José Armando Bermúdez Pippa (12 November 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.

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 Italian Argentine woman. 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.

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Career

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

Poppy Bermúdez

Death

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

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1928 births

2014 deaths

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

Argentine emigrants to the Dominican Republic

White Dominicans

20th-century Dominican Republic businesspeople