Bonifacio Global City, Taguig, Metro Manila, Philippines
Key people	Jonathan Gotianun (chairman); Lourdes Josephine Gotianun-Yap (president and CEO); Nelson Bona (CFO and compliance officer);
Subsidiaries	East West Banking Corporation; EastWest Rural Bank, Inc.; FDC Utilities, Inc.; Chroma Hospitality, Inc.; Filinvest Alabang, Inc.; Filinvest Land, Inc.; ALG Holdings, Inc.; Filinvest Asia Corporation; Davao Sugar Central Corporation; Pacific Sugar Holdings; Cyberzone Properties, Inc.; The Palms Country Club; Festival Supermall, Inc.; EastWest Ageas Life Insurance Corporation; EastWest Insurance Brokerage, Inc.; EastWest Leasing and Finance Corporation; LIPAD Corporation
Website	filinvest.com ; (corporate arm); filinvestland.com; (real estate arm); filinvestgroup.com; (holding group arm);

Filinvest Development Corporation (PSE: FDC) is the publicly listed holding company for the various firms in the Filinvest group. It was established in 1955 in the Philippines by Andrew L. Gotianun Sr. and his wife, Mercedes Gotianun, as a used-car financing company.^[1] It has holdings in real estate development and leasing, the sales of housing units, and hotel and resort management, banking and financial services, sugar and power.^[2]^[3] It is based in Metro Manila, Philippines, and is owned by the Gotianun family.^[4]

Filinvest Development Corporation is involved in the hotel and tourism industry, and owns the hotel brands Crimson and Quest, the latter of which is a new value-brand hotel. In September 2014, it was reported that it planned on opening 5,000 hotel rooms within five years. At that time, company officials stated that it had over 1,000 hotel rooms. During this time it was also reported that the company was building seven hotels, two of which will be under the new Quest value brand.^[5]

In 1996, the company owned approximately 4,000 acres "of prime real estate around Manila", along with land in Cebu and Fort Bonifacio.^[6]

^ Suryadinata, L.; Studies, Institute of Southeast Asian; (Singapore), Chinese Heritage Center (2012). Southeast Asian Personalities of Chinese Descent: Glossary and index. Southeast Asian Personalities of Chinese Descent: A Biographical Dictionary. Institute of Southeast Asian Studies. p. 9. ISBN 978-981-4414-13-5.
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[1] Suryadinata, L.; Studies, Institute of Southeast Asian; (Singapore), Chinese Heritage Center (2012). Southeast Asian Personalities of Chinese Descent: Glossary and index. Southeast Asian Personalities of Chinese Descent: A Biographical Dictionary. Institute of Southeast Asian Studies. p. 9. ISBN 978-981-4414-13-5.

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[Cragg-6] Cragg, Claudia (1996). The New Taipans: A Vital Source Book on the People and Business of the Pacific Rim. Arrow business books. Arrow Books. p. 116. ISBN 978-0-09-968591-3.

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