Teodoro Ferrer was 60 when he retired. He has worked hard most of his life in one the country\u2019s biggest conglomerates, made an impact in the companies he handled, and earned enough money to live a life of leisure as a retired man. But with the hectic corporate life that he\u2019s lived, he opted to swap spending lazy days at the beach for starting a drugstore chain of his own.<\/p>\n
\u201cAfter retirement, I was thinking of venturing into small scale real-estate projects, to take advantage of the knowledge I had gotten after working at Ayala Corp. for 30 years, but an idea was unexpectedly presented to me about selling generic medicines,\u201d recalled Mr. Ferrer, Founder and President of Generika Drugstore<\/strong><\/a>. With no prior knowledge of the pharmaceutical industry or retail business at all, the fire and drive to give back to society by providing quality affordable medicines to Filipinos was enough for him to push the idea to reality.<\/p>\n Together with his then business partner, French businessman Julien Bello, and the vision of helping to address the sad plight of millions of Filipinos who continued to buy expensive branded medicines they could not afford, they formed Erikagen Inc., the company that created Generika Drugstore<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/neo-blog.kalibrr.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/Sir-JB-Sir-Ted.jpg\")
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