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Poppy Bermúdez

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José Armando Bermúdez Pippa (1928 – 3 December 2014), known as Poppy Bermúdez, was an Argentine-born Dominican businessman and the third CEO of J. Armando Bermúdez & Co., C. por A. after José Armando and Domingo Octavio Bermúdez.[1]

Biography

Born in Buenos Aires, he was the son of the Dominican businessman Aquiles Bermúdez Ramos (1901-1970) — the son of José Armando Bermúdez Rochet and Ana Luisa Ramos de Peña — and Pastora Luisa Pippa, an Italian Argentine woman. He was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina, but a few months after he was born, his family moved to Santiago de los Caballeros, Dominican Republic, where he lived the rest of his life.[2]

In 1968, Bermúdez founded Color Visión the first color television channel in the Dominican Republic and the third in Latin America.[3]

Death

Poppy Bermúdez died on 3 December 2014 in Santiago de los Caballeros.

Notes

  1. ^ Espinal, Edwin (29 August 2009). "Los apellidos del ron: Bermúdez". Cápsulas Genealógicas (in Spanish). Hoy. Instituto Dominicano de Genealogía. Archived from the original on 4 December 2014. Retrieved 4 December 2014.
  2. ^ Toribio, Kilvin (3 December 2014). "Biografía de José Armando Bermúdez" (in Spanish). Santiago de los Caballeros: El Sol de Santiago. Archived from the original on 4 December 2014. Retrieved 4 December 2014.
  3. ^ "Causa pesar muerte de Poppy Bermúdez" (in Spanish). Santiago: El Caribe. 4 December 2014. Retrieved 8 December 2014.