One dream fulfilled

Lucky Wilcon Depot Tomas Benitez of Quezon City must be beside himself with joy as his name was drawn as the lone winner of a Mercedes Benz B180 sedan during the first draw of “Dream Big and Win Big at Wilcon” raffle promo. The event held at Wilcon Depot Balintawak was attended by Wilcon’s company executives, valued associates, promo partners as well as members of the media. Wilcon Depot president and CEO William Belo and senior executive vice president and chief operating officer Rosemarie Ong were on hand to witness the first of five scheduled draws. Noted broadcaster Mike Enriquez drew the name of the new owner of the much-coveted luxury vehicle from thousands of entries gathered from all Wilcon stores nationwide. Twenty winners of P10,000 worth of Wilcon gift certificates each were drawn by Mariwasa Siam Ceramics assistant vice president for sales and marketing Elizabeth Ebio, Hocheng Philippines Corp. president Sam Chen, ABC Philippines national sales manager Enrico Micu, Matimco Inc. president Charlie Liu, and Firefly Electric and Lighting Corp. national sales manager Roy De Jesus. Wilcon’s grandiose raffle to date, “Dream Big and Win Big” will run until December 30, 2014 at all Wilcon Depot and Home Essentials branches. For more details on the raffle, visit www.wilcon.com.ph.

Finex’s breakfast forum

The Publications Committee of the Financial Executives Institute of the Philippines (FINEX) chaired by Wilma Inventor-Miranda organized a successful breakfast forum at the Radiate Hall in the new and modern headquarters of Globe Telecommunications, Inc. (the forum’s major sponsor) at Fort Bonifacio. Noted architect Felino “Jun” Palafox, Jr. was the resource speaker in the forum

entitled “Surviving the New Normal–Sustainable Development Post-Hayan.” On the government side, lawyer Karen Jimeno-McBride represented the office of Senator Panfilo Lacson to update everybody on the recovery and rehabilitation plans of the government. The highly engaging forum also counted different representatives from the media among its audience. Till the next kapihan!