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CEBUANA LHUILLIER FORGES TIE-UP WITH PDI
In photo (from left to right): Ms. Marissa Ancog, Corporate Planning Group Head - Cintree Management Inc.; Ms. Jocel Adorable, AVP and Marketing Director - PDI; Mr. Jean Henri Lhuillier, President and CEO - Cebuana Lhuillier, Mr. Rene Reinoso, SVP for Sales and Marketing Director - PDI; and Mr. Anton Arrieta, OPCom Chairman - Cebuana Lhuillier.
Cebuana Lhuillier Pawnshop, the leading pawnshop chain in the country recently signed a memorandum of agreement (MOA) with the Philippine Daily Inquirer (PDI), the most widely read and circulated newspaper in the country. The MOA signing was conducted at the PJ Lhuillier Corporate Center in Makati City.
Cebuana Lhuillier Pawnshop branches nationwide will serve as drop box centers for PDI’s Guyito Wildhunt promo, which will run from August 8 to November 5, 2008.
SARAH GERONIMO IS CEBUANA LHUILLIER'S NEWEST GEM
Cebuana Lhuillier recently signed Sarah Geronimo as their first ever celebrity endorser. Sarah and her mother, Divina Geronimo, were chosen to be the company's endorsers due to their credibility, and the responsible mom instinct displayed by Sarah's mother, a trait that the pawnshop customers can associate with. Photo shows Vic del Rosario, Chairman and CEO of Viva Communications Inc.; Sarah Geronimo; Jean Henri Lhuillier, President and CEO of Cebuana Lhuillier; Divina Geronimo and Andre D. Lhuillier, Vice-President of Cebuana Lhuillier Services, Corp.
CEBUANA LHUILLIER BACKS RP SPORTS, AGAIN
Cebuana Lhuillier has extended once again a lending hand to Philippine sports, providing sponsorship to the national men's tennis team that will be going up against Japan this week-end in their Group I Davis Cup tie match at the Rizal Memorial tennis courts.
Sportsman-businessman Jean Henri Lhuillier, himself a competitive club level tennis player, and president of Cebuana Lhuillier has been designated again as the team manager of the team, the same role that he played in previous Davis Cup matches of the Philippines and in last year's SEA games in Thailand with Fil-Am player Cecil Mamiit winning 4 medals including the gold in the men's singles event.
"Our company has always been behind Philippine sports and we will continue to do so as we seek to develop our athletes to achieve world class level, the coming Davis Cup match against Japan provides our tennis players the opportunity to play at a high level. We have confidence in our players and again we expect Cecil Mamiit to play a key role. It will be a difficult match but our boys should be able to give a good account of them," said Lhuillier who is also discussing plans with PHILTA regarding the junior Davis Cup team.
Cebuana Lhuillier has also been supporting softball which won 2 golds in Thailand last year at the SEA Games in Lhuillier's role as president of the Amateur Softball Association of the Philippines (ASAPHIL), and he was among the first to respond to the call for help by the national women's basketball team that placed second in the SEABA championships and third in the SEA Games.
JHL APPOINTED HONORARY CONSUL GENERAL OF SAN MARINO TO MANILA
Businessman Jean Henri Lhuillier, President and CEO of PJ Lhuillier Group of Companies, was recently appointed to be the Honorary Consul General of the Republic of San Marino to the Philippines. The Republic of San Marino is the oldest existing constitutional republic in the world and is an enclave in Italy. Seen in the photo are Jean Henri Lhuillier with San Marino Secretary of State for Foreign and Political Affairs Fiorenzo Stolfi.
ALAGANG CEBUANA PLUS - A MICRO-INSURANCE INNOVATION
Insurance moves up to a whole new level and seeks to cater to the masses with the introduction by the P. Lhuillier Insurance Agency (PLIA), a member for the PJ Lhuillier Group of Companies, of its new product, Alagang Cebuana Plus (ACP) which combines both personal accident and house insurance under one easy to pay package. ACP is one of the innovative products under PLIA's AllCare Insurance brand.
ACP carries a Personal Accident Insurance coverage of P20,000.00 for a period of 4 months, plus a new feature - Fire Insurance Cash Aid (FICA) which carries a cash aid of P5,000.00 per certificate. Customers can avail a maximum of five (5) certificates.
"We've always been concerned with the financial needs of the common folks," says Jean Henri Lhuillier, president of PLIA. "And with this new product, we're finally able to give more to those who need it most, at a very affordable price."
With FICA, ACP now can reach more Filipinos and provide a wider coverage, that of property protection. ACP will cover all kinds of residential dwellings, including their contents. In addition to that, all the usual procedures on Fire Insurance policy issuance - inspection report, for example - are no longer necessary. In the event of any accident or fire claims, policyholders can just file the requirements at their nearest Cebuana Lhuillier branch.
"With a premium of only P25 per certificate, we expect this new product to reach new heights for PLIA and achieve another milestone in Philippine micro-insurance industry," says Jonathan Batangan, PLIA's general manager.
ACP, which has already insured more than 6 million Filipinos, is now available in all Cebuana Lhuillier branches nationwide. ACP is underwritten by Malayan Insurance Co., the country’s No. 1 non-life insurer for straight 37 years.
MANDALUYONG YOUTH GROUP IN MOUNTAIN CLEAN-UP IN MT. BANAHAW
Members of the Young Journalists Association of Mandaluyong (Y-JAM) will be conducting their annual mountain clean-up along the lower slopes of Mt. Banahaw in Quezon as the highlight activity of their overnight Nature Awareness and Environmental Workshop set on February 16 and 17.
Composed of high school campus journalists from different public and private schools in Mandaluyong, this 10 year old anti-drug abuse youth group embarks on various values-formation program including sports and leadership seminars and regular writing workshops, to offer alternatives to youth other than illegal drugs or vices.
"City-bred young people need to experience the beauty of nature and in so doing, awaken in them that needed sense of ownership and responsibility to protect the environment , and this annual trekking in Mt. Banahaw gives them that opportunity," said Y-JAM adviser Lito Cinco whose various programs for the youth of Mandaluyong are supported by Mayor Benhur Abalos and the city government on a regular basis, Mayor Abalos being one of the founders of the organization.
'"We are proud of the involvement of our youth in this environmental project, and we will continue supporting such activities that promotes this kind of awareness among young people," said Mayor Abalos.
For this year, the activity also got support from other well-meaning companies and people like Cebuana Lhuillier through the PJL Foundation and David's Salon, which last year also supported Y-JAM's inter-school spelling bee and Christmas gift-giving in Mt. Banahaw, Mandaluyong businessmen Nandy Charvet , Albert Almendralejo, and Alex Wang, and members of Paco Catholic School Class' 72 to which Cinco belongs.
Around 24 students and teachers are expected to join the event which will also feature an essay-writing and photo contest for the students who will participate to deepen their learning from this nature adventure experience.
CEBUANA LHUILLIER SUPPORTS CAMPAIGN FOR FIL-FOREIGN ATHLETES
For a long time now, Philippine sports has been trying to catch up with the rest of the world in sports and one of the paths taken by local National Sports Associations (NSA) is to recruit Fil-Foreign athletes or those with pure Filipino blood but born and raised in other countries.
Among the sports that have benefited from this recruitment program are the Philippine Amateur Swimming Association (PASA) with US-based swimmer Miguel Molina winning 4 gold medals in the recent 24th South East Asian (SEA) Games in Thailand late in 2006, the Philippine Tennis Association (PHILTA), with the recruitment of full blooded Filipinos Cecil Mamiit and Eric Taino for both its Davis Cup and SEA Games campaigns last year, and even at the Asian Games in 2006, basketball, both for its men's and women's national teams, and beach volleyball among others.
Sportsman-businessman Jean Henri Lhuillier, whose passion and love for sports both as an athlete and patron are acknowledged in Philippine sports, has been actively supporting the development of sports in the Philippines with emphasis on softball, being the president of the Amateur Softball Association of the Philippines (ASAPHIL), tennis, where he is the team manager of the men's team in both the Davis Cup and regional meets, and basketball, where he has been involved the most for the longest time.
His companies, Cebuana Lhuillier, Le Soleil de Boracay, a high end resort hotel in Boracay, and Cebuana Lhuillier Services Corporation, through its Pera Padala service, is the major backer of Mamiit and Taino for their international campaigns, working hand in hand with PHILTA and the Philippine Sports Commission (PSC) for the funding of the tennis players' international stints.
Mamiit was instrumental in the Philippines' Davis Cup victory over Kuwait last year which brought the Philippines to Group I after a long absence, and he also brought home a gold medal in the men's singles event plus two silver medals and a bronze medal in the last SEA Games.
In basketball, Cebuana Lhuillier was previously involved in a long term men's basketball development program, but last year, Lhuillier was among the first to respond to the call for help by the women's basketball team then scheduled to play in the South East Asian basketball (SEABA) championship in Thailand.
And through its sponsorship of the RP-Cebuana women's cage team, together with other basketball - loving people and companies in the Philippines who were tapped by the Basketball Association of the Philippines - Samahang Basketball ng Pilipinas (BAP-SBP), the local ruling body for the sport, the team finished a strong second to Thailand, its best showing so far in the tournament.
Quarterbacking the team, coached by former professional basketball player Fritz Gaston, was Vicky Brick, a former Division I player from the University of Maryland in the United States who was contracted to play for the national team until the SEA Games.
At the SEA Games, two more Fil-Foreign players joined Brick and the team, Fil-Am Melissa Jacob and Fil-Syrian Amira Isa; however, the team encountered tougher opposition in Thailand and could only finish with a bronze medal behind Thailand and Malaysia.
Under the BAP-SBP program, the NSA is open to any legitimate Fil-Foreign basketball player who may be interested to play for the women's national team, and Cebuana Lhuillier is presently working on a project where interested Fil-Am athletes, regardless of the sport they play, can send their letter of interest together with their credentials and Cebuana Lhuillier will endorse the papers to the NSA concerned. Interested parties may send their letter of interest together with family and educational background plus athletic credential and records to atletang.pinoy@yahoo.com
National coach Gaston confirmed that the BAP-SBP will always be on the look-out for basketball talents to beef up the team and with Cebuana Lhuillier lending a helping hand, more talents may just emerge.
"WE HAVE GOOD CHANCES AGAINST JAPAN" - LHUILLIER
The forthcoming Group I Davis Cup tie match between the Philippines and Japan, set February 8 to 10 at the Rizal Memorial tennis courts at the RMSC, will be a big test for the men's national tennis team headed by Fil-Am and SEA Games hero Cecil Mamiit.
Backstopping Mamiit, who played a key role in the one gold, 2 silver 1 bronze medal haul of the team in the last SEA Games, including the singles championship, are American-based Eric Taino, and homegrown talents Johnny Arcilla, Patrick Tierro, and future tennis starts Kyle Dandan and Pablo Olivarez.
And according to sportsman-businessman Jean Henri Lhuillier, who has been named anew as the Philippine Davis Cup team manager with Cebuana Lhuillier as the official team sponsor, "I believe we have good chances against Japan next month and our boys have been training regularly in preparation for this first Group I matches we will be playing after a long time. The fact that the team played together at the SEA Games before this Davis Cup will be in our favor and of course with the Philippines hosting the event here, we will have the home town and home court advantage," said Lhuillier.
The fact that the RP tennis team members also were given the opportunity to play in some international tournaments prior to the Davis Cup match should also put them in the needed competition mode and condition, Lhuillier added.
Mamiit was set to play this January in Hawaii and China while Arcilla and Tierro were scheduled to play in India to serve as tune-up matches.
On his part, Mamiit before he left for the United States last month said "Japan will be tough but I think we are pretty much even with their players now even if they may be favored on paper because they have more internationally ranked players, in the late 90's, I remember the Philippines beating Japan in a Group I meeting. Crowd support will be important and since they will be probably coming in from cold weather, the playing conditions should be in our favor. But still, we should always give respect to them as strong opponents and we need to continue to work harder."
If the Philippines gets past Japan, next opponent will be the winner of the other Group I match between India and Uzbekistan.
As early as now, the Philippine Lawn Tennis Association (PHILTA) is leaving no stone unturned in their preparation to host this important Group I match between Japan and the Philippines.
A JOB WELL DONE FOR ASAPHIL
The International Softball Federation (ISF) definitely had a very successful convention last Oct. 24th to the 25th at the EDSA Shangri-La Hotel in Manila, Philippines with a lot of positive results from the 3-day event.
In fact it was a record turnout of member countries as 83 nations from 5 regions of the world were represented in the gathering, the biggest in the history of the Federation, and host organization the Amateur Softball Association of the Philippines (ASAPHIL), headed by sportsman-businessman Jean Henri Lhuillier as President certainly deserves credit for a job well done.
The event may have just been for a few days but as far as the ASAPHIL, and its secretary-general Danny Francisco was concerned, the preparation for the event took their organization months to put in place, with a lot of resources and manpower provided by Cebuana Lhuillier Pawnshop and Le Soleil de Boracay, two companies of Mr. Lhuillier which sponsored the event.
There were a thousand and one things to be done and last-minute details to be arranged prior to the Congress itself, but everything was delivered in the end to the satisfaction of ISF.
"It was certainly worth all our efforts as we saw the Congress delegates arriving one by one, and later on, working seriously with their respective groups and commissions, I believe the results can speak for themselves. For the Philippines, it was certainly a big honor for us to have been chosen as the host of this year's ISF Congress, it gave us the opportunity to showcase the Philippines to the rest of the world, at the same time, we were able to show once more our capabilities to host big international events as we have done in the past," said Lhuillier.
The event resulted to a lot of both pre-event and post event print, radio, and television media coverage as ASAPHIL left no stone unturned in making the event a well-publicized one in local newspapers, including two television news releases, and one where ISF president Don Porter and Lhuillier were interviewed in a highly popular sports talk show that was aired all the way to mainland USA.
At the pre-event press conference, Lhuillier cited the possibility of the Philippines making a bid to host a world softball championship in his country, after all, the Philippines is considered one of the major softball powers in this part of the world, in fact the Philippines won both the men's and women's softball championship at the 2005 South East Asia Games (SEAG), placed second to Japan in the Asian Men's Softball Championship, while the women's team finished in the top 4 in the 2007 Asian Women's championship.
Philippine Olympic Committee (POC) president Jose "Peping" Cojuangco was also a special guest at the welcome dinner tendered by Lhuillier for the ISF officials and delegates, while legislator and local softball patron Congressman Jack Duavit was the guest at the closing dinner, also sponsored by Lhuillier.
It was indeed a job well done for the host country.
CEBUANA LHUILLIER PERA PADALA PARTNERS
WITH UAE-BASED REMITTANCE FIRM
Cebuana Lhuillier Services, Corp. (CLSC), of the PJ Lhuillier Group of Companies, whose main business is the Pera Padala remittance service, expands in the Middle East with its first direct international remittance partner Xpress Money Services Ltd. of the United Arab Emirates-based firm UAE Exchange.
Cebuana Lhuillier is the largest pawnshop network in the forefront of financial services in the Philippines, while Xpress Money is a leading global provider of instant money transfer services. This tie-up brings together two formidable forces in the money transfer field to provide that extra quality service to the country.
According to CLSC President Jean Henri Lhuillier, "The partnership between CLSC and Xpress Money will enable us to provide fast and efficient service to OFWs in the Middle East and Europe." Xpress Money is a service widely available in the Middle East, South Asia and Europe with more than 5,300 agents located in over 62 countries. Lhuillier adds, "This is a perfect synergy between two groups which are bound with similar visions of providing world class services in the international remittance industry."
During the recent contract signing and press conference between the two groups, His Excellency Abdulla Humaid Ali al Mazroei, Chairman of Xpress Money, said that "the tie-up with Cebuana Lhuillier is very timely since the number of OFWs is constantly on the rise and with this association, [they] intend to fulfill the need of the Filipino remitters with a provider of quality service through an impressive national presence."
The partnership empowers the Filipino community by providing a reliable medium for money transfers with the extended business hours and weekend operations of Cebuana Lhuillier. "Xpress Money customers can maximize Cebuana Lhuillier's reach, having the largest branch network in the Philippines," said CLSC Vice President Andre Lhuillier. "This is what our partnership with Xpress Money provides, particularly in the Middle East area where we have started moving more aggressively."
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