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JCI Manila President Richard Lim on creating a prosperous family business, his father’s best lessons, and a socio-civic-minded approach to sustainable growth.

Richard Lim Jr. learned business the way his father did: from the ground up

“My family’s mother company is Artemis Salt, we’ve been at it for 40 years,” says the Business Management graduate from Ateneo, “our clients include NutriAsia, Silver Swan, San Miguel…lahat ng may alat, basically (anything salty).” Richard, along with his brothers Ralph, Redmond, and Rex, watched their father expand Artemis from Mindoro to Leyte, Bohol, Romblon, and Camiguin, all the way to Luzon and learning first hand, what it was like to grow from virtually nothing. Indeed, for someone like Richard, who has been in his family’s business as an executive all his life— business is personal.

“He (our father) really exposed us to the business early on,” says Richard, “there was no real delineation between work and family. We talked about buying and selling and running companies over meals.”

“My father is also a very self-made man,” Richard says of his dad’s early life as a port worker, “he instilled in us values of better opportunities through hard work.” He elaborates that growing up from a lowkey position

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