The pre-war Cebu Chamber of Commerce

Before World War II the Cebu Chamber of Commerce now renamed as the Cebu Chamber of Commerce and Industry were already in existence, it was created by Cebuano and American businessmen based in Cebu.

In 1937 these were its officials and members:

M.E. Brink as its President, Manuel Go Tianuy, Vice President (he is the father of Atty. Augusto Go, a street is named after him in front of the Redemptorist Church ending at the Gen. Arcadio Maxilom Avenue), W.R. Gibberson, Treasurer, I.V. Binamira, Secretary, Guy Walford, Director, A. Duran, Director, Go Siong Mit, Director, Leo Schmitt, Director, Leo Schmitt, Director, C.M. Ocampo, Director and Y. Noya, Director.

Its regular members, among others:

Aboitz & Company, F.C. Arrey, Asiatic Petroleum Co. Ltd, Jose Avila (grandfather of The Freeman and Philippine Star Columnist, MyTV Host, Valeriano "Bobit" Avila, he was secretary to Governors of Cebu, starting with Don Sergio Suico Osmeña, a street in Capitol Site is named after him), Bogo Medellin Milling Company, Bank of the Philippine Islands, Behn, Meyer & Company, Botica Boie, C.K. Bradbury, Espiritu Bunagan, Cebu Autobus Company, Cebu Ice & Cold Stores Co., Cebu Stevedoring Co. Inc., Cebu Portland Cement Co., Cebu Sugar Company, Cebu Terminal Company, Cebu Transit Co. Inc., Chartered Bank of India, Australia & China, M.E. Cleland Sr., Compania General de Tabacos de Filipinas, Daido Boeki Kaisha Ltd., DR. N.T. Deen, Dy Buncio & Co., Dy Te & Company, Erlanger & Galinger, Eureka & O.R. SQuilantini, Go Chan & Co. Inc., Go Occo & Company, V.R. Gonzales, Gotiaoco Hermanos, Inc., Paulino Gullas (Founder-Publisher of The Freeman, established in 1919, making it Cebu's oldest newspaper in existence), Heacock's Alkans, Inc., Hijos de Escano, Inc., International Harvester Co. of the Philippine Islands, Jereza Construction Co., C.D. Johnston, Joaquin Castro & Co., Ker & Company, Kuenzle & Streiff, Inc., Kwong Yuen Lung Co., G.R.P. Laing, R.R. Landon (an American Soldier and Engineer, he founded Cebu's first electric provider, now named as the Visayan Electric Company, a street ending at the President Sergio Osmeña Boulevard is named after him).

Lim Bonfing Hermanos Inc., Lim Tian Teng Co. Inc, R.M. Miller, Madrigal & Co., Manila Trading & Supply Co., A.R. Mansueto, Mindanao Lumber Co., Mitsui Russan Kaisha, Ltd., D.G. McVean, La Naviera Filipina, Inc., Nestle-Anglo Swiss Condensed Milk Co., Oquinena & Company, Pacific Commercial Co., Pastrano, Unchuan Co., Philippine Engineering Corporation, Philippine Manufacturing Co., Philippine National Bank, Philippine Railway Company, Philippine Long Distance Telephone Co., Photo Materials & Paper Co., Vicente Pelaez, Procter & Gamble Trading Co., The Robert Dollar Co., Shamrock Hotel & Bar, Smith Bell & Co. Ltd., Valeriano Segura, Standard-Vacuum Oil Corporation, States Steamship Co., Texas Oil Company, The Elite, Tomas Liao Lamco & Co., Buenaventura Veloso, Visayan Electric Company, Visayan Surety & Insurance Corp., H.R. Walker, W.F. Stevenson & Co., Warner, Barnes & Co., Yap Anton Bros., Yutivo Sons Hardware Co. and F.E. Zuellig Inc.

There is a book that is a repository of Cebu City's history. It is the Golden Book of Cebu 1937. It would be of great help that the City Government or any organization or individual would sponsor its mass reproduction so it could be distributed in all public and private schools in elementary and high school.

Today, the Cebu Chamber of Commerce is headed by a Lady President by the name of Melanie Ng, the Chief Financial Officer of the Ng Khai Development Corporation (she is the second lady president, the first is Ma. Teresa Chan).