PRA's Breakfast Briefing for CEOs on 19 September 2018 Joy Nostalg Hotel where PAGASA Pres. STC was asked to introduce the Main Speaker for the event, Mr. Oscar Garcia-Velasco/Pres. of APJ to speak on Artificial Intelligence in Retailing.

 

PAGASA Pres. receives a direct call from DTI Sec. Mon Lopez exploring the possibility of PAGASA Member-stores selling NFA Rice. STC replies in the affirmative as this has been done during the time of Pres. Gloria Macapagal Arroyo. Discussion ensued at d DTI Offices on 17 September 2018 regarding this possibility with no less than NFA Deputy Administrator Atty. Judy Carol Dansal (in black with blue scarf)

 

STC is interviewed on national television on 24 Aug. 2018 regarding consumer reaction on the constant price increase in alcoholic beverages as sanctioned by law.

On 8 Sept. 2018, Christia Rizza A. Rabang, In-Country Analyst (PH) for Euromonitor International dropped by PAGASA Office to interview Mr. Cua regarding Home Care Industry products and how they fare in the local market.

STC addresses the General Membership Meeting of the Caterers Association of the Philippines which was held at the World Trade Center’s Main Function Room on 6 September 2018. STC invites this HORECA market to try out buying from PAGASA Members which do wholesale in operations.

 

Food & Drinks Asia 2018 took place at the World Trade Center from 6-9 Sept. 2018. Key note speaker was Sen. Cynthia Villar and PAGASA Pres. Steven Cua was among the VIPs at the Opening Ceremonies as it was in the previous years. This Show is back-to-back with the show AsiaFood which takes place just a week after it. 

 

PAGASA’s STC was invited by veteran newscaster Miguel Gil to the studios of the Philippine News Agency on 29 Aug. 2018 to air the views of supermarkets on supply of basic necessities and prime commodities and prices in the market.

PAGASA Pres. Steven T. Cua attended the Senate Hearing on a review of the Philippine Retail Liberalization Act with Senators Aquilino Pimentel III (Chair) and Sherwin Gatchalian under the Committee on Trade, Industry and Entrepreneurship on 28 Aug. 2018.

 

On 26 August 2018, PAGASA’s Directors Robert Go of the Prince Retail Group and Mykel Teodoro of Velamart guested in the weekly tele-radyo program Talk.Shop.Asia at the studios of Inquirer in Makati. They shared the latest developments in food retail with Program Host Rolly Pagaspas and the other guests.

 

PAGASA Pres. Steven T. Cua was invited to join a Seminar on the Phil. Competition Act for Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises (MSMEs) in the Phils. on 23 August 2018 at the Lecture Room of the Bocobo Hall of the U.P. Law Center inside its campus. This was organized in cooperation with the Australian National Univ.  Phil. Proj. Team. Hosted by Nicholas Felix L. Ty/Dir.-Institute Of Gov’t. and Law Reform of U.P. and Gwen G. de Vera-Team Leader of ANU-PPT.