by Ekrem Duman | Aug 26, 2026 | Philippines Company Stories, Retail, Property & Malls
⚡ TL;DRPuregold built one of the Philippines’ largest supermarket chains by serving two customers from the same store: ordinary households and the owners of sari-sari stores buying stock to resell. A membership programme with volume rebates, credit-like...
by Ekrem Duman | Aug 26, 2026 | Philippines Company Stories, Retail, Property & Malls
⚡ TL;DRRobinsons Retail operates supermarkets, convenience stores, department stores, drugstores, home improvement outlets and specialty formats across the Philippines, making it one of the country’s largest and most diversified retailers. The multi-format...
by Ekrem Duman | Aug 26, 2026 | Philippines Company Stories, Retail, Property & Malls
⚡ TL;DRAyala Land built Makati from farmland, redeveloped a former military base into Bonifacio Global City and now operates dozens of master-planned estates across the Philippines. Its method is consistent: acquire a large contiguous land area, plan it...
by Ekrem Duman | Aug 26, 2026 | Philippines Company Stories, Retail, Property & Malls
⚡ TL;DRSM Prime is one of the largest shopping mall developers in Southeast Asia, operating dozens of malls across the Philippines and several in China. Its model is not retail property but placemaking: each mall creates a commercial district, and the group then...
by Ekrem Duman | Aug 26, 2026 | BPO & Outsourcing, Philippines Company Stories
⚡ TL;DRConversational artificial intelligence can now handle a large share of routine customer interactions, which is precisely the high-volume entry-level work that employs most of the Philippines’ outsourcing workforce. The realistic outcome is...
by Ekrem Duman | Aug 26, 2026 | BPO & Outsourcing, Philippines Company Stories
⚡ TL;DRThe Philippine outsourcing industry’s future depends on moving from voice customer service into higher-value work: finance and accounting, healthcare information management, engineering design, analytics, animation and software. These roles pay two...
