Mariano Que (14 August 1921 – 14 April 2017) was a Chinese Filipino businessman and the founder of the pharmacy chain Mercury Drug.
Background
Born in 1921,[2] Que worked as an employee at Farmacia Central, a major pharmacy owned by Jose Tee Han Kee along Calle Rosario (now Quintin Paredes Street) in Manila, prior to the onset of World War II.[3] He was orphaned during the Japanese occupation of the Philippines.[4]
After the war ended in 1945, Que bought ₱100 1945 worth of Sulfathiazole pills. He sold these drugs in single doses and, using his savings, bought an assortment of medicine which he peddled through a pushcart.[5][6]