Diamond Millennium Corporation

While other malls in Cagayan de Oro have already opened or scheduled to open this week, the management of homegrown Limketkai Mall has decided to remain CLOSED until further notice.
🔻 However, essential stores such as supermarket, pharmacies, fast food (take out, delivery), hardware stores and the like are open.
🔻 Again, basic requirements such as face mask, barangay exit pass and valid ID with birth date will still be enforced upon entry.

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Today, we unite our hearts as we pay tribute to our boss, a well-regarded Kagay-anon businessman Engr. Lorenzo U. Limketkai on the 1st anniversary of his death. We will always remember him as a visionary, a good leader who inspire and help others turn visions into reality. Thank you for your legacy sir. –DMCians

The Legacy of Engr. Lorenzo U. Limketkai--

Born on October 19, 1946, Limketkai was the youngest of nine children of Don Lim Ket Kai and Dona Rosario Uy Limketkai. Lorenzo was exposed early to business having worked as a youngster at the family business.

The family patriarch had begun what was to become Limketkai Manufacturing Corporation (LMC), Limketkai Sons, Inc (LKKS), and many other sister companies, in 1927.

A mechanical engineer by profession, Lorenzo wore many hats for the family business. He was at various times managing director of LKKS, CEO, and president of Diamond Millennium Corporation, and general manager of Limketkai Hotel and Resort Corporation, the company that operates the Limketkai Luxe Hotel. He was also credited with establishing LMC’s cooking oil brand ‘Marca Leon.’

In 1991, Lorenzo opened the first Jollibee store outside of Luzon. The opening of the Filipino fast-food icon in Cagayan de Oro coincided with the opening of Limketkai Center, the mall complex in the middle of a mixed-use 40-hectare business district.

Lorenzo also pioneered in ostrich raising in the country. In 1996, he started the Philippine Ostrich and Crocodile Farm in Opol, Misamis Oriental.

Lorenzo was married to Beatriz Ong Limketkai with whom he had two sons, Heintje and Bjorn. He was widowed in 1980 and remarried 19 years later to Mitzi Lim with whom he had three sons–Lorenzo II, Derek, and Jacob.

More than his business acumen, friends and family remember Lorenzo Limketkai as a father who purposefully set aside weekends for family.

Son Derek said his father loved cooking simple dishes for his family and taking trips with them. Derek said on his last trip, his father made sure to gather all of them and arranged every detail of the trip.

His employees saw Lorenzo Limketkai as a “simple man” who loved sharing life lessons.

“He was a generous mentor and coach,” said Dana Estanislao, managing director of Jollibee Limketkai Group.

“He was a believer in people who rose from the ranks and he always told us that we work for our people,” she said.

Estanislao also said that while Lorenzo demanded excellence from those around him, he was also quick to remind people to “live life to the fullest with family.”

“Above all else, Sir Lorenzo valued family,” Estanislao said.

Source: https://newsinfo.inquirer.net/1113740/lorenzo-limketkai-72