Visiting students' business/places of work at AGSB Iloilo entrep subject

Iloilo City, February 8, 2014

                        Prof Jorge at AM Builders HO with their VP Christian and rest of the class

I had been harping that we do site visits of Iloilo AGSB MBA Regis as part of the learning process.  Since we had eaten at 4 restaurants all ready, we had done the food trip:  at Cilantro, Tatoy, Funsyon and Chicken Inato.

I stopped in front of Coke yesterday and was planning my own plant visit yesterday.  But it took sometime for Ramey to answer.

Today, we had the opportunity to be at AM Builder's Head office, at Amigo Hotel and Mall, and at Transcomm.  Christian, Terence, and Pam were very kind enough to show us around.




OMG.  These students are no ordinary students.  Christian and Terence are moguls.   Terence family are into agri, feeds, sugar, soybean flour (commodity business).   Christian's family employ over 400 students and has 18 stores in locations like Mindoro, Capiz, Iloilo and must have sales over a billion a year (with inventories nearly a billion).

We are humbled by the fact that we still had to teach them.  Thanks God, I had a lot of things to still impart to them.  And time was not on our side.

At AM Builders

                                The VP got older

                                     A very large store packed to the rafters

                                   Primax paving by Buddy;  factory is in Capiz

                          Faster better, cheaper a la Olympics motto;  100 employees at HO

                                      MIB  -  Men in Black and Blue

                                   The banners for the 18 stores of AM Builders

                                Somebody wants to try the bowl?

                                    Christian and JoeVic

                                    That is a Zig Ziglar quote



At Amigo Hotel and Mall and Transcomm

         Pam and Terence are our guides here;  the SG knows who are the boss(unlike UI and AGSB!)

                               3r -  Relationship, revenue, results  - another corporate motto

                                 No ID, No Entry

                                Pam's inner sanctum/island

                                    Terence gets an earful for Amigo leaks

                                         Pam recruiting a senior citizen?

                                 The princess among the thorns

                                       Pam about to turn down an elderly applicant!?

                                 Referral fee program for recruitment

                                  Low priced drugs for Transcomm employees, courtesy of Unilab

                                      At Terence's kingdom, and his amigo

                                    We were framed?!

                                             Another set up