Cebu Pacific to resume Manila-Brunei connection
Cebu Pacific (CEB) announced the resumption of its Manila-Brunei flight, bringing its total restored international destinations to 18.
On July 23, CEB intends to restart its flights between Manila and Brunei, beginning with a twice weekly frequency every Thursday and Saturday.
Flight 5J 409 is scheduled to depart Ninoy Aquino International Airport Terminal 3 at 7:10 p.m. and is set to arrive at Brunei International Airport by 9:40 p.m. Its return flight, 5J 410, is scheduled to leave Brunei at 10:30 p.m., and arrive in Manila at 12:50 a.m. the following day.
Fully vaccinated Filipinos flying to Brunei are only required to present their proof of complete vaccination, along with an e-heath arrival declaration form. A certificate of Travel Medical Insurance with COVID-19 coverage must be presented upon check-in.
Coming home, boosted Filipinos no longer need to take a COVID test pre-departure.
Tanduay president among Men Who Matter
Tan assumed the presidency at Tanduay in 2019.
The 29-year-old last May 4 was also appointed by the Lucio Tan (LT) Group board of directors as COO. He will later assume the position of both president and COO in 2023.
Tan is also the vice president of PAL Holdings, Inc., and a director at MacroAsia Corp.; Philippine National Bank; Philippine Airlines; Lufthansa Technik Philippines, Inc.; and MacroAsia Properties Development, among others.
Tanduay’s performance in the last two years under the young Tan remained strong. Tanduay also inked four partnerships with top teams in the National Basketball Association, the only Filipino company so far to do so.
Tanduay won its 4th consecutive World’s Number 1 Rum award from Drinks International Magazine for outselling brands from other countries.
In 2021, it earned a total of 23 international awards.
MPIC Most Honored Company
Metro Pacific Investments Corp. (MPIC) was recognized as a “Most Honored Company” in the recently announced 12th Institutional Investor Research (II Research) Annual Asia Executive Team survey.
II Research recognizes Asia’s leading CEOs, CFOs, Investor Relations Officers, Investor Relations programs and ESG attributes that best uphold corporate governance standards and facilitate investment into their company.
MPIC is the only company from the Philippines to attain such recognition.
“Our investor relations efforts have been complimentary to improving our Corporate Governance. We view corporate governance as aligning the interests of management with all other stakeholders — with shareholders at the forefront. In this sense, the constant communication fostered by investor relations between management and shareholders reinforces that ideal,” said MPIC chairman, president and CEO Manuel V. Pangilinan.
For its performance in 2021, MPIC ranked first in the following Industrials (including Infrastructure) Sector (ex-Mainland China) categories as voted by the sell-side analysts: Best CEO for former President and CEO Jose Ma. K. Lim; Best CFO for Chaye A. Cabal — Revilla; Best Investor Relations Professional for MPIC Vice President for Investor Relations Maricris Aldover — Ysmael; Best Investor Relations Program, and Best ESG.
Get free online store
SME superapp Enstack is offering a new sales channel to its merchants in a bid to expand their customer reach online.
All verified superapp merchants will have a free, ready-to-use Web Store with integrated payment options including COD and shipping.
This rounds off Enstack’s sales channels as merchants can now sell online via Web Store and Chat Store and offline via its Cashier miniapp. Merchants can fulfill orders on the superapp’s “All Orders” page while inventory is synced real time.
Since launching in February, Enstack has helped tens of thousands of underserved MSMEs through its free, easy-to-use superapp that brings together all the tools they need to run their business from their mobile phone. By transforming offline tasks such as managing orders, invoicing, shipping packages, and tracking businesses’ performance, SMEs can keep up with today’s highly digital business landscape.
Enstack’s free Web Store does not require any coding skills and integrates all Enstack tools and services such as payments and logistics, reducing barriers MSMEs face when starting an ecommerce business.
Isuzu PH delivers 98 Traviz units
Isuzu Philippines Corp. (IPC), together with its dealer Isuzu Zamboanga, handed 98 units of brand-new Isuzu Traviz to the City Government of Zamboanga, contributing to the 10,000-unit sales milestone of the Isuzu Traviz lightweight truck.
The Isuzu Traviz units with rescue vehicle body type, equipped with strobe lights with built-in siren and PA system and 1-unit spine board, will be distributed to the different barangays in the city.
This is in line with the city government’s thrust on the Barangay Emergency Network Group program which aims to equip and capacitate the barangays to ensure immediate response during emergencies and calamities.
Home Credit releases Sustainability Report
Home Credit released its Sustainability Report last June 15 detailing Home Credit’s progress in delivering against Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) principles — a framework used globally, to measure non-financial factors anchored on sustainability and ethical impact of a company or business.
The report aligns with the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals and covers all the company’s markets across the globe.
In the Philippines, Home Credit has been the pioneer of financial inclusion since 2013, providing access to useful, affordable and responsible financial products and services to over 8 million Filipinos.
“Our mission at Home Credit is to empower every Filipino to be financially capable. Our robust network of over 10,000 POS locations and expanding online presence presents us whenever and wherever our customers need us. With our strong brand partnerships and community across the country, we have become a one-stop ally for every Filipino,” said David Minol, Home Credit Philippines’ chief executive officer. “We have provided over P178 billion in loans to our customers over the past 8 years, those loans have become a lifeline for most Filipinos, especially for those without access to bank or credit.”
Filipino company wins at Eventex awards
Waveplay Interactive brought home the top awards for Event Technology, Virtual Event Platform, and Virtual Experience Solution categories in the Eventex Awards.
Waveplay is the only Filipino organization whose innovative event technologies were recognized to be at par with global standards by the said award-giving body.
Waveplay’s Webplay Virtual Events is the Philippines’ first fully customizable online, on-ground, and hybrid events platform setting the standard for innovation and creativity in the event industry. Backed by its know-how on both physical and virtual experiences, the company now showcases its Touch-Free Executions addressing both the safety of social distancing and interactivity in their events.
CEMEX appointment
CEMEX Holdings Philippines Inc. (CHP) confirmed the appointment of Luis Guillermo Franco Carrillo as new president and CEO effective on June 1, 2022.
Luis Franco, who served as Builders Segment vice president for CEMEX Mexico, will take on the position left by Ignacio Mijares who will now lead Corporate Strategic Planning at the CEMEX central office.
Franco brings more than 23 years of experience with CEMEX having joined the company in 1999. Prior to his assignment to the Philippines, he had previous appointments to key positions in CEMEX’s operations in the United Kingdom, Hungary and his home country, Mexico.
Franco vowed to focus on pivotal strategic areas of the CEMEX Philippines’ operations including health and safety, customer centricity, innovation, sustainability and growth.
Waterlogic opens flagship store
Waterlogic, the company behind the innovative water purification technology of Aqua SmartGuard (ASG), further expands its foothold in NCR with the opening of its flagship store.
This new store, located at the second level of Mall of Asia Square, Pasay City will bring Aqua SmartGuard’s water solutions closer and more accessible to Filipino families for guaranteed safe and high-quality drinking water.
Waterlogic may be a new player in the local water industry market, but it has been providing trusted and reliable water service to over 50 million households and offices in more than 70 countries for the past 30 years. In the Philippines, Waterlogic has established branches at Trinoma, Greenbelt and SM Megamall.
The company’s latest innovation and top offering, the Aqua SmartGuard WL cube unit, is built with state-of-the-art Firewall UVC technology and BioCote antimicrobial surface protection.
Aqua SmartGuard has recently announced its Drink and Win promo to roll out the entire year of 2022.
Participants can get a chance to win a free installation fee worth P5,900, a 50 percent installation fee discount or a free half-year membership worth P8,940.
Balikbayan raffle
Pru Life UK is giving overseas Filipino workers (OFWs) an opportunity to win up to P500,000 with the Balikbayan Raffle-PRUTektadong OFW Special.
Interested OFWs can earn one raffle entry by simply signing up via PRUTektadongOFW.com for a free virtual financial consultation with a Pru Life UK agent once they are back in the Philippines.
Additional raffle entries will be awarded to those who will answer the OFW survey and are existing Pru Life UK OFW customers.
Aside from the P500,000 prize, qualified OFWs can also win a roundtrip ticket worth P150,000 to any domestic or international destination of their choice in the grand draw on August 5. Pru Life UK will also give away 10 Puregold vouchers worth P5,000 for each monthly raffle covering the three-month raffle period.
