Monthly Archives October 2016

The Christmas season has always been a time of joy and giving. It’s a time of sharing blessings to others in need. The Coffee Bean & Tea Leaf®  reminds everyone about this very essence of the season with its 2017 Giving Journal. Focused on this year’s theme, “the cup that changes lives,” the 2017 Giving Journal makes sure that CBTL™’s commitment to giving and making lives better, one cup at a time, still holds true as it has since the time it started.

This year’s beneficiary of the 2017 Giving Journal are the scholars of the Real LIFE Foundation, as it was back in 2011 when the company supported the foundation’s “Adopt-a-Scholar” program. Thus, CBTL™ coffee fanatics are not only encouraged to buy cups of coffee to collect stickers for redeeming their dream planner...

Cooking is very much a passion ingrained in the lives of every Filipino. Here in the Philippines, familial ties are strengthened with time spent at the household table.

In today’s context, the value of a home-cooked meal still lies in the effort we spend preparing it and how that is tantamount to the care we serve to ones we love. Rinnai, the no. 1 appliance brand in Japan since 1920, seeks to elevate the way Filipino millennials prepare their meals with tabletop stoves, hobs, cooking ranges, and range hoods designed with the precise performance of Japanese technology.

Rinnai’s impressive line of cooking appliances are made for Filipinos looking to invest in a full kitchen set-up or outfit a newly-purchased home...

Veteran actor and TV show host, “Bossing” Vic Sotto, has stood as an icon for countless brands. From homecare supplies to local beverage products, Vic’s charismatic appeal and conviction has propelled corporations, as well as himself, into a level of unmatched reliability.

Vic has consistently lived-up to his “Bossing” moniker, as an authority and someone whom Filipinos trust for everyday products. This time, the comedian partners with Bounty Agro Ventures, Inc. (BAVI)—the second largest poultry integrator locally—as the newest brand endorser of Chooks-to-Go, the country’s leading and fastest-growing oven-roasted chicken chain with more than a thousand storess nationwide.

With its “Hindi ka Nag-Uuwi ng Ulam na Basta-basta Lang” campaign, built on the premise of being “Mas...

“What is coffee for you?” I was asked this question one rainy afternoon of September by no other than Eric Lim, COO of Conlins Coffee Company. I  just said one word – WARMTH. And I’m not just talking about the sensation that you feel when you hold a steaming hot cup of coffee. I was also referring to the warm, comfy feeling that I get whenever I have coffee at home or in a coffee shop with friends. Coffee, for me, helps make lasting moments. Don’t you agree?

This is the same experience that Eric wants to bring with every cup of coffee he brews and every product he creates. A licensed coffee Q grader,  he shared to us that afternoon how his love affair with coffee began. It was so touching that it got me teary-eyed because it hit home...