It’s marketing plan season once again and it is good to remind marketers that contrary to popular belief, when consumers make a buying choice, they do not decide based on marketing mix alone (product, place, promo, price) but on many other factors i.e., cultural (culture, sub-culture, social class), social (reference groups, roles and status, family), personal (age and life cycle […]

Dentsu Aegis Network is made up of ten global network brands in 145 countries – Carat, Dentsu, dentsu X, iProspect, Isobar, mcgarrybowen, Merkle, MKTG, Posterscope and Vizeum. Dentsu Aegis Network is Innovating the Way Brands Are Built for its clients through its best-in-class expertise and capabilities in media, digital and creative communications services. Dentsu Aegis Network Country CEO Donald Lim […]

Vicky Abad brings with her 27 years of marketing and research experience in the arena of creating innovative products and solutions as well as helping build great brands. She is now Chief Client Officer for the Insights group of Kantar Philippines where she leads collaboration across Kantar operating brands to bring the best of the group to clients. Q1: In […]

While finishing the book ‘The Rainmakers: Marketing and Strategy Lessons From 25 Top CEOs’ (a certified bestseller: No. 1 Marketing Book for July 2017), I was able to spend time reflecting on what skills would be needed by these business leaders and their Chief Marketing Officers (CMO) in order to be effective game changers. These 25 CEOs were innovative, in […]

Market Driving Strategy embraces innovative changes in the industry logic and business system to grow a firm’s profit and industry’s demand from underserved and unserved markets. One of the eight ways to grow innovative concepts from underserved market is called ‘fusion’. In a fusion, advantage is created when two related products or segments are combined into a single concept, forming […]

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Rizal Commercial Banking Corporation (RCBC) was in the news in 2016 because of the Bangladesh heist, negatively affecting its reputation amidst innovative and differentiated banking services that have won them numerous awards. Its stock prices have since went up by over 50% (as of end July 2017) versus year ago. In an exclusive interview, RCBC chairperson Helen Yuchengco-Dee shares about […]

Global Foodsolutions, Inc. (GFSI) is engaged in manufacturing and processing of various quality food products such as Nata de Coco, Tropical Fruit Preserves, Frozen Fruits and Vegetables, Smoked and Dried Fish as well as Sauteed Shrimp Paste and Salted Shrimp Fry and which is currently distributed in over 35 countries.. It also manufactures and distributes its DANI’s Frozen Desserts in […]

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Singapore – Waters Philippines has been bestowed the Customer Satisfaction Leadership Award by CMO Asia’s Water Leadership Award ceremony at the Le Meredian Hotel in Singapore on August 2, 2017. Representing Waters Philippines is Chairman Josiah Go. Launched in 1995, Waters Philippines is a pioneering and innovative company with many firsts: 1st home water purifier firm in the Philippines utilizing […]

P&G pioneered advertising their cleaning products on TV (hence they are called ‘soap operas’). For many decades, this form of advertising had been the most reliable and bankable way to engage consumers. After all, this golden window when the family congregates in the sala is when consumers are glued in and receptive. Today, the way people consume media has changed […]

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