Medical Depot expands
Medical Depot grew its total number of strategic branches from 24 stores in 2021 to 38 stores year to date and expanded its geographic footprint to cover 34 cities in Luzon.
The company is also expected to establish its presence in the southern part of the country towards the end of the year.
Medical Depot is also investing in research and development to increase its available items from 5,000 to 10,000 different products and supplies that will cater to various medical demands.
`Life caring, Life changing’
Pfizer Philippines Inc. has launched a new corporate communications program highlighting the company’s work in developing breakthroughs that change patients’ lives.
Themed “Life caring, life changing,” the new program, marked by a video story, showcases how Pfizer has enabled and empowered people to continue hoping and live their best lives thanks to its creation of various innovative medicines, vaccines, and treatments.
The program represents Pfizer’s multi-year journey to reshape the company into an agile innovation powerhouse fully equipped to take on the difficult health challenges facing patients, communities, and society.
The video features stories of a cancer patient beating the illness and getting married, hoping for a good life in marriage; an elderly couple managing a heart condition and the wife hoping she can care for her husband; a father taking care of his son, hoping for his bright future ahead; a whole family receiving an essential pneumonia vaccine; and a differently abled athlete managing to achieve his full potential with the help of movement aids.
Benchmark Consulting celebrates its 20th anniversary
Benchmark Consulting, the Philippines’ pioneer in integrated coaching, training, and consulting solutions, turns 20 this year. Recognized and accredited by the International Coaching Federation (ICF), the leading professional organization of coaches worldwide, Benchmark Consulting has served over 500,000 senior executives, business professionals and teams across the Philippines, Singapore and the US and remains committed to provide services to support talent development. The company is a leader in developing and executing custom-designed individual and team training programs and leadership and coaching programs.
Benchmark Consulting is the first to introduce the ICF Standard of Coaching in the Philippines through its individualized Executive and Leadership Coaching that enhances leaders’ competencies and prepares them for bigger roles. Its signature coaching certification for aspiring professional coaches, Accelerated Coach Training Program (ACTP), which now offers both Foundational and Advanced Courses, is the country’s first ICF-accredited coaching course.
Benchmark Consulting also offers in-house, customized corporate training programs that help executives, managers and supervisors embody human-centric and purpose-driven leadership, as well as programs that make teams perform at their peak and create high value. They also deliver public workshops on topics such as Coaching Skills for Leaders, Communicating with Empathy, Developing your Personal Brand, Self-Leadership, Turning Burnouts to Breakthroughs, and a variety of other relevant topics to better navigate today’s corporate landscape.
With its tagline “Setting New Heights With You”, Benchmark Consulting is once again poised to achieve a new milestone by hosting the first virtual conference that brings together 4 world-class speakers and experts to discuss how to successfully transition to the new world of Leadership and Coaching. The conference, slated for August 25, will also be the company’s 20thanniversary celebration.
Outstanding CSR project
The 2022 League of Corporate Foundations (LCF) CSR Guild Awards recently named Breakthrough by BPI Foundation, a first-of-its-kind financial education mobile game application, as the Outstanding CSR Project in Financial Inclusion.
Released in February 2021, the Breakthrough mobile game application aims to make financial education more accessible, enjoyable, and effective for Filipinos. The development of the app is also the Foundation’s response to the World Bank’s 2015 study recommending the use of edutainment as a form of teaching financial concepts to the public.
Among the numerous financial topics covered by the interactive digital board game are saving, retirement planning, and investing. Players meet real-life situations and make financial decisions as they move around a virtual board.
Other BPI Foundation programs were also cited as finalists at the 2022 LCF CSR Guild Awards, namely, Adopt-A-Beneficiary for Outstanding CSR Project in Financial Inclusion, Banking on the Arts Virtual Exhibit for Outstanding CSR Project in Arts and Culture, MaagangPamaskosaPanahon ng COVID-19 for Outstanding CSR Project in Disaster Resilience, and LakbayLuntian for Outstanding CSR Project in Environment.
DepEd utilizes SBFI donated classrooms
The Department of Education (DepEd) chose the donated school building of Security Bank Foundation for the implementation of face-to-face classes.
SBFI sustained its Build a School, Build a Nation: The Classrooms Project which meant the continuous construction of classrooms in areas where Security Bank has branches and taking advantage of the absence of face-to-face classes to bridge classrooms gaps in public schools.
Security Bank Foundation also sustained the major repair of previously donated classrooms, most especially those that were damaged by typhoons and earthquakes.
The Foundation also complemented the infrastructure support with virtual teachers training and educational videos production dubbed as Ready, Set, Read! to help teachers with navigating distance learning delivery and improve students’ acquisition of fundamental English reading competencies.
Vertiv, Savers Group tie up
Vertiv announced a reseller partnership with Savers Group Holdings Inc., a leading end-to-end solutions provider in the Philippines.
Working together with Vertiv’s distribution partner, AWS Distribution Phils Corp., Savers Group will be offering the full suite of Vertiv solutions in the Northern Luzon region.
“We are seeing an increase in demand for data center solutions in the northern region of the Philippines, owing largely to investment in the area by local and multinational investors. This is an opportune time for Vertiv to bring our solutions closer to our customers in the region with the help of AWS Distribution and Savers Group. The Savers Group of Companies has the experience and expertise to provide quality solutions for our customers in Northern Luzon. Through this new partnership, we are optimistic that Vertiv solutions will address the needs of more businesses in the region,” said Jason Lim, country manager for Vertiv in the Philippines.
Pru Life UK,GCash offer affordable protection plan
Pru Life UK’s health insurance product is now available on GCash, the mobile wallet provider, to offer easy access to protection to millions of Filipinos.
PRUPersonal Accident Junior for children is now available, to be followed by its equivalent for adults, PRUPersonal Accident Standard soon this year.
For as low as P48.95/year, PRUPersonal Accident Junior, a renewable term insurance plan, is now available for students aged 18-22 (if Life Assured is also the Policyowner) or for children aged 5-17 (if Life Assured is the child of the Policyowner). PRUPersonal Accident Standard, also a renewable term insurance plan, will be available to aged 18-65 and fit for various occupations.
Customers will be able to purchase both products through GCash under the GInsure feature. These protection plans are designed to provide accidental death and disablement (ADD2) coverage amounting to Php 100,000 and are available either as a basic or a full package.
PRUPersonal Accident Junior has four different packages with varying coverages that suit the policyowners’ needs. The ADD coverage of the packages range from Php 30,000 up to Php 100,000. At the minimum, it provides a renewal bonus, burial benefits and field trip coverage. The full package adds P3,000 accidental medical reimbursement and P250 hospital income benefits.
