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

It is a small world with Coke, especially at Coke Iloilo and its plant manager

Rizal, Philippines   |  January 13, 2014

                                   Ramey, the man in the middle, with his group mates

I had a seatmate at the PAL plane flight 931 going to Iloilo who said he was going to vacation in Iloilo.

He did not speak much because he was very much focused with his laptop ( A noted very bad practice because the laptop radiation can burn the skin and very bad for sexual/reproductive health)

As the plane was about to land, I remarked that he would not be enjoying his vacation as he could not leave the laptop behind.  And when I asked him where he worked, he said he works for Coke;  and it rang a bell because one of the students for the UI - Ateneo is a plant manager of Coke in Iloilo.  I showed him the class list which included Ramey Clavecilla, Plant Manager of Iloilo (and whose email address is at Coke)   He said that he is also taking up MBA in DLSU, is from Lipa City, and should have taken up MBA at AGSB Lipa.  He name is Willie, and he is on final stages of his MBA.  He said that in La Salle you do things for your MBA:   a thesis and a Strama (since it is PAASCU accredited)

He was with his boss, Angel and their mission was not to make Friday a pleasant day for Ramey.  True enough, Ramey replied to my SMS, that I met his tormentor at the plane, only late in the afternoon.  He was not given even time to look at his cellphone.

In the class on January 11, Ramey bore the brunt on not so friendly things about Coke:

1.  One was about an article on other household use of Coke, not as a drink;

2.  The C2 onslaught by JG, vs caught.

I apologized to Ramey in behalf of the class for the unpleasant exchanges, even from his groupmates.

Sorry, Ramey, it was not your day.

"Things get better with Coke."

                                      PAL flight to Iloilo