Bench is a leading lifestyle and fashion chain in the Philippines. The trademark is derived from the acronym of the founder’s first and last names (Ben Chan). From its humble beginnings, the t-shirt offerings expanded into a whole lifestyle store, offering Fix Salon for hair products and services, stationary line Prescribe(r), Bench Brats for teenagers, Bench Body and Bath specializing in bath and fragrance products, and now HerBench offering a complete women’s line, including fragrances and cosmetics.
Management of the company is shared with Chan’s brother-in-law Virgilio Lim who develops systems and operations, while sister Nenita Lim handles finance. Chan devotes his energy to the creative side.
Bobson apparel is a clothing brand that wants to provides stylish, comfortable and quality products that fits the lifestyle of today’s generation. Established under managment of Crolific Garments Manufacturing Corporation, with the leadership of Mr. Victor Tan, it is one of the Philippines most promising lifestyle brands with 28 boutiques to date.
Kamiseta is the leading specialty retailer of fashionable casual apparel, accessories and footwear targeted at girls between the ages 16 and 34. The Kamiseta brand is hip, youthful and active. Kamiseta has been rapidly increasing its influence and popularity with its core customer group.
“It’s fun being a girl” — This is our driving formula for the brand. Cool casual classics or what we call the “Triple C” has been envisioned for every item that carries the Kamiseta label.
Plains & Prints offers franchise opportunities to entrepreneurs who wish to own and operate their own Plains & Prints boutique. Plains & Prints has been franchising since November 2002 and has franchised outlets in Cebu City, Bacolod, Iloilo, Davao City, Cagayan de Oro, Baguio, Dagupan, Cabanatuan, Marilao, and Valenzuela.
Penshoppe Clothing provides a variety of styles to choose from and constantly update its collection. Started in 1986, today Penshoppe is recognized as one of the market leaders in the Philippine’s in fashion, accessorries and personal care product industry.
Contact Information
- Tel:(632) 366-7151 to 58 loc. 183
Fax:(632) 361-4111
Web: www.penshoppe.com.ph
Bank of Commerce is one of the country’s progressive financial institutions. Its success is due in part to its shareholder strength. Their continued trust and support has made it possible for the bank to engage in expansion activities as well as meet the prescribed capital requirement of the Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas (BSP) for commercial banks.
It also recognizes the diversified backgrounds and needs of its clientele, hence, its products are designed to suit individual needs. These needs could range from both the material to the personal: capital to set-up/improve a business or savings for a future need. Prudence is continuously exercised in every transaction, as this is a major factor in the management of personal or corporate resources.
Ginebra San Miguel, Inc. (GSMI) (PSE: GSMI) is a Philippines-based diversified alcoholic beverage company owned by San Miguel Corporation, then called La Tondeňa Distillers, Inc. (LTDI) from 1987 to 2003. Founded originally by the late Carlos Palanca, Sr. as La Tondeña, Inc. (LTI) in 1902 in the district of Tondo, Manila (where its name come from), it manufactures a range of products and carries packaging innovations that satisfy the needs of its target consumers. Its main product is hard liquor.
San Miguel Pure Foods Company, Inc. is the largest Filipino-owned food company, with nearly 3,000 employees deployed in a broad nationwide network of offices, farms, manufacturing, processing and distribution facilities.
It holds in its portfolio the names of some of the most formidable brands in the Philippine food industry, among them, Magnolia, Purefoods, Monterey, Star and Dari Crème. B-Meg and Pure Blend, on the other hand, are the market-leaders in the Animal Feeds industry.
San Miguel Pure Foods integrated operations range from breeding, contract growing, processing and marketing of chicken, pork and beef to the manufacture of refrigerated, canned and ready-to-cook meat products, butter, cheese, margarine, oils and fats, as well as animal and aquatic feeds.
The Manila Electric Company (PSE: MER and MERB), also known as MERALCO, is the Philippines’ largest distributor of electrical power.
The word MERALCO, is an acronym for Manila Electric Railroad And Light COmpany, which was the company’s original name from 1903 to 1919.
MERALCO is the Metro Manila’s only electric power distributor and holds the power distribution franchise for some 22 cities and 89 municipalities, including the whole of Metro Manila and Mega Manila region.
Philippine Tobacco Flue-Curing and Redrying Corporation is a leasing company. The Company’s primary business is to erect and otherwise acquire, maintain and operate flue-curing barns and redrying plants, factories, warehouses, agencies and depots for the storing, preparation and cure of leaf tobacco, and for its sale and distribution, and to transport or cause the same to be transported as an article of commerce, and to do any and all things incidental to the business of curing and trading in leaf tobacco. It did not buy or pack tobacco for its own account during the fiscal year ended August 31, 2008. The Company leases its property in Baesa, Quezon City, in favor of its 60%-owned subsidiary, Baesa Redevelopment Corporation (BRC). This property has five warehouses with a total leasable area of 65,307 square meters.
