In the Philippines, the name Ayala is nearly synonymous with business leadership and development.
フィリピンでは、アヤラという名前はビジネスのリーダーシップと発展のほぼ同義語です。
“synonymous”は「同義語の」という意味です。
ビジネスのリーダーシップと発展の同義語とほぼ同じとは、えらい褒めようです。
フィリピンの中でも、大きなコングロマリットなんだろうと想像がつきます。
そして、フィリピンにとって重要なグループなんでしょう。
It is one of the country’s oldest and largest business conglomerates with interests in real estate, banking, telecommunications, electronics, IT, and public utility.
Moreover, the Ayala name is so closely associated with philanthropy and social responsibility that all of its businesses and employees are ready and willing to rise to the occasion when they are called to give.
In 2011, two Ayala companies, the Bank of the Philippine islands and Globe Telecom, launched a platform named BPI Globe BanKO (a play on words meaning “my bank”) toe help and empower micro entrepreneurs by providing financial advice and aid to those who could not access traditional banks.
However, BanKO simply did not have enough funds to lend out. Upon seeing this, Ayala Group CEO, Jaime Augusto Zobel de Ayala, gathered 120 of his top executives for lunch to tackle the issue.
Under Jaime Augusto’s leadership, the Ayala executives pooled together their resources and in one lunch hour, raised 25 million pesos to be used as a way to fund the thousands of mom and pop stores across the country.
While some companies may regard corporate social responsibility, as a threat to sustained profitability, the Ayala group sees it as a way to create new opportunities to build competitiveness, a higher level of trust among stakeholders, and deepen economic development.
Because Ayala Group is the oldest and largest business conglomerates in Philippine, Jaime Augusto feels social responsibility to support local businesses, I think. I think he consider that he has a responsibility to make Filipino people happy.
Do you think there is value in supporting small local businesses?
地元の中小企業を支援することに価値があると思いますか?
価値は有ると思います。
特に、日本の中小企業には、代えがたい技術を持っている企業があります。
そのような企業を支えることには価値があると思います。
I think there is value in supporting small local businesses. In Japan, there are a lot of small local companies which have special skills any other companies can not alternate. Supporting such companies is rally a lot of value, I think.
Our company has tackled mainly about environmental problems. For example, we have settled a lot of solar panels in our island and introduced Hydrogen cars and forklifts. Farther more we deal with reducing to use plastic bags.
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