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                    [ArticleID] => 252930
                    [Title] => Bag ladies, too
                    [Summary] => Starting this month, Manels leather goods will be among the Avon lady’s supermarket of products directly sold to customers through fashion catalogs across Asia. Manels will be sold alongside international brand names like Fila and Timex.


                    [DatePublished] => 2004-06-07 00:00:00
                    [ColumnID] => 133272
                    [Focus] => 0
                    [AuthorID] => 1212707
                    [AuthorName] => Carla Paras-Sison
                    [SectionName] => Business As Usual
                    [SectionUrl] => business-as-usual
                    [URL] => 
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                    [ArticleID] => 249238
                    [Title] => Sophisticated pyramiding
                    [Summary] => By next month, the cost per kilo of feeding a pig or chicken would be higher than the cost per kilo of feeding a Filipino.


Here’s why. On the one hand, the price of barely edible rice is expected to remain steady at between P12 and P14. On the other hand, the price of feeds – a mixture of stuff including corn meal – is expected to hit between P18 and P20 a kilo because whatever supply there will be in June will be significantly less than demand.


                    [DatePublished] => 2004-05-08 00:00:00
                    [ColumnID] => 135040
                    [Focus] => 0
                    [AuthorID] => 1488513
                    [AuthorName] => Margaret Jao-Grey 
                    [SectionName] => Business
                    [SectionUrl] => business
                    [URL] => 
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                    [ArticleID] => 180231
                    [Title] => 24-hour punching bag
                    [Summary] => SGV & Co. managing partner Cesar Purisima no longer has to go to the Tower Club to exercise. You see, SGV now has a gym – at 100 square meters, really small – at the not-sound-proof second floor (right beside the training rooms).


                    [DatePublished] => 2002-10-17 00:00:00
                    [ColumnID] => 135040
                    [Focus] => 0
                    [AuthorID] => 1488513
                    [AuthorName] => Margaret Jao-Grey 
                    [SectionName] => Business
                    [SectionUrl] => business
                    [URL] => 
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                    [ArticleID] => 178129
                    [Title] => Scalper’s price
                    [Summary] => Expect the same scalper’s prices for next Saturday’s championship game between De La Salle University and Ateneo de Manila University.


In last Sunday’s game–where La Salle creamed Ateneo by eight points–an upper box ticket, which normally retailed for P100 went for between P1,000 and P1,500.


                    [DatePublished] => 2002-10-01 00:00:00
                    [ColumnID] => 135040
                    [Focus] => 0
                    [AuthorID] => 1488513
                    [AuthorName] => Margaret Jao-Grey 
                    [SectionName] => Business
                    [SectionUrl] => business
                    [URL] => 
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                    [ArticleID] => 143961
                    [Title] => Growing the ‘cosmedic’ market
                    [Summary] => If the flurry of activities and developments within a company is an indication of dynamism, then Aia-Hinoki Clinical deserves the description. 


In the last few months, the company has appointed an old hand at direct selling to the board and has changed its corporate name.  


Appointed as chairman emeritus is Jose Tabora, who founded Beautifont and successfully battled multinational companies until he sold the company to Avon Phils.   


                    [DatePublished] => 2001-12-17 00:00:00
                    [ColumnID] => 133272
                    [Focus] => 0
                    [AuthorID] => 1206703
                    [AuthorName] => C.V. Clarete
                    [SectionName] => Business As Usual
                    [SectionUrl] => business-as-usual
                    [URL] => 
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                    [ArticleID] => 139859
                    [Title] => The Beautifont man is back
                    [Summary] => If there’s a person who should be credited with introducing direct selling in the Philippines, it’s Jose Tabora, the founder of Beautifont Inc.  Very few today would remember, much less know,  the  Filipino brand of cosmetics that was such a phenomenal market success in the 1960s and the 1970s.


Tabora got the business idea while he was based in New York as a Philippine vice consul.  At that time, many well-to-do Filipinas would  ask him to accompany them to Charles of the Ritz to have their complexion analyzed and then to have cosmetics specially formulated for them.  

                    [DatePublished] => 2001-11-12 00:00:00
                    [ColumnID] => 133272
                    [Focus] => 0
                    [AuthorID] => 1206703
                    [AuthorName] => C.V. Clarete
                    [SectionName] => Business As Usual
                    [SectionUrl] => business-as-usual
                    [URL] => 
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                    [ArticleID] => 84985
                    [Title] => VMV’s chemistry
                    [Summary] => Not a few eyebrows were raised when Glendon Rowell and his wife, Vermen Verallo, put up a one-product cosmetic company called VMV in December 1979.  They said it wouldn’t work. 


Twenty one years later, VMV has the third largest retail sales figures in an industry dominated by Avon. "Avon is in a league of its own," said Rowell, a former president of Avon Phils., which generates sales more than four times the P120 million in retail sales registered by VMV.


To keep VMV growing, Rowell and Verallo-Rowell are eyeing the export market. 


                    [DatePublished] => 2001-07-16 00:00:00
                    [ColumnID] => 133272
                    [Focus] => 0
                    [AuthorID] => 1309106
                    [AuthorName] => Estela Banzon-De La Paz
                    [SectionName] => Business As Usual
                    [SectionUrl] => business-as-usual
                    [URL] => 
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                    [ArticleID] => 115686
                    [Title] => Estudyante sa Metro Manila lalahok din sa Avon Run
                    [Summary] => Inaasahang sasali din ang mga estudyante sa Avon Run sa Pebrero 18 sa Makati City. 


Sa pakikipagtulungan ng Department of Education, Culture and Sports na nag-isyu ng kautusan sa iba’t ibang paaralan at colleges sa Metro Manila, inaasahan ng organizers, ang pinakamalaking all-female na karera sa bansa, na darami ang school contingents sa araw mismo ng karera.


Bilang karagdagang insentibo sa mga lalahok na paaralan sa 5K , ang Avon cosmetics ang magbibigay ng cash incentives sa pangunahing 3 paaralan na may pinakamaraming bilang ng 5K finishers. 


                    [DatePublished] => 2001-02-09 00:00:00
                    [ColumnID] => 133272
                    [Focus] => 0
                    [AuthorID] => 
                    [AuthorName] => 
                    [SectionName] => PSN Palaro
                    [SectionUrl] => palaro
                    [URL] => 
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                    [ArticleID] => 115653
                    [Title] => Biyaheng Budapest para sa Avon 10K winners
                    [Summary] => Budapest naman ngayon.


Matapos ang Ottawa, Canada, London, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Paris, Guadalajara at New York na napuntahan ng mga local winners sa local Avon running event, isang biyahe patungong Budapest, Hungary naman ang naghihintay ngayon sa mananalo sa Avon 10K National Championship na nakatakda sa Pebrero 18 sa financial district ng Makati.


                    [DatePublished] => 2001-02-02 00:00:00
                    [ColumnID] => 133272
                    [Focus] => 0
                    [AuthorID] => 
                    [AuthorName] => 
                    [SectionName] => PSN Palaro
                    [SectionUrl] => palaro
                    [URL] => 
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AVON PHILS

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                    [DatePublished] => 2004-06-07 00:00:00
                    [ColumnID] => 133272
                    [Focus] => 0
                    [AuthorID] => 1212707
                    [AuthorName] => Carla Paras-Sison
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                    [Title] => Sophisticated pyramiding
                    [Summary] => By next month, the cost per kilo of feeding a pig or chicken would be higher than the cost per kilo of feeding a Filipino.


Here’s why. On the one hand, the price of barely edible rice is expected to remain steady at between P12 and P14. On the other hand, the price of feeds – a mixture of stuff including corn meal – is expected to hit between P18 and P20 a kilo because whatever supply there will be in June will be significantly less than demand.


                    [DatePublished] => 2004-05-08 00:00:00
                    [ColumnID] => 135040
                    [Focus] => 0
                    [AuthorID] => 1488513
                    [AuthorName] => Margaret Jao-Grey 
                    [SectionName] => Business
                    [SectionUrl] => business
                    [URL] => 
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                    [Title] => 24-hour punching bag
                    [Summary] => SGV & Co. managing partner Cesar Purisima no longer has to go to the Tower Club to exercise. You see, SGV now has a gym – at 100 square meters, really small – at the not-sound-proof second floor (right beside the training rooms).


                    [DatePublished] => 2002-10-17 00:00:00
                    [ColumnID] => 135040
                    [Focus] => 0
                    [AuthorID] => 1488513
                    [AuthorName] => Margaret Jao-Grey 
                    [SectionName] => Business
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                    [ArticleID] => 178129
                    [Title] => Scalper’s price
                    [Summary] => Expect the same scalper’s prices for next Saturday’s championship game between De La Salle University and Ateneo de Manila University.


In last Sunday’s game–where La Salle creamed Ateneo by eight points–an upper box ticket, which normally retailed for P100 went for between P1,000 and P1,500.


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                    [ColumnID] => 135040
                    [Focus] => 0
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                    [AuthorName] => Margaret Jao-Grey 
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                    [Title] => Growing the ‘cosmedic’ market
                    [Summary] => If the flurry of activities and developments within a company is an indication of dynamism, then Aia-Hinoki Clinical deserves the description. 


In the last few months, the company has appointed an old hand at direct selling to the board and has changed its corporate name.  


Appointed as chairman emeritus is Jose Tabora, who founded Beautifont and successfully battled multinational companies until he sold the company to Avon Phils.   


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                    [ColumnID] => 133272
                    [Focus] => 0
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                    [AuthorName] => C.V. Clarete
                    [SectionName] => Business As Usual
                    [SectionUrl] => business-as-usual
                    [URL] => 
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                    [Title] => The Beautifont man is back
                    [Summary] => If there’s a person who should be credited with introducing direct selling in the Philippines, it’s Jose Tabora, the founder of Beautifont Inc.  Very few today would remember, much less know,  the  Filipino brand of cosmetics that was such a phenomenal market success in the 1960s and the 1970s.


Tabora got the business idea while he was based in New York as a Philippine vice consul.  At that time, many well-to-do Filipinas would  ask him to accompany them to Charles of the Ritz to have their complexion analyzed and then to have cosmetics specially formulated for them.  

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                    [ColumnID] => 133272
                    [Focus] => 0
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Twenty one years later, VMV has the third largest retail sales figures in an industry dominated by Avon. "Avon is in a league of its own," said Rowell, a former president of Avon Phils., which generates sales more than four times the P120 million in retail sales registered by VMV.


To keep VMV growing, Rowell and Verallo-Rowell are eyeing the export market. 


                    [DatePublished] => 2001-07-16 00:00:00
                    [ColumnID] => 133272
                    [Focus] => 0
                    [AuthorID] => 1309106
                    [AuthorName] => Estela Banzon-De La Paz
                    [SectionName] => Business As Usual
                    [SectionUrl] => business-as-usual
                    [URL] => 
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                    [Title] => Estudyante sa Metro Manila lalahok din sa Avon Run
                    [Summary] => Inaasahang sasali din ang mga estudyante sa Avon Run sa Pebrero 18 sa Makati City. 


Sa pakikipagtulungan ng Department of Education, Culture and Sports na nag-isyu ng kautusan sa iba’t ibang paaralan at colleges sa Metro Manila, inaasahan ng organizers, ang pinakamalaking all-female na karera sa bansa, na darami ang school contingents sa araw mismo ng karera.


Bilang karagdagang insentibo sa mga lalahok na paaralan sa 5K , ang Avon cosmetics ang magbibigay ng cash incentives sa pangunahing 3 paaralan na may pinakamaraming bilang ng 5K finishers. 


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                    [ColumnID] => 133272
                    [Focus] => 0
                    [AuthorID] => 
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                    [Title] => Biyaheng Budapest para sa Avon 10K winners
                    [Summary] => Budapest naman ngayon.


Matapos ang Ottawa, Canada, London, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Paris, Guadalajara at New York na napuntahan ng mga local winners sa local Avon running event, isang biyahe patungong Budapest, Hungary naman ang naghihintay ngayon sa mananalo sa Avon 10K National Championship na nakatakda sa Pebrero 18 sa financial district ng Makati.


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                    [ColumnID] => 133272
                    [Focus] => 0
                    [AuthorID] => 
                    [AuthorName] => 
                    [SectionName] => PSN Palaro
                    [SectionUrl] => palaro
                    [URL] => 
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