Stores Asia Expo 2008 Review
Saturday, August 30th, 2008
“Retailing in Challenging Times” was the 17th national retailers conference’s theme. The three day exhibit was held on Crowne Plaza Hotel Foyer in Ortigas. The event’s aim was to gather companies that provide products and services as a retailer. Our group went there last August 14, 2008 and we are surprised by the number of decent looking people around us as we set foot on the exhibition hall. The first thing that we have noticed are the booths around us, some high-end LCD that says “Welcome” which reminds us that this is not an ordinary exhibition hall. JR Acosta said that the display contains names, products and services in which we are not very familiar of. Though we noticed that popularly big companies like PLDT, Globe Telecom, and Philips occupied a much larger room than of having a smaller booth, The first stalls that we’ve seen contains the companies who provides the top of the line supplies of software and hardware, barcodes, fire security, anti shoplifting security, real estate developers, complex radios, in store radios, licensing, uniform manufacturing and many more. As we walk past the exhibition we gathered pamphlets and we came across a newspaper called iFranchise. Juan De Guzman said that this magazine will be helpful for us because it contains recent news about franchising and importantly, locally.
Jules Barlis jumped in excitement as we see more people around us, decent looking, well-dressed, properly groomed individuals who look like corporation owners walking around the hall. De los Santos also stated that when he asked one man from a booth about how this works, the man said that displaying their company’s name and the products and services they offer somewhat opens new opportunities and a wider audience. Logronio agreed to the statement with an idea on his mind that he shared with every one of us. He said that companies inside the exhibition hall should feel blessed for they share each one’s honor of attending this year’s exhibit, they must be proud he added.
Golo also stated that what he has seen inside the exhibit was new to his eyes, in fact for all of us it is amazement. Robles stated that the exhibit was supposed to knock people off their feet upon seeing the products behind a company. To sum up everything, we learned a lot in a way that we understand some important elements in retailing from there. There are many products and services in which are intended to be used particularly by retailers, franchisers and store owners in which retailers become the consumer of some other supplier or retailing company. They benefit from each other so as the regular consumers around them.
