BJ Mercantile Inc. (BJM) celebrated its 50th year of doing business with a big celebration entitled The Making of a Gold that traced the company’s journey from 1974 as an importer of used engines to its transformation into a diversified conglomerate with interests in automotive, transport, logistics, property, petroleum and power generation.
Enterprising young couple Jimmy and Belen Lim, who used their initials to name the company, saw an opportunity to start a small business of importing used vehicles and trucks amidst the backdrop of economic strife and political turmoil of the 1970’s . Their instincts proved to be right as not long after they were able to expand their business to the importation and sales of new and used construction and industrial machineries.
