PEDRO
PANGELINAN MARTINEZ
(1892 - 1967)
Founder and President of Pedro’s, which at its peak, comprised an ice
plant, a cold storage, a mini-supermarket, a wholesale and retail business,
a construction company, an automobile agency and two large farms providing
beef and vegetables to the island. Among the many firsts Don Pedro Martinez
established include the first manufacturing industry in Guam with the establishment
of Pedro’s Ice Plant in 1921; established the Chrysler Automobile Agency
in 1922 - selling Chrysler, Dodge, Desoto and Plymouth cars; and formed Pedro’s
Construction Company in 1926 which built the Pan American Hotel - the first
hotel on Guam.
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