Joined 1988
History Purefoods Hotdogs
1988-1991
Purefoods Tender Juicy Hotdogs
1992-1993
1994-1996
1998-2005
Coney Island Ice Cream Stars
Purefoods Oodles
1993-1994
Purefoods Corned Beef Cowboys
1996-1997
Purefoods Carne Norte Cowboys
1997-1998
Purefoods Chunkee Giants
2005-2007
Purefoods Tender Juicy Giants
2007-2010
B-Meg Derby Ace Llamados
2010-present
Team colors Red, Black, Yellow, and White
Owner(s) Eduardo Cojuangco, Jr.
Company San Miguel-Purefoods Company, Inc.
Head coach Jorge Gallent
Championships 8 (1990 Third Conference, 1991 All-Filipino Cup, 1993 All-Filipino Cup, 1994 Commissioner's Cup, 1997 All-Filipino Cup, 2002 Governor's Cup, 2006 Philippine Cup, 2009-10 Philippine Cup
The B-Meg Derby Ace Llamados is a professional basketball team of the Philippine Basketball Association owned by the San Miguel-Purefoods Company, Inc., a company of the San Miguel Corporation. Its head coach is Jorge Gallent. [1]
The Purefoods Corporation, once part of the Ayala Group of Companies, bought the Tanduay franchise prior to the 1988 PBA season.
Purefoods-Hormel Corporation was later bought by SMC in 2001 with the team retaining their colors. The team had used the product Purefoods Tender Juicy Hotdogs for much of their history, deviating with the Coney Island Ice Cream Stars during the All-Filipino conferences of the 1993 and 1994 seasons, Purefoods Oodles (a type of instant noodles) in 1993, and their various monikers to match their corned beef brand such as the Corned Beef Cowboys, Carne Norte Beefies from 1997 to 1998, and as the Purefoods Chunkee Giants from 2005 to 2007. From 2007 to 2010, the team was known as the Purefoods Tender Juicy Giants. It is considered as one of the two most popular teams in the PBA. [2]
Arguably, the most popular Purefoods player is Alvin Patrimonio, who led the franchise to six championships in the 1990s and early 2000s, and was named Most Valuable Player four times. Patrimonio retired in 2004 to concentrate more on his duties as team manager for his team.
Their main rivals are the Alaska Aces and their sister team Barangay Ginebra Kings.
