Businessman Lucio Co-led Puregold Price Club has gobbled up another retailing peer that operates the Eunilaine foodmarts and Grocer E supermarkets, adding 15 new stores to its fast-growing network.
SM Malls’ rewards program, SM Advantage, has joined Asia Miles, allowing members of both reward programs to convert points gained from shopping in SM’s vast Philippine retail chain into airline mileage.
Retailer Puregold Price Club Inc. is set to open more stores than originally programmed and expects to grow its sales twice faster than earlier expected this year on the back of resilient consumer spending and recent acquisitions.
The government is asking supermarkets and distributors of consumer goods, especially food items, to put up bulk purchasing centers in times of calamity to cater to bulk buyers of relief goods and ensure adequate supplies are available to ordinary food shoppers, Trade Secretary Gregory Doming said Friday.
Supermarket chain Puregold Price Club Inc. said Monday that it had acquired all the stores of the Gant Group of Companies, which operates smaller retail rival Parco supermarkets.
Retailer Puregold Price Club Inc. tripled its net profit in 2011 as an aggressive store expansion program and robust retail trade in the country jacked up its sales volume.
The Department of Agriculture said Thursday that supermarkets’ and hotels’ associations in the country have committed to patronize local agriculture and fishery products to help boost the income of Filipino farmers. These are Rustan’s Supermarket, Philippine Association of Supermarkets Inc. (PASI), Philippine Amalgamated Supermarkets Association Inc. (Pag-Asa) and Hotel and Restaurant Association of the Philippines [...]
