OF TREES AND FOREST Former Senate President Manny Villar Finance Secretary Carlos Dominguez III was quoted last week as saying that “aside from our health-care workers, we will prioritize vaccinating our economic front-line workforce.” Sec. Dominguez, who heads President Rodrigo Duterte’s...
AllHome, the Villar retail group’s one-stop shop for home needs, has added another branch to its network outside Metro Manila as it opens a store in Cauayan City, Isabela. Situated in Brgy. Sillawit, Cauayan City, the latest addition to the AllHome store network boasts of a floor area of...
All Day Supermarket, a part of the Villar group’s AllValue retail ecosystem, is opening its first supermarket in Cebu on February 28, 2021 as part of the aggressive expansion of its store network across the country. The firm said its first branch that will open this year is located in Starmall...
OF TREES AND FOREST Former Senate President Manny Villar The next key step in our battle to fight the COVID-19 pandemic is to ensure that the vaccines can be administered to our people in the safest and fastest way possible. This is very important so that we can reduce infections and deaths due to...
OF TREES AND FOREST Former Senate President Manny Villar I read an interesting interview with Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates over the weekend. A couple of years ago he was asked about work-life balance and this was what he had to say then: "For my particular way of being, it is true that I did not...
AllHome Corporation, owner of the country’s pioneering one-stop full line home center, is opening AllHome General Santos, its fourth branch in Mindanao, to kick off its expansion program this year. In a disclosure to the Phiippine Stock Exchange, the firm said it already has three branches in...
OF TREES AND FOREST Former Senate President Manny Villar The COVID-19 pandemic has highlighted the importance of technologies not only in surviving the lockdown but in navigating the new normal as we start to revive our economy and restart social activities. Some of these technologies were already...
This is part of a series of profiles on a new generation of leaders, thinkers, creators, innovators, and trailblazers across many fields in the country. The list is drawn under the theme “What’s Now, What’s New, What’s Next” in celebration of Manila Bulletin’s 121st anniversary as an...
The Villar Group of Companies, through AllHome Corporation, has joined government and other private companies in signing a deal to procure Covid-19 vaccines from Astra Zeneca for its employees and their families as well as for donation to the government. AllHome was represented by its Vice Chairman...
OF TREES AND FOREST Former Senate President Manny Villar The United States has inaugurated a new president. Former Senator and Vice President Joseph R. Biden was inaugurated as its 46th president a few days ago. I congratulate President Biden on his victory in the recent elections and his eventual...
This Filipino book may just be what you need to get your company or business the marketing boost it needs People rose above the challenges of 2020 through constant self-improvement, helping each other out and dreaming of a brighter tomorrow. Despite the pandemic and the economic crisis that has...
The Department of Public Works and Highways (DPWH) and NLEX Corporation are speeding up building the first 5-kilometer section of the P23-billion NLEX Connector from Caloocan Interchange, C3 to España, Manila so it will be finished by the end of this year. The remaining 3 kms of the Connector road...
