SPECIAL FEATURE
Major Corporate Members 2008-2009

Since the implementation of the Major Corporate Membership program in the first quarter of 1998, an extremely successful partnership has been established between CanCham and its program suporters.

On the one hand it allows for our major corporate members to maximize their exposure to our members and the rest of the business community and on the other, the program plays an integral role in providing the chamber the much needed resources that allows us to provide value added services to all our members.

This years participants represent all sectors of the economy: financial services, insurance, engineering, information technology, property management, relocation services, hotel services and telecommunications. We encourage all members to support their business efforts throughout the year.

The Canadian Chamber of Commerce is most grateful to present this year’s supporters of the Major Corporate Membership program.

> AGS Four Winds
(formerly Executive International Movers)

AGS Four Winds is the oldest and most established mover in the Philippines, originally set up in 1951 as Delbros International Moving, Inc. a company with a history of excellence and quality service born out of a culture of constant improvement in customer and client satisfaction. In 2000, there was a management buyout and the name was changed to Executive International Movers and in early 2008 the company was bought by AGS of France – the largest moving and storage firm in Europe.

AGS Four Winds also has an office and warehouse in Cebu which provides services to organizations and individuals who are located in the Visayas and Mindanao. AGS Four Winds is one of the few relocation firms in the Philippines that have an office outside Metro Manila with a full time presence of experienced staff dedicated to moving household goods.

AGS Four Winds is a member of the International Moving Federation (FIDI) based in Brussels. After undertaking a rigorous certification program, AGS Four Winds was awarded the FAIM quality certification. AGS Four Winds is proud to be part of the group of companies who have achieved the FAIM certification. We are also affiliated member of internationally recognized moving associations such as the Household Goods Forwarders Association of America (HHGFAA), British Association of Removers (BAR) and the Far East Movers Association (FEMA).

AGS Four Winds specializes in the following areas:
• International door-to-door re-movals of Household—Goods and Personal Effects
• Domestic door-to-door removals including any province in the country
• House and Office removals
• Document Storage/File Manage-ment
• Household goods and personal effect storage—including secure vault for valuable items and documents
• Climate Controlled storage
• General / Project Cargo handling
• Commercial shipments
• International pet transport
• Vehicle transport
• Fine arts and antique handling

AGS Four Winds has a worldwide network of 120 branches in 78 countries that enables us to be in a position to offer comprehensive door to door service both sea and air freight and fully containerized bonded storage facilities. We are part of the largest European moving and storage firm and we pride ourselves on providing a quality seamless service to our clients. AGS Four Winds can move you around the corner or around the world with the same expertise. Try AGS Four Winds and see how extremely satisfied you will be with the quality personal service!


> American Eye Center

American Eye Center, established in 1995, holds the distinction of being the country’s premiere ophthalmic laser center for the treatment of errors of refraction such as nearsightedness, farsightedness and astigmatism. Managed by the Associated Eye Specialists, the most experienced multi-specialty Eye MD group practice in the Philippines, this Center has the largest clinical experience in Southeast Asia with nearly 30,000 refractive procedures performed since its inception.

Conveniently located at Level 5 of Shangri-La Plaza, the Center is a full-service, world-class diagnostic, therapeutic and surgical eye facility. It houses a laser suite, two operating rooms, a recovery room and a spacious patient waiting area. The latest diagnostic equipment can be found for the early detection and monitoring of all eye diseases such as Cataract, Glaucoma, and Diabetic Retinopathy.

The Center is equipped with the LADARVision Excimer Laser System and LADARWave CustomCornea Wavefront System for the laser correction of errors of refraction. It also offers no-stitch cataract surgery (phacoemulsification) under eye drop anesthesia using the latest machine (Infiniti Ozil) exactly as it is done at leading eye centers all over the world. A special multifocal intraocular lens implant (ReSTOR) is also available which allows the patient to see both distance and near after cataract surgery, thus, decreasing the patient’s dependence on glasses. A team of highly qualified Eye MDs, optometrists, nurses and counselors is always available to provide patients with personalized and first class care.


> AMJ Campbell International Movers

AMJ Campbell International Movers was established in 1984 in response to a growing need in the market place for a dedicated international moving company.

AMJ is headquartered in Toronto with regional international forwarding centers in Vancouver, Calgary, Toronto, Ottawa and Montreal as well as branches in all major Canadian cities.

All center features modern warehouse facilities offering storage and distribution services for international moves. Obtained FIDI FAIM certification in 1999 and as such clients can rely on standardized service level at all facilities and locations.

AMJ Campbell International is today one of the largest international moving companies in Canada and counts a large number of Canada’s top corporations as clients.


> Colliers International Phils., Inc.

Colliers International is a global partnership of real estate companies with unparalleled knowledge and expertise across a full range of property services. In Asia Pacific, Colliers International is owned by the Colliers Macaulay Nicolls (CMN) Group of Companies, which is the largest member of the Colliers International Property Consultants federation.

Our organization has over 11,000 professionals located around the world in 293 offices in 61 countries. In 2007, our revenue topped $2 billion and 868 million square feet under management.

LOCAL PRESENCE GLOBAL REACH

Colliers International is committed to accelerating success. We understand that real estate decisions affect your future, and our mission is to help you make the right choices for your business. We accelerate your success by making our knowledge your property. Whether it’s leasing, sales, management or advisory services, our commercial real estate professionals work in partnership to create a seamless solution for all of your commercial real estate needs.

Specialization distinguishes Colliers. Our in-depth market knowledge can tell you where the market’s going – not just where it’s been. With the resources of 400 staff in the Philippines, we help you make decisions with confidence, using our wealth of market knowledge to help you achieve your goals. In the Philippines we provide a full range of real estate services to the ICT sector. We are an integral part of the Colliers Call Centre Practice Group, ensuring the local delivery of global best practices.

A TOTAL SOLUTION PROVIDER

We offer a complete range of integrated real estate services on a local, regional and international basis, ranging from general agency services to specialized support services: • Corporate Real Estate Advisory • Property / Facility Management • Residential Services • Retail Leasing Management • Research and Consultancy • Valuation • Project Management • Investment Sales


> Globe Telecom, Inc.

Globe Telecom is a leading telecommunications company in the Philippines. We continue to grow and engage our customers through our clear commitment of “Making Great Things Possible.”

As a pioneer, Globe Telecom continues to be a part of the revolution that’s connecting millions of people across the Philippines and around the world - a testament to our continuing commitment to nation-building. Beyond technology, we feel that our business is truly shaped by the bonds that tie Filipinos together. We believe that communications is ultimately about relationships, and this drives us to innovate and constantly find new ways to enhance our portfolio of services. Looking ahead, as multimedia becomes more pervasive, we fully intend to introduce compelling new products to further enrich the lives of Filipinos everywhere.

True to our vision, as the needs of our subscribers evolve, so will Globe Telecom. Globe Telecom is a leading telecommunications company in the Philippines. We continue to grow and engage our customers through our clear commitment of “Making Great Things Possible.”


> Manulife Philippines

In 1901, the first Manulife life insurance policy was sold in the Philippines. A few years later, in 1907, Manulife received its license to formally operate in the Philippines. Since then, The Manufacturers Life Insurance Co. (Phils.), Inc. (Manulife Philippines) has grown to become one of the country’s top ten life insurance companies. Manulife Philippines’ agency force is considered to be amongst the most professional in the local life insurance industry. The same quality service and financial integrity that has allowed it to endure for a hundred years will continue to bring Manulife Philippines success in the new millennium.

Manulife’s agency retention standards play a key role in maintaining a professional agency force. The Company continues to focus on recruiting and training quality Sales Associates in its tradition to provide professional service for its customers and stakeholders. Headquartered in Metro Manila, today Manulife Philippines reaches out to the archipelago with numerous strategically located branch offices and a team of more than 1,200 full time professional agents.

Manulife Philippines was a key participant in the Company’s demutualization project. This structural change paved the way for Manulife Financial Corporation (MFC) to list its shares on the Philippine Stock Exchange (PSE). MFC made history by becoming the first foreign company to list at the PSE. This has significantly improved Manulife Philippines’ public visibility and reinforced Manulife’s commitment to the Philippines’ insurance marketplace.

As of December 2007, Manulife continues to be the largest company (by market capitalization) listed on the PSE. Manulife Financial is a leading Canadian-based financial services group serving millions of customers in 19 countries and territories worldwide. Operating as Manulife Financial in Canada and Asia, and primarily through John Hancock in the United States, the Company offers clients a diverse range of financial protection products and wealth management services through its extensive network of employees, agents and distribution partners.

Funds under management by Manulife Financial and its subsidiaries were Cdn$396 billion (US$401 billion) as at December 31, 2007.

Manulife Financial is one of two publicly traded life insurance companies in the world whose rated life insurance subsidiaries hold Standard & Poor’s Rating Services’ highest “AAA” rating. Manulife Financial Corporation trades as ‘MFC’ on the TSX, NYSE and PSE, and under ‘0945’ on the SEHK. Manulife Financial can be found on the Internet at www.manulife.com.


> Nortel Networks Singapore Pte Ltd-Philippine Branch

Nortel is a recognized leader in delivering communications capabilities that make the promise of Business Made Simple a reality for our customers. Our next-generation technologies, for both service provider and enterprise networks, support multimedia and business-critical applications. Nortel’s technologies are designed to help eliminate today’s barriers to efficiency, speed and performance by simplifying networks and connecting people to the information they need, when they need it. Nortel does business in more than 150 countries around the world. For more information, visit Nortel on the Web at www.nortel.com

Nortel in ASEAN

With more than a century of experience in shaping the evolution of communications, Nortel has been servicing the communication needs of the ASEAN region for over 30 years and is a rich communications resource for carriers, service providers, the enterprise, and government customers. Nortel has a local in country presence in Singapore, Indonesia, Malaysia, Philippines, Thailand and Vietnam.

Nortel’s leading portfolio of solutions spanning packet, optical, wireless and voice technologies are at the very foundation of the world’s economy, powering global commerce and delivering innovative network capabilities to connect rural and underdeveloped regions. Working together with its customers in 150 countries, Nortel is improving the human experience by fundamentally changing how the world works and how people communicate, creating unique capabilities for business, education, entertainment and security through reliable data and voice technologies.

Some of our ASEAN carrier and service provider customers comprise of: • SingTel • Telekom Malaysia • Maxis Malaysia • Philippines Long Distance Telephone Company (PLDT) • Vietnam Post and Telecommunications (VNPT) • PT Bakrie Telecom

Nortel ASEAN enterprise solutions are deployed to multi-national companies, as well to local enterprises, hotels, finance, manufacturing and government agencies. Whether supporting billions of transactions by a financial institution, providing vital information services for healthcare or helping education heighten learning experiences through the most advanced technologies, Nortel solutions are at work wherever reliable data and voice communications are most critical. Nortel enterprise solutions are sold and supported by a network of distributors and resellers as part of the Nortel nPower Channel Partner Program.

As Hyperconnectivity—where the number of devices, nodes, and applications connected to the network far exceeds the number of people using the network—is fast becoming a reality, service providers and enterprises must rethink the way networks and applications are built. Our industry is transforming to meet the needs of a Hyperconnected world. True broadband and communications-enabled IT applications are requirements rather than options. Delivering the right network solutions requires a special blend of expertise that is rare in our industry. It crosses multiple domains: carrier and enterprise, applications and infrastructure, wireless and wireline. Nortel has the broad multi-spectrum expertise across all these domains and fully understands the synergies across them and can help you find simple solutions to meet complex business needs. (www.nortel.com)


> PLDT Business Solutions

Philippine Long Distance Telephone Company is the leading telecommunications provider in the Philippines. Through its three principal business groups - fixed lines, wireless and information and communications technology - PLDT offers a wide range of telecommunications services across the Philippines most extensive fiber optic backbone and fixed line, wireless, cable and satelite networks.

Incorporated on November 28, 1928, the PLDT is the country’s principal supplier of domestic and international telecommunications services. The Company’s charter, which extends until 2028, authorizes it to provide virtually every type of telecommunications service. PLDT’s portfolio of products also include traditional bandwith services (high-speed point-to-point domestic and international digital leased line services), broadband/packet-based/Internet-based services (frame relay, asynchrous transfer mode or ATM, Internet protocol-virtual private network or IP-VPN, DSL, Internet gateway, and wholesale DS3), and other packet-based switching services (integrated services digital network or ISDN). These services are used for domestic and international communication, broadband data transmission services, Internet exchange services, private networking services, switched-based services, and international packet-based services. Other services that PLDT offers are enhanced special telephone features, prepaid and postpaid cards, inbound and outbound home country direct services, toll-free services, and call malls.

Listed on the Philippine Stock Exchange PSE:TEL and its American depository shares are listed in the New York Stock Exchange NYSE:PHI and the Pacific Exchange. PLDT has one of the largest market capitalizations among Philippine listed companies.

SUBSIDIARIES / AFFILIATES
Fixed Line:
• Clark Telecom • Subic Telecom • Smart-NTT Multimedia • PLDT Global and Subsidiaries • Maranao Telephone

WIRELESS:
SMART and Subsidiaries
• TELESAT • ACeS Philippines • Mabuhay Satelite • PILTEL and Subsidiaries

Information and Communications Technology:
• e-PLDT and Subsidiaries


> Renaissance Makati City Hotel, Manila

The Renaissance Makati City Hotel, Manila is a 598-room world-class hotel offering deluxe accommodations coupled with warm Filipino hospitality and exceptional service for business and leisure travelers. The impressive 25-storey property is most conveniently located within bustling Greenbelt in Ayala Center in the country’s financial capital of Makati City.

Opened in 1994 as the New World Hotel, the Renaissance Makati City Hotel, Manila is considered one of the most sought after hotels in Makati City due to its prime location, complete facilities and amenities and its belonging under the Marriott International Lodging Group.


> SGV & Co.

SGV & Co. is the Philippines’ largest professional services firm with eight offices across the country. It employs 2,300 people. SGV professionals from various disciplines provide integrated solutions that draw on diverse and deep competencies in assurance, tax, transaction advisory, and risk services. Upholding the highest standards of quality, the Assurance and Advisory Business Services division of SGV & Co. has been ISO-certified since 1996.

SGV & Co. counts among its clients the most prestigious Filipino and international business organizations operating in the country. We audit 61 of the top 100 Philippine corporations.

SGV & Co. has played a leading role in the national accounting profession for many years, and former SGV partners fill many of the top elective posts in Philippine professional organizations. There are about 32,000 SGV alumni worldwide and in the Philippines, many hold high positions in the private and public sectors.

SGV & Co.’s track record has remained unmatched in the region. It has accumulated invaluable resources in more than 60 years of operation—highly qualified and competent staff, state-of-the-art facilities, and an enviable global network. The Firm envisions not only to give value-added services to its clients but, more importantly, to become a partner in their and the region’s development.

SGV & Co. is a member practice of Ernst & Young Global. Ernst & Young, a global leader in professional services, understands the business issues that are important to senior executives. With extensive business knowledge and hands-on industry experience, the global Ernst & Young organization can implement a broad array of solutions to help companies capture growth, improve financial performance, and manage risk — anywhere in the world. Its 130,000 people serve as trusted business advisors in more than 140 countries, offering auditing, accounting, tax, and transaction advisory services across all industries to many of today’s leading global corporations as well as emerging growth companies.


> SNC-Lavalin International, Inc.

EXPERTISE:

SNC-Lavalin’s employees are recognized experts in their fields, adept at combing their extensive knowledge and experience to the edvantage of our clients. This expertise covers all stages of a project’s work plan, from the pre-feasibility study and financing, through the engineering, procurement, construction and management, to instrumentation, commissioning, operations and validation. Clients can select services individually, or in any combination, on a simple fee for service basis or in lump-sum contracts. SNC-Lavalin has also earned an international reputation for successful public-private partnerships, privatization agreements and concession projects.

EXPERIENCE:

SNC-Lavalin has over 90 years of experience in implementing and managing projects of every size and complexity. It is one of the world’s foremost project managers, and has gained international recognition and won awards for combining quality and safety with efficiency and cost-effectiveness.

One of the keys to SNC-Lavalin’s success in this field is its interactive project management software system, PM+, which allows authorized parties both on-site and remote access to a cumulative database of project information.

FINANCING:

SNC-Lavalin has three centres of financial expertise: its wholly-owned subsidiary SNC-Lavalin Capital, Inc., as well as the SNC-Lavalin Investment and SNC Lavalin Risk and insurance divisions.

Its financial professionals provide support to internal and third party clients accross all sectors of activity in countries around the world.

SNC-Lavalin’s financial services include economic feasibility studies, the negotiation of project-related agreements, due diligence, financial advisory services, financial modelling, risk financing and risk transfer.

Its financial staff are experienced in dealing with multilateral and bilateral agencies, export credit agencies, commercial and deve-lopment banks, governments and private equity and debt funds.


> Sun Life of Canada (Philippines), Inc.

Sun Life of Canada (Phils)., Inc. is a member company of the Sun Life Financial Group of Companies, with over a hundred and thirteen years of existence in the country, and having pioneered life insurance in the Philippines in 1895, Sun Life Philippines provides a wide range of products and services to individuals and corporations, meeting their needs for protection, wealth accumulation and management.

Sun Life Philippines ranks as one of the three largest life insurance companies in the Philippines with over 400,000 policyholders nationwide. The company is backed by a network of over 2,500 agents and some 600 employees. Its holding company Sun Life Financial, Inc. listed on Philippine Stock Exchange on March 24, 2000 with a record 193,000 initial shareholders, one of the most widely held stocks so far at the local bourse.

Sun Life Philippines introduced in 2000 its mutual fund products called Sun Life Prosperity Funds under the management and administration of Sun Life Philippines mutual funds subsidiary, Sun Life Asset Management Company, Inc. Then in 2001, Sun Life Philippines launched its second subsidiary Sun Life Financial Plans, Inc. to offer pre-need products - pension and education plans to help Filipino families cope with the rising cost of education and have a secure future after retirement. The offering of mutual funds and pre-need products is part of Sun Life Philippines efforts to become a well-diversified financial services institution in the country.

Sun Life Philippines total assets in 2007 stood at Php. 80.6 billion.


> TELUS International Philippines, Inc.

TELUS International Philippines, Inc. (TIP) is a leading, Philippine based provider of offshore call center services to clients in the utilities, technology, travel & hospitality, telecommunications and financial services industries. TIP’s multi-channel CRM solutions are delivered over voice, e-mail, fax and the World Wide Web.

TELUS’ value proposition is simple: quality interaction for a fraction of the price of operating in-house help desks, or of outsourcing to stateside service bureaus. Some of the world’s most sophisticated and demanding clients, including members of the Fortune 100 club, have taken notice and entrusted their mission-critical inbound customer care, sales and technical support programs to TELUS.

Why TELUS International?

Five years ago, North American companies ventured offshore largely for its cost advantages. Today, Fortune 500 companies bring their business to TELUS International not just for the savings we bring to their bottom line, but also for the quality interactions we provide their customers. Our clients recognize that TIP possesses many attributes of an ideal outsourcing partner:
• Proven track record
• 100% on the ground management team—our manage-ment team are based in Manila.
• Fully integrated solutions; from traditional voice call center business to e-mail and chat as well as BPO fulfillment.
• Fully redundant, world-class technology—TELUS International has deployed a robust and redundant communications network
• Readily expandable capacity; TELUS looks ahead to have capacity available to accommodate rapid scale to meet customer needs.

Ownership:

TELUS International Philippines is owned by TELUS International, Inc., a subsidiary of the Canadian Telecommunications giant, Telus Communications Inc. This provides the company with the financial resources to invest in leading technologies, to expand as customers require, and most importantly, to take a long-term view of the outsourcing business.