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Dairy Queen Gets Endorsements from Beauty Queens

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Winners of the Binibining Pilipinas beauty pageant namely: Bb. Pilipinas Universe, Pia Wurtbach; Bb. Pilipinas International, Janicel Lubina; Bb. Pilipinas Supranational, Ms. Rogelie Catacutan, Bb. Pilipinas Intercontinental, Cristi McGarry; and Bb. Pilipinas-tourism, Lorraine Golis, are the current endorsers of Dairy Queen, the ice cream that we all associate with the iconic word 'blizzard.'  Blizzard is served upside down to prove the consistency of its components.    I remember that I consider eating Dairy Queen as a treat, it's not the ordinary run-of-the-mill ice cream.  It's more expensive yet, many times more delicious than most ice creams we all have gotten used to.    Pia and her entourage also are featured in the first thematic television commercial of Dairy Queen.  Incidentally, Dairy Queen International celebrated its 75th anniversary on June 23, 2015.  Imagine that, little do we know that Dairy Queen has already been around for 75 years, providing

A Positive Projection for the BPO Industry in 2016

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photo from aseanup They say ideal events happen in ideal conditions; it's not really as abstract as it sounds.  However, this is best illustrated using concrete examples to be understood.  In the past two decades, we have seen a rapid growth in the BPO industry in the Philippines. BPOs  are created because there is a demand for efficient, affordable, and convenient services in various fields.  As we all probably know already, BPOs serve a lot of purposes: customer care, information-technology, tourism, marketing, education, business support, medical transcription and other applicable functions.   Thanks to the BPOs, there is regular employment for the country's young work force as veterans search for greener pastures or aim for higher financial gains.   photo from dailypedia BPO pioneers have remained in operation to this day and even have opened different branches across the country.  I can name quite a number that I have seen for the last decade, and some h