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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Bistro Group is the biggest international casual dining chain in the Philippines with 17 major restaurant brands like Italianni’s, TGIFridays, Fish & Co., and Watami, to cite a few. Bistro Group VP Marketing Lisa Ronquillo shares her insights on marketing a portfolio of brands. Q1: You have 17 restaurants in the Bistro Group. Why is having a brand portfolio strategy […]
Innovation is about having a new way of doing things with commercial success. It targets to satisfy, in a novel way, pain points of customers or non-customers. Many companies like to have more innovation, but are dissatisfied with their efforts. Among others, firms wanting improvement might want to look at their innovation culture. Culture is what people say or do […]
Samuel L. Po is the founder and President of JS Unitrade Merchandise Inc., a market leading consumer goods company with trusted brands such as EQ Baby Diapers, Charmee Feminine Protection, Caress Incontinence Care, Secure Adult Pull-Up Pants and Nursy Baby Wipes. Entrepreneurally-savvy and exposed to business since childhood in Iloilo City, he struck out on his own after school and […]
Benjie Yap, fresh from an industrial engineering degree from De La Salle University, started in Unilever PH’s factory team and later its R&D department before becoming Marketing Director of Home Care and 5 years later as Managing Director of Foods. He was later assigned in Unilever Thailand and returned to the Philippines to assume the role as Vice President for […]
Dr. Dory Poa is the President of Chiang Kai Shek College, the largest Chinese Filipino school in the Philippines, with successful alumni like SM’s Henry Sy, PNB’s Lucio Tan, Jollibee’s Tony Tan Caktiong, among others. A language expert, Dr. Poa obtained her doctoral degree at Stanford University and taught in the Philippines, the USA, Taiwan, Hong Kong, and Australia prior […]
I attended various courses at MIT Sloan and Harvard in Boston last March 22-April 6, 2017. My sister-in-law Wally, who lives in North Quincy, was generous to host me again while I was there. I would take the red line subway daily from North Quincy to Kendal for MIT and the Harvard stop as well. In between Wally’s house and […]
Bea Teh-Tan was appointed Consumer Business Manager for Citi Philippines in March 2013 & has just been appointed as Consumer Business Manager for Citi Indonesia upon regulatory approval. Prior to this role, Tan was Credit Payment Products Head managing the consumer finance portfolio, including credit cards and personal loans of Citi Philippines. Bea was earlier recognized as one of the […]
(Video Credit: WildAid https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mJG7RaLX-DM) Interested to offer a compelling alternative to shark fin soup? Join this contest if you are a chef SANS FIN SOUP CONTEST Organizer: Chinovation for Social Change Foundation Inc Sponsored: Chinoy TV, Gosingtian Forum Title: SANS FIN SOUP CONTEST Search for the best new alternative to shakrsfin soup Objectives: 1) To come up with an alternative soup […]
Q1: Your family was in the department store business in Avenida before you entered the fishing vessel business, what made you venture into this kind of business and in south Zamboanga? A: It was during those visits to my then girlfriend now my wife’s house in Navotas that I was able to look at their deep sea fishing business. They […]