Steve Sy is the Founder and CEO of Great Deals E-Commerce Corporation, a pioneer and currently the Philippines’ largest provider of end-to-end ecommerce solutions to over 300 of the biggest manufacturers and country distributors in the Philippines. Great Deals was recently ranked by Inquirer and Statista as the fastest growing company in the Philippines, and by Financial Times as the […]
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Vanee Gosiengfiao is the General Manager of Sanofi Consumer Healthcare. Prior to this, she was General Manager of Diageo Philippines and General Manager of GSK Consumer Healthcare in Thailand. In this interview, she shares her thoughts about the importance of having a solid brand purpose. Q1: What’s the business case for having a brand purpose? A1: First, Purpose drives differentiation. […]
Acer is one of the world’s top 10 computer brands with a global market share in the 7% range. Its managing director for the Philippines, Manuel Wong, was an entrepreneur before being tapped to head Acer in the Philippines close to two decades ago. For 16 consecutive years (since 2005), the organization has attained market leadership in computers and laptops, […]
CoreProc, an IT company, created the brand drybrush, an e-commerce website for artists to sell their paintings, sculptures, and artwork at the height of the COVID-19 pandemic. This not only helped artists, but also gave CoreProc substantial revenue growth, without the continuous customization burden of their old IT business model. In this interview, CoreProc President Jojo Liao shares about their […]
Teresita Ang-See is an academic, writer, community leader, and social activist. She is Co-Founder of Kaisa Para Sa Kaunlaran, a movement working towards the full integration of the Chinese-Filipino community, which operates the Bahay Tsinoy Museum of Chinese in Philippine Life. She is also a former President of the Philippine Association for Chinese Studies and is currently part of its […]
We asked two top market research practitioners: NielsenIQ Managing Director for Myanmar, Vietnam and Philippines Patrick Cua, and Kantar Philippines President Gary de Ocampo, to share about consumer behaviors which they have encoded in 2021 and their implications in 2022. Here are their views: Q1: What key changes in consumer behavior have you encoded during the pandemic that were hardly mentioned in the […]
Happy New Year. I am honored to have Q&As with leaders of different industries. They made time and unselfishly gave their insights in order for others to benefit from the learnings they shared. Thanks to the Philippine Daily Inquirer, the Philippines no. 1 broadsheet, for cross posting. My top 10 Q&A (according to the number of readers) are: 1. COACH […]
Cris Albert is the President and CEO of iSport Life, the sole distributor and master licensee of the iconic Italian brand FILA in the Philippines. Thanks to her leadership, the brand has continuously stayed up-to-date in its expansion, with new product categories and a growing e-commerce business that has seen it reach the top 10 in the Lifestyle and Sports […]
Leandro Leviste is the President and CEO of Solar Philippines, a company he founded in 2013. In this interview, he shares the strategy of Solar Philippines as well as Solar Philippines Nueva Ecija Corporation (SPNCC), the developer of a 500 MW solar project that is planned to be the largest solar project in Southeast Asia, and will be listed in […]
At the recently concluded 16th Mansmith Young Market Masters Awards (YMMA), we asked three of the marketing rockstars to share about innovating the product or service concept. They are Andrew Alianan, Marketing Manager of North Ridge Foods and YMMA Awardee for Export Marketing, Cherrie Atilano, Founder of AGREA and YMMA Awardee for Advocacy Marketing. and Dr. Jan De Leon, Academics & Services Director of Dr. […]