How Neil Ramos started in the food business; how his self-proclaimed strong wife, Mich, gave up her business to be on his support team; the creative, delicious Pinoy comfort food at Neil’s Kitchen.
Category: Business/ Entrepreneurship/Work
Boogi Business Blessing
A few days ago, I received an email about the sale of this product from BOOGI: and that’s how I remembered that it has been a year since Felichi Buizon invited me to the blessing of the BOOGI Showroom in LRI. It was a well-attended beautiful event with a special mini-concert from one of the…
Martin Wong: Taking Care of Business
Martin Wong is Chairman of GFX Creative Imaging, a twenty-five year old “one-stop shop” creative design development, full digital imaging service, and digital print production company. Six times, GFX received from the Association of Accredited Advertising Agencies of the Philippines the Print Production House of the Year Award, an award given by the association to honor their…
See the Wisdom of Wisdom Sy
Looking at the Studio Eleven Fabrics and Wallpapers site will wake up the inner designer in you! Their mission is: See? They even call you a designer! Even though their list of prestigious completed projects includes Solaire Resort, St. Regis Hotels and Resorts, Diamond Hotel, Holiday Inn, Marco Polo Hotels, F1 Hotel, Renaissance Hotels and Resorts, One…
Ramon Manzana: Advice for Start-up Entrepreneurs
Ramon Manzana is an unassuming humble man who has interests in the Banking and Motorcycle industries. He happens to be President of Honda Prestige Traders Inc., Managing Director of Bank of Makati, among other business concerns. He is also Chairman of the Board of Trustees of Tanglaw ng Buhay Foundation and an Elder at Christ’s…
Chef Sandy Daza: Food Imprints
Do you know how Chef Sandy Daza‘s restaurant, Wooden Spoon, got its name? Straight from this Cornell graduate (in Hotel and Restaurant Administration)/ tv host / over-two-decade-long PDI food columnist/ restaurateur/ cookbook author/ food consultant whom you might consider as having Philippine royal culinary pedigree, he explained, “When I had my cooking show, everytime I talked…
Beth Young: Releasing Grasp so God Can Lay Down His Blessing on Your Hand
Beth Young’s main business was as canteen concessionaire at a local school. One day two months ago, she found out that her contract would not be renewed. She was devastated because that was her bread and butter and as a single mom raising a university daughter and a son in the process of being a…
Atoy Llave: Cool Car Customizer
Have you ever been stuck in Metro Manila roads at the onset of a holiday weekend traffic jam when a sudden heavy downpour came? Or have you ever just sat in traffic wishing you could use transit time to accomplish your task list right then and there? Victor “Atoy” Llave of Atoy Customs thought you…
Stephanie Franco: Handling People and the Value of Difficulty
Stephanie Merida Franco is Managing Director of Fresenius Medical Care (Philippines), the world’s leading renal care company. She has had extensive management experience in the pharmaceuticals, healthcare, and life sciences industry. Our class valedictorian and a dear, precious friend who has covered me in much prayer, Steph is my go-to person when I need a two-sentence primer…
What Makes Hotel Kimberly Tagaytay Number One?
Searching for lodging in the popular tourist destination of Tagaytay on Tripadvisor.com.ph will yield over 370,000 results. The Number One spot goes to Hotel Kimberly (the 2015 and 2016 Tripadvisor Travelers’ Choice winner), a well-appointed yet affordably-priced hotel in the quiet, rural area of Barangay Kaybagal North. Even though its barangay name means “so slow,” Hotel Kimberly offers such…
BUTTERFLY IN THE SPRING 