Location: Benpres Building, Ortigas, Pasig City
Category: Personages
Type: Biographical marker
Status: Level II – Historical marker
Marker date: 1989
Installed by: National Historical Institute (NHI)
Marker text:
EUGENIO LÓPEZ
1901-1975
ISA SA MGA PIONEERING ENTREPRENEURS, MAKABAYAN, LIDER SIBIKO, PILANTROPO. IPINANGANAK NOONG HULYO 20, 1901 SA JARO, ILOILO. NAG-ARAL SA ATENEO; BATSILYER SA BATAS, U.P.; NAGSAGAWA NG IBAYONG PAG-AARAL SA BATAS, HARVARD, MULING ITINATAG ANG EL TIEMPO AT ILOILO TIMES UPANG LABANAN ANG KATIWALIAN. ITINATAG, BUKOD SA IBA PA, ANG ILOILO SHIPPING PANAY AUTOBUS, ILOILO NEGROS AIR EXPRESS, FAR EAST AIR TRANSPORT, PHILIPPINE PORTLAND CEMENT, CHRONICLE BROADCASTING NETWORK, BENPRES CORPORATION, EUGENIO LOPEZ FOUNDATION AT LOPEZ MUSEUM. NATAMO ANG MANILA CHRONICLE, ALTO BROADCASTING SYSTEM, BINALBAGAN-ISABELA SUGAR COMPANY, PAMPANGA SUGAR MILLS, PHILIPPINE TELEPHONE AND TELEGRAPH COMPANY, AT ANG MANILA ELECTRIC COMPANY NA KANYANG NATAMO BUHAT SA MGA AMERIKANO SA PAMAMAGITAN NG MERALCO SECURITIES CORPORATION NA KANYANG ITINATAG, NGAYO’Y FIRST PHILIPPINE HOLDINGS CORPORATION. TUMANGGAP NG MGA GAWAD NA ‘BUSINESSMAN OF THE YEAR AWARD’; OUTSTANDING AND DISTINGUISHED ALUMNUS AT DOCTOR OF LAWS, HONORIS CAUSA, U.P.; PRESIDENTIAL AWARD MERIT FOR ECONOMIC LEADERASHIP; DISTINGUISHED SERVICE AWARD, HARVARD. NAMATAY NOONG HULYO 6, 1975, SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA.
