Zobel de Ayala family
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The Zobel de Ayala family is an influential Filipino family originating from northern Spain’s mountainous region of Álava descending from the lineage of Juan Larrazabal Ayala (circa 1475), an influential landowner. Patriarch Antonio de Ayala sailed for Manila in the 1800s and established an industrial partnership with Domingo Roxas, a descendant of Mexican immigrant Antonio Fernández de Roxas of Acapulco, who settled in the Philippines in 1695, and later with Dr. Johannes Andreas Zobel, a German pharmacist from Hamburg who settled in Manila in 1832.
The Zobel de Ayalas own and control Ayala Corporation, a conglomerate that includes the Bank of the Philippine Islands, Ayala Land, Manila Water Company, and Globe Telecom, one of the largest mobile phone networks in the Philippines. Ayala Corporation was also responsible for developing large areas of Makati City into residential subdivisions (gated communities) between the 1940s and 1960s. These subdivisions include Forbes Park, Dasmariñas Village, Bel-Air Village, San Lorenzo Village, Urdaneta Village and Magallanes Village. In addition, Ayala Corporation developed the center of Makati into a mixed-use development now known as Ayala Center and its surrounding throughfares (Ayala Avenue, Makati Avenue, Paseo de Roxas & Sen. Gil Puyat Ave,) which now comprises the Makati skyline.
The De La Salle-Santiago Zobel School is named for Jacobo Santiago Zobel (1954-1965), the eldest son of Enrique Zobel.
The Zobel de Ayalas are among the three Filipino individuals/families listed in Forbes magazine's list of the world's richest people in 2006.[1]
[edit] Prominent members
- Fernando Zóbel de Ayala y Montojo (1924–1984)
- Enrique Zobel (1927–2004)
- Jaime Zobel de Ayala (born 1934)
- Jaime Augusto Zobel de Ayala II (born 1959)
- Fernando Zobel de Ayala (born 1960)
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