Month: January 2017

SAN PASCUAL, Batangas, January 19, 2017 — Multiple Olive-Ridley sea turtles have begun to nest as a result of Caltex brand marketer Chevron Philippines, Inc. (CPI)’s San Pascual coastal clean-up during the annual Week of Caring (WOC) held every September.

With two sea turtle nest sightings along the San Pascual coastline to date, CPI has been ramping up efforts to ensure that nesting grounds stay protected at all costs. Guards on duty have gently combed the surface sand over the nesting sites while taking extra care not to disturb the eggs, fenced the areas, and kept the sites safe from tidal waves.

CPI likewise continues to closely monitor two possible nesting sites near the causeway. It already enclosed the sites to prevent natural predators including monitor lizards or “bayawak,” stray cats and dogs, and even rodents from preying and eating the eggs. Guards also vigilantly keep close watch on the possible nesting sites to maintain enclosure integrity. CPI expects the turtle eggs to ripen and the hatchlings to mature and rise to the ground surface within two months.

Guards handling the nesting areas have all undergone Marine Sea Turtle 101 training by the Philippine Global Programme of Action with the Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) and Community Environment and Natural Resources Office (CENRO) Protected Area and Wildlife Bureau (PAWB).

The San Pascual nesting activity is the latest since the nesting activity along the Lagnas River shoreline in 2013. A “talisay” tree marks the area where Olive-Ridley sea turtles have laid their eggs.

“We are extremely elated with the success of our recent coastal clean-up, thanks to the continued support of the local community and CPI employees who have exhibited true volunteerism. We are committed towards preserving the Batangas coastal area as a declared marine sanctuary for Olive-Ridley sea turtles, and we will constantly safeguard these eggs, through our strengthened protection efforts,” Peter Morris, CPI Country Chairman, said.

About 200 CPI employees and over 100 town residents and students from San Pascual, Batangas joined the annual coastal clean-up, which removed a total of 514 garbage bags or 2.5 tons of worth of rubbish from the area. The coastal clean-up is the final activity of this year’s five-day WOC program, which included school facilities improvement, road safety education, and art therapy session. This is the ninth edition of the WOC, which advocates volunteerism among CPI employees and business partners.

About Chevron Philippines Inc.

Chevron Philippines Inc. has been operating in the country for more than 90 years. Caltex™, its retail brand, offers high quality products and services. There are close to 700 service stations strategically scattered throughout the Philippine archipelago and employees working in several areas of business such as Marketing, Lubricants and Terminal operations. The Chevron products that are available in the Philippines include Caltex with Techron® fuel and Caltex Diesel with Techron®D, Havoline® and Delo® oils. More information on Chevron Philippines Inc. is available at www.caltex.com/ph.

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Contacts:

Joel Gaviola Chevron Philippines Inc.	Mobile: +63 998 847 9974 Office: +632 841 1612 Email: JGaviola@chevron.com
Primary PR contact: Eileen Bartolome Chua ArdentComm	Mobile : +63 917 881 3440 Office: +63 2 6310511 Email: eileen.chua@ardent.com.ph
Secondary PR contact: Liz Martin ArdentComm	Mobile: +63 997 814 5708 Office: +63 2 6310511 Email: liz.martin@ardent.com.ph

January 18^th 2017, Manila, Philippines: Practo, the leading healthcare platform, today announced $55M Series D funding in a round led by Tencent. Three new investors joined Practo – ru-Net, RSI Fund (owned by Recruit Holdings) and Thrive Capital. Other existing investors Sequoia Capital, Matrix Partners, Capital G (formerly Google Capital), Altimeter Capital & Sofina also participated.

With these funds, Practo will further build an integrated platform to unlock value for the entire healthcare ecosystem and invest further in its international operations.

Practo has emerged as the de facto destination to find the right healthcare provider and book appointments. Over the past few months, Practo has grown rapidly to provide a more integrated experience catering to all healthcare needs of consumers including faster booking, online consultation, online medicine ordering, booking diagnostic tests and managing their health records. Additionally, Practo also provides health content for consumers written by doctors.

Practo partners with healthcare providers like doctors, clinics, diagnostic centers, hospitals etc. to help them improve patient experience & bring in efficiencies in their business. On the enterprise side, Practo’s customers include marquee institutions like Max Healthcare, Manipal, Cloud9 and many others who use Practo’s software to provide a superior healthcare experience to their patients.

Practo has also expanded its enterprise software to the Middle East with customers including noted institutions such as Lifeline hospital in Abu Dhabi and American Academy of Cosmetic Surgery Hospital in Dubai using Insta – the full-stack HIMS solution for enterprises.

Practo’s recent acquisition of advanced analytics firm Enlightiks enables it to offer business intelligence solutions to healthcare enterprises. With this Practo has completed the entire suite of products both on consumer and healthcare practitioners side and opened the possibility of unlocking more value for the entire ecosystem.

Robust growth in the consumer and enterprise business has ensured Practo’s revenue streams remain strong and thus, continue to help billions of people live healthier, longer lives.

“We welcome our new investors to the Practo family and thank existing partners for their continued support. This round will help us continue our geographic expansion. 2017 will be the year our integrated healthcare platform comes to life and we will partner with various service providers to build solutions with Practo. This will be made possible by providing a central infrastructure on which the entire healthcare ecosystem can interact, connect, create & exchange value by linking layers of data, communication & payments to deliver better care.”- Shashank ND, Founder & CEO, Practo.

About Practo:

Practo is the leading healthcare platform connecting millions of patients with hundreds of thousands of healthcare providers around the world. Practo provides a single platform to help consumers with all their healthcare needs – from finding the right healthcare provider to online doctor consultation, diagnostic tests, managing health records and even ordering medicines. Practo also makes software products that help healthcare providers become more efficient and provide higher quality healthcare to millions of patients around the world. Practo is dedicated to focus healthcare around the consumer and helping humanity live healthier longer.

Quick Facts About Practo

Practo enables consumers to search for and book doctor appointments, have online consultations, buy medicines, manage health records and access healthcare related content through its website and apps. Practo offers software and advertising products to clinics, hospitals, diagnostic centers and others 45M appointments managed on the platform annually 15 Countries: 5 countries with consumer + software business. 10 additional countries with enterprise software business. 1500+ Practeons

Investor Quotes

“Practo has made impressive progress, expanding its platform to cover more and more healthcare needs of consumers and providers. A full stack model in healthcare is very difficult to pull off, but Practo has built and rapidly scaled a full-stack solution that is rare to see globally. We are excited to strengthen our partnership with Practo, and look forward to working with them to transform healthcare.” – Hongwei Chen, Executive Director of Investment and M&A at Tencent.

“Practo has a unique model and a massive opportunity to transform one of the most fundamental needs of mankind – healthcare. We are thrilled to partner with them and look forward to working with the team as they take their platform to billions of people around the world.” – Galina Chifina, Investment Director at ru-Net.

Practo has an amazing opportunity to unify global healthcare on a single seamless platform. This could make healthcare simpler, more efficient and more affordable for billions of people around the world. We are excited to associate with them and look forward to working with them to bring this to more countries, more consumers and more healthcare providers.” Yoshihiro Kitamura, Managing Corporate Executive Officer at RSI Fund (owned by Recruit Holdings).

We’re excited to Partner with Practo and join them in building a transformative healthcare platform that will simplify healthcare for both consumers and providers. Practo is in a unique position to improve both the patient and provider experience and their model and platform addresses the challenges faced by people all over the world in both developing and developed countries. We look forward to working with them as they bring about a whole new healthcare experience.” – Kareem Zaki, Investor at Thrive Capital.

We are excited to partner with Practo as they continue to scale their offering to millions of consumers and doctors in India and other markets. Practo is helping digitize the healthcare ecosystem and offer users a great product experience.”- Kaushik Anand, Head of India Investments at Capital G (formerly Google Capital)

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Manila, Philippines – January 17, 2016: ViewSonic Corp., a leading global provider of visual solution products, announces the company was selected as this year’s PCMag Reader’s Choice Award winner for monitors. In its 28^th year, PCMag.com readers were asked to rate products and services they use in overall product satisfaction, picture quality, ease-of-use, likelihood to recommend, and reliability within the past 12 months.  ViewSonic swept all categories and easily won the overall award.

“Sometimes it pays to specialize,” stated Ben Gottesman, executive editor at PCMag.com. “While most computer monitors are made by companies that build a variety of electronics products—computers, phones, cameras, printers, refrigerators, and more—our 2016 PCMag Readers’ Choice Award winner for computer monitors is a company that specializes in displays only: ViewSonic. This is the second time in the last three years that ViewSonic has won the award.”

According to the annual survey, ViewSonic received the highest rating in all categories in which it received a rating. ViewSonic collected a rating of 9.1 for both “Overall Satisfaction” as well as for “Likelihood to Recommend,” then a 9.2 for “Ease-of-Use” and “Satisfaction with Picture Quality,” and finally a 9.3 for “Satisfaction with Reliability.”

“We’re honored the readers of PCMag voted ViewSonic as their top computer monitor choice,” said Jeff Volpe, president of ViewSonic Americas. “Our product portfolio supports a wide range of display needs, from professional graphics and video production to engineering and finance, plus our newest line of XG Gaming monitors are the choice of e-sport professionals around the world. With the average monitors lasting for several years, it’s no surprise that PCMag.com readers value quality and performance in their monitor choice. This is truly an honor for each employee here as we celebrate 30 years of making great monitors.”

This year, ViewSonic celebrates our 30^th Anniversary and this award makes it even more meaningful.  As a leading global supplier of display technologies that combine innovation, reliability and quality in its products our heritage is rooted in delivering excellent performance, functional designs and advanced technologies to our customers.

About PCMag Readers’ Choice Awards

Email survey invitations were sent to PCMag community members, specifically subscribers to the Readers’ Choice Survey. The Readers’ Choice Awards and Honorable Mentions are then based on the subjective determination by PCMag editors, taking into account all of the ratings for each manufacturer. See all of the survey results for computer monitors: http://www.pcmag.com/article/349992/readers-choice-awards-2016-hdtvs-and-computer-monitors

For further news and information about ViewSonic, visit ViewSonic.com and follow on Facebook, YouTube and Twitter.

About ViewSonic

Founded in California in 1987 and celebrating our 30^th anniversary, ViewSonic is a leading global provider of visual solution products. As an innovator and visionary, ViewSonic keeps the world connected with a portfolio of professional level visual solutions that enhance the way we compute, collaborate, communicate and connect. Our products include LED monitors, ViewBoards – our interactive commercial displays, touch displays, projectors, thin client, zero client and smart displays. To find out more about ViewSonic, visit viewsonic.com.

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Claudia Yang

VSI Channel Marketing Dept./ Asia Pacific Region

ViewSonic Corp.

T: 886-2-2246-3456#619

E: Claudia.yang@tw.viewsonic.com

Jasmin Cagsawa

Managing Director

ArdentComm

T: 0917 576 7750

E: jasmin.cagsawa@ardent.com.ph

‘Helmets Save Lives’ encourages motorcycle riders to put stickers on their motorcycles or helmets, to help spread the word on the importance of wearing proper riding gear.

“Committed towards road safety, MDPPA hopes to educate Filipino motorcyclists on how proper head gear can prevent road accidents. We hope our campaign will take Metro Manila by storm, and we are heading North, with the goal of spreading motorcycle safety awareness even in the most remote sidewalks and pavements across the region,” MDPPA Board Member and Marketing Committee Chairman Espie Custodio shares.

Motorists can support the campaign by uploading photos of ‘Helmets Save Lives’ stickers on their motorcycles or helmets and sharing their posts on Facebook or Twitter with the hashtags #MDPPARoadSafetyPH and #HelmetsSaveLives.

For more details on the ‘Helmets Save Lives’ advocacy and the upcoming stickering schedules, please visit https://www.facebook.com/MDPPA.Official/ or follow https://twitter.com/MDPPA_Inc.

About Motorcycle Development Program Participants Association, Inc. (MDPPA)

Based on the basic principles of the Philippine Motor Vehicle Development Program implemented by the Board of Investments, Philippine Motorcycle Manufacturing Program (PMMP) Association was established in 1973. In 1987, new MVDP guidelines were finalized and program name was, likewise, changed to Motorcycle Development Program (MDP). The Association was given the new name of Motorcycle Development Program Participants Association, Inc. (MDPPA) in 1989.

The current five members of the Association: Honda, Kawasaki, Suzuki, Yamaha and Kymco, are all active participants of the government’s Motor Vehicle Development Program (MVDP).

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Contacts:

Primary PR contact:Liezl Petrache ArdentComm	Mobile : +63906 775 0626Office: +63 2 6310511 Email: liezl.petrache@ardent.com.ph
Secondary PR contact:Athenna Jeremie Ordoña ArdentComm	Mobile: +63977 851 1035Office: +63 2 6310511 Email: athenna.ordona@ardent.com.ph