Milagros Ong How, executive vice president of top fertilizer manufacturer and distributor Universal Harvester Inc., says she did not learn about the complex field of agriculture from books or in classrooms.
Suze Orman, a two-time Emmy Award-winning television host, bestselling author and one of the World’s 100 Most Powerful Women, according to Forbes Magazine, lives by simple rules: Live below your means but within your needs, and get as much joy out of saving as you do spending.
Sales of Porsche vehicles are zooming again in the Middle East on the back of renewed economic activity in the oil-producing region, and that means increased demand for certified mechanics with the competence to work on the multimillion-peso mean machines.
Good times are rolling for the Philippines’ real estate sector and thus the selling is easy for companies such as Empire East Land Holdings Inc., the listed subsidiary of real estate giant Megaworld Corp. servicing the burgeoning middle class.
Prudential Corporation Asia, a business unit of UK-based insurance giant Prudential Plc, is “enormously bullish” on the Philippines, due mainly to expectations that it will post economic growth of at least 5 percent this year and that the political landscape will remain stable.
The champions of local coffee in the government and private sector still have a lot of work to do before Philippine coffee can become a regular fixture in the world’s coffee chains.
Putting up and actually running a restaurant are far from easy and not as glamorous as most people think. According to Ramon Ricardo V. Gutierrez, president and CEO of the 1771 Group of Restaurants that operates the Chateau 1771, Sentro and Café 1771 restaurant concepts, it is not enough to know how to cook good food.
Her colleagues and employees are the first to say that Esther Asuncion-Vibal, founder and chairperson of the Vibal Group of Companies, has more energy and passion than her grandchildren.
In 2009, a big time but low profile entrepreneur, Julio D. Sy Jr., did what very few chief executive officers would ever dare do: Leave a fast growing enterprise behind to spend an entire year with the family, doing nothing more complicated than to take the children to school and bring them back home at the end of the day.
Because President Benigno Aquino is sitting in the northwest and facing southeast, the Philippines is expected to be quite lucky in the Year of the Water Snake that begins today, according to Hong Kong-based geomancer Joseph Chau.
The main-share Philippine Stock Exchange index charged out of the gates as soon as trading started on Jan. 2 and hit a new record high of 6,091.18 on Jan. 9.
The year 2012 is claimed to be one of the best years ever for the Philippine economy, with the gross domestic product expected to surpass the government’s target of 5 to 6 percent and the stock market ending the year on its 38th record high, making it the second-best performing market in Asia behind Thailand.
