José Armando Bermúdez Pippa (12 November 1928 – 3 December 2014), known as Poppy Bermúdez, was an

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-born Dominican businessman and the third

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of J. Armando Bermúdez & Co., C. por A. after José Armando and Domingo Octavio Bermúdez.

Early life

Born in Buenos Aires in 1928, 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

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woman. A few months after he was born, his family moved to

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, Dominican Republic, where he lived the rest of his life.

Career

In 1968, Bermúdez founded '' Color Visión'' the first

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in the Dominican Republic and the third in

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Death

Poppy Bermúdez died on 3 December 2014 in

Notes

{{DEFAULTSORT:Bermudez Pippa, Jose Armando 1928 births 2014 deaths Argentine emigrants to the Dominican Republic Argentine people of Italian descent Dominican Republic people of Argentine descent Dominican Republic people of French descent Dominican Republic people of Italian descent Dominican Republic people of Venezuelan descent Dominican Republic people of Walloon descent White Dominicans 20th-century Dominican Republic businesspeople