Business
In 1946, Delgado founded ACD, Inc., and in 1949 he established Delgado Brothers, Inc. and transformed it into the largest fully integrated transportation company in the Philippines. He founded eight other companies:
- Caltex Floating Station (CFS)
- Delgado Stevedoring (DelSteve)
- Delgado Overland Corporation (DelLand)
- Delgado Brokerage Corporation (DelBroCO)
- Delgado Air Cargo (DelAir)
- Delgado Shipyard Corporation (DelYard)
- United Services Corporation (DelTrade)
- Wood-Mosaic (Phil), Inc.
- Delgado Brothers Hotel Corporation, (DBHC) which owned the Manila Hilton (the first 5-star hotel in the Philippines and the tallest building in the country during the late Sixties into the Seventies)
In the 1950s and 1960s, Delgado became director of:
- Private Development Corporation of the Philippines (PDCP), (Because of the incorporation of PDCP, ACD had to delay his trip to Marathon Greece on July 28, 1963, thereby avoiding the ill-fated trip that took the life of his son Toton and 23 other Filipino Boy Scouts)
- Manila Electric Company (Meralco)
- First United Bank
- Philippine Radio Educational and Information Center (Radio Veritas)
In the 1960s, Delgado was elected to:
- Philippine Chamber of Industries - President
- Industrial Finance Committee - Chairman
- Chamber of Commerce - Member
- Management Association of the Philippines - President
- Philippine Council of Management - Board Governor
- American Management Association - Member
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