verification . please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources . unsourced material may be challenged and removed . september 2014 learn how and when to remove this template message uniwide sales inc. type shopping malls industry shopping malls founded january 1975 avenida rizal manila headquarters para aque and las pi as number of locations 2 area served philippines key people jimmy gow founder chairman and ceo owner uniwide holdings inc. website http www.uni wide.com archived from the internet archive uniwide sales inc. was a retail operator in metro manila the philippines . it was incorporated in january 1975 by chinese filipino entrepreneur jimmy gow to operate uniwide commercial shopping centers such as the lease of commercial spaces within the compound of their malls and department stores . uniwide had about 2 000 employees . the competing retailers of the 1970s and the 1980s were cod department store ever gotesco malls plaza fair and isetann but lagged behind sm supermalls robinsons malls and ayala malls . it had two branches and was set to be close down by the order of securities and exchange commission . history edit the roots of uniwide date back to january 1975 1 when it established in avenida rizal as uniwide sales textile bargain house center . with the success the gow family expanded to ready to wear apparel accessories and then became a complete department store and supermarket chain . the company introduced the mass oriented warehouse club concept in the country in 1988 . it opened a warehouse clubs in prime locations in the country in the next two years which also started the company s woes . some of its assets in prime location such as its unfinished building in cubao quezon city were already bought by puregold price club inc. of the co family . another unfinished building in mandaue city cebu at that time was supposedly as a warehouse club which was occupied by the informal settlers and today the site was subsequently occupied and converted into a shopping centre named parkmall . the warehouse in marcos highway was already demolished and the lot sold to gokongwei led robinsons land corporation s commercial centers division to pave the way for robinsons metro east and in libis quezon city to pave way for wilcon depot . its remaining warehouse club is in the reclamation area in roxas boulevard in uniwide coastal mall in para aque metromall in las pi as tarlac city malolos in bulacan caloocan novaliches in quezon city and sucat in para aque these said branches were later became super 8 grocery warehouse in 2006 when these warehouse clubs were sold its stake . from 1992 to 1999 in partnership with rpn 9 they have a quiz show called battle of the brains . in 1998 it entered into corporate rehabilitation during the asian financial crisis . at that time the company s retail business has a network of eight warehouse clubs and two department stores . liquidity problems however affected earnings . sales declined from its peak of p14 .5 billion in 1997 to just about p4 .3 billion in 2000 . many times they attempted to clear baguio city market in baguio city to build a mall but due to the opposition from the vendors stall owners and associations kept the project on hold . references edit brief history of uniwide v t e philippine shopping mall brands major sm supermalls robinsons malls ayala malls minor ever gotesco malls isetann regional gaisano malls mindanao gaisano grand visayas and mindanao gaisano capital mindoro visayas and mindanao city supermarket pangasinan kcc malls soccsksargen citymall nationwide starmalls luzon and visayas vista malls metro manila megaworld lifestyle malls defunct uniwide sales retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title uniwide sales & oldid 740363757 categories companies established in 1975department stores of the philippinescompanies based in para aquehidden categories articles needing additional references from september 2014all articles needing additional references navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate to wikipediawikipedia store interaction helpabout wikipediacommunity portalrecent changescontact page tools what links hererelated changesupload filespecial pagespermanent linkpage informationwikidata itemcite this page print export create a bookdownload as pdfprintable version languages add links this page was last modified on 20 september 2016 at 16 05 . text is available under the creative commons attribution sharealike license ; additional terms may apply . by using this site you agree to the terms of use and privacy policy . wikipedia is a registered trademark of the wikimedia foundation inc. a non profit organization . privacy policy about wikipedia disclaimers contact wikipedia developers cookie statement mobile view