Archive for January, 2009

Tony Tan Caktiong and Jollibee Success Story

Tony Tan Caktiong’s Jollibee has been one of the most admired, most copied, most innovative and most professionally-run company here in the Philippines. It has been the number one fastfood chain overtaking giants such as Mc Donalds and Kentucky Fried Chicken or KFC. How did a local jolly red bee knocked down a multinational red-haired clown named Ronald? Let’s see another inspiring story of the founder of one of my ideal businesses. With its success, a Jollibee franchise has now a

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January 2009 Networth (+5.14%)

This is my first networth update for the start of this year of the Ox. Kong Hei Fat Choi to all my readers especially to my avid readers. Happy Chinese New Year to all! Among my readers, there were two that stood out. Thanks to someone from Brampton Ontario Canada who visits my page everyday and had a total of 62 returning visits. And also to someone living in Dubai United Arab Emirates who also visits my site often having a total of 23 returning visits. And to all other readers, thanks for

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Looming “Iceland Bankrupty”

Nowadays, we often hear a lot going bankrupt. There are a lot of individuals and private citizens that went bankrupt. Their house were foreclosed. Their private possessions were ripped off from them. There are a lot of companies going bankrupt with even the most established companies such as Washinton Mutual, Lehman Brothers, etc. But have you heard of a country going bankrupt? Yes, you heard it right. Iceland is in the brink of bankruptcy. Now, it really is a problem. Here is a series of

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Job Cuts Around The World

The world is experiencing one of the worst global financial crisis. As I wrote on one of my previous articles, the main culprit in today’s global recession are the subprime mortgages that originated from risky investments of investment banks. Because of these global recession, there are a lot of companies cutting costs by cutting jobs. These job cuts and job losses were implemented because of slow demand for company’s products and therefore less profits. With less profits and

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Reader Email: On Stocks and Mutual Funds

I would start featuring reader emails to me that deserves to be featured so that other readers will benefit from it also. For readers, if you have questions, you can leave a comment in any of the articles or you can directly email me. I will try my best to answer your queries as much as I can. In that way, there would be more interaction between me and my readers. This would be the first set of emails that I received from 3 of my readers. I am happy that this blog is increasing its reach and

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Inspiring “Roselle Ambubuyog”

You might be saying, who is “Roselle Ambubuyog”? I’ve never heard of her. Or probably, you might heard about her in the past but forgotten about it. I remembered I watched the talk show program of Dina Bonnevie before when her guest was no other than the inspiring “Roselle Ambubuyog”. She was very inspiring that my spirits were uplifted when I heard her talk. If you don’t know her, she is very famous in our school before because she was the very first blind

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