Jane Jimenez-Basas is President and CEO of CignalTV, the first pay-TV provider in the Philippines to reach 2 million subscribers. Jane won the Mansmith Young Market Masters Awards (YMMA) in 2007 and was named Asia’s Media Woman of the Year by Content Asia in 2017. She shares insights about innovation as a market leader. Q1: You have taken Cignal from content aggregator to original content provider. What is […]
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Butz Bartolome is the Chairman of GMB Franchise Developers Inc., which has been providing franchise consulting for over 25 years. He was chairman of the Association of Filipino Franchisers Inc. (AFFI) in 2014. He shares his insights about the Overseas Filipino Workers (OFW) as well as the common mistakes in franchising and how to avoid them. Q1: You were an […]
ZAP is a mobile number-based loyalty and rewards system established in 2012 by Ateneo schoolmates Dustin Cheng, Terence Lok, Angelique Uy, and Justin Lim. With over 1,000 partner stores and more than 1,000,000 members on the platform, big brands such as McDonalds, KFC, Potato Corner, Generika Pharmacy and Chatime have come on board. Dustin shared the challenges of running a […]
Toby’s Sports celebrated 40 years in sports retailing in 2018. It opened a new world class flagship store in BGC promising customers an omni channel experience. Toby’s President Toby Claudio, a Mansmith Young Market Master Awards (YMMA) winner in 2008 shares with us his excitement about the future of sports retailing. Q1: There is a rising interest in health and […]
Sta. Elena Construction and Development Corporation is an AAA-rated and Large B general contractor specializing in foundation engineering, power plants, ports and harbors, and roads and bridges. CEO Alice Eduardo, who was recently honored in Forbes Asia ‘Heroes of Philanthropy’ 2018, shares with us her insights on service and strategy. Q1. What has been your competitive advantage against the big […]
Iceal Penalosa is the general manager for contact center and food delivery of Max’s Group Inc., the leading full-service restaurant company in the Philippines, composed of Max’s, Yellow Cab, Pancake House, Krispy Kreme, Terikayi Boy, Dencio’s, among other restaurants. He won the Mansmith Young Market Masters Awards (YMMA) in 2017. Iceal shares the background, challenges and trends in food delivery. […]
Carson Tan is President of GQwest Inc., marketer of over 400 water refilling stations under the brand names AquaBest, AquaQuest, and Living Stream. A former president of the Water Quality Association (Philippines), he shares with us the challenges of the water refilling industry composed of an estimated 20,000 establishments. Q1: You were in the packaging business before starting Aquabest,. What […]
Salvador Escaño is Chairman and CEO of Pryce Gases Inc., the leading LPG supplier in Visayas and Mindanao. Pryce Gases, owned by Pryce Corporation, a publicly-listed company, attained P9.2 billion in sales from 210,000 metric tons and P1.25 billion in net profit in 2017, up 11% and 29% respectively. For 2018, it is projecting to do P12 billion revenues and […]
George Chua is President and CEO of Bayan Automotive Industries Corporation, among other companies. He is currently the President of the Federation of Philippine Industries (FPI) and 2016 President of the Financial Executives Institute of the Philippines (Finex). He shares with us the role of finance in marketing and strategy. Q1: How has business strategy changed in the last few […]
Jonn Terence Dy is the country marketing manager for laundry of Procter and Gamble Philippines. He won the 2017 Mansmith Young Market Masters Awards (YMMA). He shares his insights about knowing your customers intimately. Q1 : You like to talk about ‘Walk in her shoes, buy her shoes’, what exactly does it mean? A1: A fundamental step in being a […]