An exemplary life is what Bienvenido R. Tantoco Sr. and members of his family celebrate today as he marks his 100th birthday.
As the patriarch and founder of the Rustan Group of Companies, he together with his late wife Gliceria is rightly credited with creating the luxury retail industry in this country, a legacy he has passed on to two succeeding generations of the Tantoco clan. Under his visionary leadership, Rustan’s grew from a single department store to the multifaceted conglomerate it is today.
Like few other captains of industry, however, his has also been a life of reflection on the deeper meaning and purpose of life—a side of his nature that blossomed in h…
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