Wednesday, July 26, 2006
The Small Business Corporation (SBCorp) conferred its highest honor the Gawad SME Year 3 Hall of Fame award to Planters Development Bank (Plantersbank) in recognition of its third straight year of consistent outstanding accomplishment in the volume and quality of loans to small and medium enterprises.
Trade and Industry Secretary Peter B. Favila (fourth from left) and SBCorp chair and CEO Zorayda Amelia C. Alonzo (second from right) presented the Gawad SME to Plantersbank represented by Ambassador Jesus P. Tambunting, Plantersbank chairman and CEO (third from left) and Maria Flordelis F. Aguenza, Plantersbank president and COO (fifth from left). Also in the photo, from left are SBCorp president and COO Benel P. Lagua, Plantersbank Senior Vice President Ana Rose T. Kwan and Plantersbank Executive Vice President Herminio M. Famatigan Jr.
Plantersbank strongly believes in the pursuit of a double bottom line—combining profitability with the social development objectives such as job creation, poverty alleviation and community building.