Archive for September, 2007

Thinking Outside the Box and Philippine Business

Posted on September 23rd, 2007 by PinoyBusiness.ORG Blog Editor

Will you answer this question if you read this in one of the billboards in EDSA?
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Actually this is one of the recruitment campaigns of Google when you are driving to work in Silicon Valley via Highway 101, Northern California with no description nor any identifying […]

Do you want to go back to being an employee?

Posted on September 22nd, 2007 by PinoyBusiness.ORG Blog Editor

Most of the entrepreneurs I know don’t want to be employed in someone else’s business but intead wants to be employed in their own business. I myself don’t want to be employed (except if I want to learn something special from a specific organization) since we all know that not only money counts but time […]

Jollibee bought a $50 Million Food Company Hongzhuangyuan

Posted on September 22nd, 2007 by PinoyBusiness.ORG Blog Editor

After aquiring Greenwich in 1994, Chowking in 2000, Shanghai-based Yonghe King in 2004, and Red Ribbon in 2005, Tony Tan Caktiong announced last September 21, 2007 that Jollibee Foods Corporation (PSE: JFC) bought Hongzhuangyuan, a Chinese restaurant chain with 33 branches in Beijing. The acquisition is part of Jollibee’s strategy of building its business […]

Bill Gates Back in Forbes No.1

Posted on September 22nd, 2007 by PinoyBusiness.ORG Blog Editor

Sir William Henry Gates III retained his top rank in the Forbes list of top 400 world Billionaires after reclaiming the post from Carlos Slim HelĂş. However, said Matthew Miller, a Forbes reporter “Who’s richer now? It depends on what day it is.”, since a $2 change in Microsoft (MSFT) stocks or a big […]

The Three Billionaires in the Philippines

Posted on September 21st, 2007 by PinoyBusiness.ORG Blog Editor

Through the start until 2007 in Forbes.com Worlds Billionaires List, there are only 3 Filipinos who made it.

Henry Sy “The Retail King”
Rank: 349 out of 891
Networth: $2.6 billion
Age: 82 years old
Fortune: Self made
Source: SM Investments Corporation, Banco de Oro Universal Bank, China Banking Corporation, Equitable PCI Bank, 12% of San Miguel Corporation

Mayaman at Mahirap ang Pinoy Part 1

Posted on September 16th, 2007 by PinoyBusiness.ORG Blog Editor

I recently read some postings in website discussion why Filipinos are poor. From the our team’s point of view. The Philippines is both poor and rich at the same time:
Here are the reasons why we think the Philippines is Poor:
1. We are a developing country. Analogy: If you’ll visit the countryside of the Philippines, […]

Stay Hungry, Stay Foolish …Pinoy

Posted on September 4th, 2007 by Anonymous

You may be wondering why this quote has something to do with entrepreneurs. “Stay hungry, stay foolish…”
I was then working as a real estate agent when I received an email from an old friend entitled, “Stay hungry, stay foolish…” It is quote from “The Whole Earth” catalog, which is known to be as the Google […]