San Miguel Corporation is the largest publicly listed food, beverage and packaging company in the Philippines. As of 2001, its business generated 3.6 percent of the Philippines’ gross domestic product and 4.5 percent of the government’s tax revenue. San Miguel is also one of Southeast Asia’s leading food, beverage, and packaging companies, and “the dominant player on the domestic market.” It has pursued overseas marketsfor exapnsion and to “reignite growth” within the group. The company had over 100 major manufacturing facilities in the Philippines, China, Hong Kong, Indonesia, Vietnam, and Australia and exported its products to more than 40 countries outside the Philippines, the “San Miguel name is rarely attributed to anything other than its global brand, San Miguel Beer.”