Career
Jacinto Ng, Sr. is a second generation Chinese-Filipino businessman that founded the Rebisco Group of Companies. He founded the New England Biscuit in 1963 form a tiny rented second-hand factory. He then moved the company to a new compound in Novaliches Quezon City. By 1972, he had renamed New England Biscuit as Republic Biscuit Corporation or simply Rebisco. Seeing the gap in crackers, Ng introduced the first cracker with filling Rebisco Cracker Sandwhich, which became the flagship brand of the company.
The success of Rebisco led him to establish other companies. In 1989, in order to dominate the nuts and seeds market, Ng incorporated the JBC Foods Corporation. Seeing the potential in the cake snacks industry, he found the Suncrest Food Corporation in 1995, Multirich Corporation in 1999, and Pinnacle Foods in 2000. The last as aN entry to the chips and curls market. In 2003, he acquired 60% of the Storck Products, Inc., the company licensed to locally produce Storck, a eucalyptus menthol candy, by the Storck Durchbeisserand Riesen Schoko.