Visit to Phil Supermarket

March 5, 2007

This day I went The Philippine supermarket, talked to their Purchasing officer, presented our products, then after presenting, he said he has to refer me to their wholesale division, which is in another office.

When I arrived on the said office, I was surprised that most of the employees there are Filipinos, I talked to Mr. Joel Buena, the Sales & Marketing Manager of Abu Nader Group of Companies, they’re company is composed of 5 different division and Mr. Buena is handling the retail division.

They already have several Filipino products such as Century Tuna, Skyflakes, Zesto, Nissin, Rebisco, Ysa cosmetic products, San Miguel products as well and many other even Patis

He was impressed on the design and packaging of our products, but he told me we have to get clearance first from the Dubai Municipality so that there will be no problems when it comes to distribution.

What’s great about Mr. Buena is that when I told him about our company and our mother company which is Lloyd laboratories, he was surprised coz he use to deal with Lloyd labs when he was still working in Manila, it’s really a small world he said.

For me this is a great start, they are expanding their network and branches and he said they are planning to open 1 branch every 3 months all over UAE, to cater also for Filipinos staying in UAE.