Dot Property Philippines Awards 2021 celebrates real estate sector’s resilience
Dot Property Philippines Awards returned to celebrate the resilience of the property sector and to honor the top players in the real estate industry. More than twenty honors were presented to leading developers, projects and real estate agencies from across the country.
Adam Sutcliffe, Dot Property Director, Events and International Markets and Tanya Yu, Country Manager of Dot Property Philippines, led the awarding rites, while Bam Pitipatt hosted the event.
The top award, Developer of the Year Philippines, went to RLC Residences, which also won Best Luxury Condo Development for The Residences at The Westin Manila Sonata Place and Best Mid-Rise Condo Development for Sierra Valley Gardens.
SM Development Corporation (SMDC) secured the most honors at the Awards 2021 with eight victories. The firm was named Best Developer Metro Manila and Best Developer Visayas in addition to taking home six project awards. SMDC was also presented with the Special Recognition Award for Corporate Social Responsibility.
The coveted Philippines People’s Choice Award for Project of the Year 2021 went to Grand Residences from Grand Land. This Cebu development which is one of the region’s largest, was voted on by the public.
SMDC’s Vine Residences and Bloom Residences won Best Lifestyle Condo Development and Best Investment Property Metro Manila, respectively. The Dusit D2 Residences from Grand Land picked up Best Serviced Apartment Philippines while Las Brisas from Solar Resources took home Best Investment Property South Luzon.
SMDC continues to make positive contributions that extend beyond the property sector and benefit society as a whole. These efforts were acknowledged with the Special Recognition Award for Corporate Social Responsibility bestowed on SM Development Corporation.
Philippines’ Best Real Estate Agencies 2021 saw two firms recognized for their outstanding service, Tricia Liu Properties and EDUKATE GROUP INC.
Panasonic nanoeTM X Technology in Taguig City
Panasonic recently partnered with the local government of Taguig City through the provision of nanoeTM X air purifiers and nanoeTM X portable generators at the city’s vaccination site in Bonifacio Global City.
Present at the official turnover and donation in Taguig City Hall last November 11, were Taguig City Mayor Hon. Lito Cayetano and Panasonic Country Head and General Manager of Life Solutions Yosuke Tanaka.
The main vaccination site in Bonifacio Global City, which recently opened its doors to minors aged 12-17 to receive COVID-19 vaccinations, is now protected by 50 Panasonic products equipped with nanoeTM X technology. Parents and their children in attendance were also treated to Panasonic freebies that included nanoeTM X face masks, fans, and pillows, and most importantly, further information on Panasonic’s groundbreaking technology.
Panasonic’s donation to Taguig City is part of a bigger program by Panasonic Corporation to provide cleaner and quality air to strategically selected areas and sites in the National Capital Region in need of Panasonic’s COVID-19 inhibiting nanoeTM X technology. Previous donations were made to Malabon City, Mandaluyong City, Quezon City, Makati City and the Philippine General Hospital (PGH).
“The global policy of Panasonic is the contribution to society,” Yosuke Tanaka shared…Now that vaccinations are open to children, we hope this is a step in the positive direction in ensuring everyone’s safety, children and parents alike.”
VTI board election
Olivia V. Yanson, appointed by a Bacolod court as special administrator of the estate of her late spouse Ricardo B. Yanson, recently led the annual stockholders meeting of Vallacar Transit Inc. the flagship company of Ceres Bus Lines which she and her husband co-founded.
The company in a statement said Olivia V. Yanson, Leo Rey V. Yanson, Ginnette Y. Dumancas, Charles M. Dumancas, Anita G. Chua, Arvin John V. Villaruel and Daniel Nicolas Golez were re-elected as members of VTI’s board of directors during the meeting.
Following the election of the directors, the board held an organizational meeting where Leo Rey Yanson was re-appointed as chairman of the board and president of VTI, while Olivia V. Yanson, the co-founder of the company, was re-appointed as corporate secretary and treasurer.
VTI said despite all the turbulence experienced by the management in the past two years, the company remains strong and resilient as it continues to be steadfast in its goal to serve the Filipino commuters.
It said VTI is committed to pursue its mission of providing safe and quality transportation to everyone.
TransUnion launches CreditVision
TransUnion Philippines has launched CreditVisionâ„¢ Link, the one-stop solution capable of credit scoring Filipino adults using alternative and traditional credit data. With a proprietary scoring model, validated against financial behavioral data and standardized in a single API, the new CreditVision Link solution provides lenders with an enhanced ability to provide credit to millions of potentially valid consumers who may have previously been unscorable.
CreditVision Link adds another layer of assessment by utilizing alternative data sources like telco (mobile phone) data, including reloads, payments, mobile data usage, and device data. With this technology, lenders can expand their reach by accurately scoring even consumers with little to no formal credit data.
This enables faster and easier processing of applications, helping to optimize acquisition strategies by gaining a more holistic view of new-to-credit (NTC) consumers.
SWAT Mobility completes 80,000 rides
SWAT Mobility, a Singapore-based smart mobility solutions provider and developer of the SWATBiz App, celebrates a milestone with partners Toyota Motors Philippines and Inspiro, marking 80,000 completed rides after the project was fully launched in April 2021.
The partnership between SWAT Mobility, Inspiro, and Toyota Motor Philippines began in January 2021, initially catering to one site located in Mandaluyong City.
“We have successfully launched operations in all five sites in April, noting 98 percent timeliness despite the usual traffic,” said SWAT Mobility country business head for Philippines, Maria Theresa Busmente.
SWAT Mobility’s alliance with Toyota Motors has created a process that specifically caters to the requirements set forth by Inspiro to measure efficiency based on timeliness of completed trips, number of vehicles utilized, and volume of passengers ferried at any given time.
To date, the five Inspiro offices that utilize the SWATBiz App are located in Quezon City, Makati City, Pasig City, Caloocan City, and Mandaluyong City.
SBCorp partners with Alaska
Small Business Cor.(SBCorp) recently signed a memorandum of agreement with Alaska Milk Corp. (AMC) in implementing the Sustaining Trade and Access to Primary Food and Link to Enterprises (STAPLES) Program.
Under STAPLES, micro, small and medium enterprises (MSMEs) of fast moving consumer goods (FMCG) companies such as AMC can have access to collateral and interest-free loans from SBCorp for their working capital requirements.
STAPLES aims to prevent closure of business operations of MSME retail outlets, especially the small community retailers commonly known as “sari-sari” stores. Moreover, STAPLES also aims to enable these target MSME stores to retain or to rehire their employees as they continue their business operations.
Shopee among best brands
Shopee now ranks third on market research firm YouGov’s Global Best Brand 2021 list in the Philippines, the only e-commerce platform on the list.
Shopee was also recognized as the sixth-best brand globally.
For this year’s Global Best Brands ranking, YouGov used data from 54 markets from customers around the globe.
YouGov Asia Pacific said despite the global pandemic, Shopee made into the prestigious list of 10 companies in YouGov’s Best Brands Rankings 2021 in Indonesia (#2), Malaysia (#1), the Philippines (#3), Singapore (#4), Thailand (#3), Vietnam (#3) and across the globe (#6). These rankings recognize brands that are best perceived by consumers across the region. YouGov’s unrivaled panel and always-on data allow us to provide the most accurate and comprehensive picture of how consumers perceive the organizations operating in the region.
Shopee, which ranked high in the rankings across the key APAC markets, represents a brand-consumer seen as high quality, value, and has strong levels of consumer impression and satisfaction, which they would recommend to others, YouGov said.
Grab lists at Nasdaq
Grab Holdings Ltd. celebrated a milestone public listing in Nasdaq’s first-ever opening bell ceremony last December 2.
Anthony Tan and Tan Hooi Ling, co-founders of Grab, were joined onstage in Singapore during the bell ringing ceremony by representatives of the Grab driver-, delivery- and merchant-partner communities,
The superapp, now available in 465 cities, was featured on the Nasdaq Tower in Times Square, New York City, after the official listing.
“It’s important to us not to lose sight of what this was all built on. The heart and hard work of our Grabbers to serve our partners, and in turn, the dedication of our partners towards serving their customers. That’s why we chose to hold the ceremony close to home. To be here, amongst our community, sharing the moment with them as we cross the threshold into a new chapter of our journey,” said Anthony Tan, Group CEO.
