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Next Big Food Entrepreneur '13

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Did you miss your luck in last year's food competition? Here's your much awaited chance! For those interested to succeed and have their own food business, reserve a slot today for Solane's Next Big Food Entrepreneur 2013. You may enter as individual or with a group. To qualify, prepare your best dish good for 10-12 people. Get shortlisted to the next round where you will go through a series of  classes about various business disciplines. In addition, you will be granted a 2-month food selling period at the Mercato Centrale market every daytime (Saturday/Sunday Morning) and nighttime (Friday/Sunday Midnight Mercato) for 2 weeks. Plus, additional 4 weeks selling period during nighttime at Soderno Friday/Saturday markets. One thing, though, you must use Solane LPG for on-site cooking for the entire food selling period. This stage will give you a chance to refine and improve your products/services and food taste, quality, and menu. Lastly, submit your business plan to be judged by a panel. Only 1 winner (either individual or group) will receive P100,000 cash-tax FREE, a 6-month rent-FREE stall in Mercato or Soderno (your choice), and be featured in Entrepreneur and Yummy Magazines.

Contest Requirements:
  • Open to all amateur and professional food entrepreneurs
  • Local residents, 18 years old and above
  • Teams composed of 3 persons who possess the abovementioned qualifications
Contest Mechanics:
  1. Reserve a slot from any scheduled Food Tasting dates by sending your name, short description of your dish concept, email address, contact number, and desired time in a short brown envelope labeled "Solane's Next Big Food Entrepreneur Challenge 2013 Entry"
  2. Two (2) Ways To Submit
    • Snail Mail/Express Mail/Hand-Carry Mail
      • In-Magazine Promos, Summit Media/7th Flr. Robinsons Cybergate Center Tower 3, Pioneer St., Mandaluyong CIty
    • Fax
      • 451-8888 local 1074
  3. Contest Process
    • Step 1: Food Taste Test
      • Along with 2x2 pictures of your team members, submit a printout presentation of your profile and food business concept
      • Prepare samples of any dish from your food business menu for ten (10) to twelve (12) persons
      • Food samples must be cooked and ready for immediate consumption
      • All food samples shall be judged on the spot
      • The panel shall choose twenty (20) finalists who will move on to the next round
    • Step 2: Food Selling
      • You will undergo a series of entrepreneurship classes in various business disciplines (marketing, finance & accounting, food/restaurant management) courtesy of Entrepreneur Philippines Magazine editors
      • You will be granted a 2-month food selling period at the Mercato Centrale market every daytime (Saturday/Sunday Morning) and nighttime (Friday/Sunday Midnight Mercato) for 2 weeks. While you have 4 weeks selling period during nighttime at Soderno Friday/Saturday markets. This will give you a chance to refine and improve your products/services and food taste, quality, and menu
      • You must use Solane LPG for on-site cooking for the entire food selling duration
    • Step 3: Submission of Business Plan
      • After the 2-month selling period, you are required to submit three (3) copies of your business plan
      • Business plan requirements:
        • Printed on a letter size paper (8.5 x 11 inches)
        • Times New Roman font, 1.5 spaced
        • Should not exceed ten (10) pages
        • Fifteen (15) minute PowerPoint presentation summarizing your findings from your 2-month food selling
  4. Judging Criteria
    • Food Taste Test
      • 25% Originality
      • 25% Yumminess
      • 25% Presentation
      • 25% Marketability
    • Business Plan
      • 25% Creativity
      • 25% Profitability
      • 25% Operational efficiency 
      • 25% Marketing
  5. View complete contest mechanics
Contest Period:
  • Slot reservation period - May 27 - June 25, 2013, Monday-Friday, 10AM-5PM
  • Taste test days - June 27 & 28, 2013, 4PM-6PM
    • Summit Media Office, 6th Flr., Robinsons Cybergate Center Tower 3, Pioneer St., Mandaluyong CIty
  • Food selling period - July  - September 8, 2013
  • Business Plan presentation and judging - September 12, 2013, 4PM
Contest Prize:
  • One (1) winner (Individual/Team) of:
    • P100,000 CASH (tax FREE)
    • 6-month rent-free stall in Mercato or Soderno (your choice)
    • Feature in Entrepreneur and Yummy Magazines
Upside
  • CASH prize
  • Opportunity to start your own business
Downside
  • Stages and competition process are long and tiring
  • Prizes are non-transferable and non-convertible to cash
For more info, log on to entrepreneur.com.ph , email at foodentrepreneur@yahoo.com or call 451-8888 local 1072

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McCaf� Meet Up & Win A Trip

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Love your coffee? Time to share it with a friend and you both might win exciting prizes in the McCafé Meet Up & Win A Trip promo. First, you must like McDonald PH's FB page then go to McCafé Meet up tab. Choose among your FB friends who you want to meet up at any McDonald's branch nationwide. Don't forget to take snapshots of you and your companion enjoying your McCafé. Upload it online to be eligible in the raffle draw. You can also invite and upload as many friends and photos as you can for more chances of winning a Samsung Galaxy S4 in the Regular Draw or a trip for 2 to Sydney, Australia in the Grand Draw.

Promo Requirements:
  • Open to local citizens with Facebook accounts, 18 years old and above
  • Purchase of any McCafe Brewed Coffee
Promo Mechanics:
  1. Log on to and like McDonald Philippines Facebook Fanpage and register at the McCafe Meet up tab
  2. Entry Guidelines
    • Choose one person from your Facebook friends whom you want to meet up with at a McDonald's restaurant here in the country
    • Wait for the meet up notification on your Facebook
    • After your friend confirms the meet up, you will then receive an email from McDonald's PH containing a buy one, take one electronic coupon for any qualified McCafe Brewed Coffee valid at any McDonald's branch nationwide
    • On your meet up, take a photo of you and your friend at any McDonald's branch holding a cup of any qualified McCafe drink
    • Picture size must not exceed 2MB
  3. Upload the photo in the McCafe Meetup tab. This will be your official entry for the raffle
  4. Qualified McCafe Brewed Coffee
    • 12 oz Premium Roast Coffee
    • Iced Coffee (Regular and Vanilla)
    • Coffee Float
  5. Invite and upload as many friends and photos as you can during the promo period
  6. Entries that do not meet the specified cut-off for a certain draw will automatically be part of the next draw
  7. All entries are eligible to win the Grand Draw. Winners of the regular draw can still win the Grand Draw
  8. Winners for the regular draw can only win once and will be eligible to win again for subsequent draws for weekly winners
  9. View complete promo mechanics
Promo Period: May 18 - July 12, 2013 
  • Electronic Coupon Validity: Until July 12, 2013
  • Raffle Draw Dates:
    • 1st Draw (Week 1 & 2)
      • Period Covered: May 18 - May 31, 2013
      • Draw Date: June 1, 4PM
      • Announcement of winners: June 2, 2013
    • 2nd Draw (Week 3 & 4)
      • Period Covered: June 1 - 14, 2013
      • Draw Date: June 15, 4PM
      • Announcement of winners: June 16, 2013
    • 3rd Draw (Week 5 & 6)
      • Period Covered: June 15 - June 28, 2013
      • Draw Date: June 29, 4PM
      • Announcement of winners: June 30, 2013
    • 4th Draw (Week 7 & 8)
      • Period Covered: June 29 - July 12, 2013
      • Draw Date: July 13, 4PM
      • Announcement of winners: July 14
    • Grand Draw
      • Period Covered: May 18 - July 12, 2013\
      • Draw Date: July 13, 4PM
      • Announcement of winners: July 14
Promo Prize:
  • Grand Draw - Trip for 2 to Sydney, Australia inclusive of
    • 5D/4N accommodation with meals
    • Round trip plane ticket from Philippines to Sydney, Australia and vice versa
    • US $1,000 pocket money
  • Regular Draw - Samsung Galaxy S4
Upside
Downside
  • In the even that both are found not eligible to travel, the prize is forfeited
  • All photos submitted will automatically be McDonald PH's property
For more info, log on to facebook.com/McDo.ph

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Escape To Paris Promo

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Let your bags and shoes take you to the capital city of France in Escape to Paris promo brought by Parisian and Preview Magazine. For every single-receipt spent in Parisian shoes and/or bags in any SM Dep't Store nationwide, you will be entitled to one (1) raffle entry. Surrender your receipt to obtain a promo code. Enter this promo code as you register on the promo microsite. Submit as many entries as you can for more chances of your name being drawn to win a trip for two (2) to Paris to witness the making of Preview's November 2013 Travel supplement. This includes roundtrip economy class air-ticket, airport transfers, accommodation in a twin-sharing room, and city tour in Musée du Louvre, Bateaux Parisiens River Cruise, Tours de Notre-Dame and Arc de Triomphe. In addition, terminal fees and food allowances shall be provided  by Summit Media on a daily basis.


Promo Requirements:
  • Open to all female Preview readers and fans of Parisian Shoes & Bags Facebook page
  • ages 19 – 55 years old, with existing Philippine passports valid until September 2014
  • Minimum single receipt purchase of P2,000 worth of Parisian shoes and/or bags
Promo Mechanics:
  1. Buy and make a minimum P2,000 single-spend transaction of Parisian shoes and/or bags in any SM Department Store nationwide within the purchase/promo period
  2. Entry Guidelines
    • Surrender the receipt to the Parisian-Preview Escape to Paris Promo redemption booth on the day of purchase to acquire the promo code required in submitting an entry. One (1) promo code is equivalent to one (1) raffle entry
    • Log on to the Parisian-Preview Escape to Paris promo microsite found in stylebible.ph/escapetoparis
    • Log on to and like Parisian Shoes & Bags Facebook page
    • Fill out the online registration form and enter the promo code
  3. You can submit multiple entries within the promo period
  4. All entries will be pooled and raffled off electronically
  5. The winner will be announced in Style Bible Escape to Paris website and Parisian Shoes & Bags Facebook page
  6. View complete promo mechanics
Promo Period: June 1 - July 31, 2013 11:59PM
  • Raffle draw - August 1, 2013
  • Travel date - September 20-24, 2013 (subject to change with prior notification)
Promo Prize:
  • Trip for two (2) to Paris to witness the making of Preview's November 2013 Travel supplement inclusive of:
    • Roundtrip economy class air-ticket
    • Airport transfers
    • Accommodation in a twin-sharing room
    • City tour (Musée du Louvre, Bateaux Parisiens River Cruise, Tours de Notre-Dame and Arc de Triomphe)
    • Note: Terminal fees and food allowances shall be provided per diem by Summit Media
Upside
  • Online submission
  • Multiple entries allowed
  • Trip to Paris!
  • Summit Media shall pay 20% tax for prizes exceeding P10,000
  • Prizes are transferable but are not convertible to cash
  • Summit Media will take charge in processing the winner's and the companion's visa, plane tickets, and itinerary upon submission of travel requirements
Downside
  • Minimum of P2,000 single-spend transaction
For more info, log on to stylebible.ph/escapetoparis or facebook.com/ParisianShoesAndBags

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FREE Freedom Concert

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Celebrate independence day (June 12, 2013) with a FREE Freedom Concert at Araneta Center. OPM bands Join The Club and Tanya Markova will rock the night starting 5:30PM onwards. On the other hand, for those near SM Southmall, you can get to watch Bamboo in his concert also on June 12 starting 7PM at the Food Street Parking. To get a ticket, you need to spend P1,000 single or accumulated worth of receipts. Seats are fist come first served. Although it's not a FREE concert, it's still a worthwhile deal.

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18th French Film Festival

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Here's another reason for you to enjoy the start of the second half of this year. Together, let us celebrate the passion for cinema shared by both France and our country in the 18th French Film Festival. A roster of great films await the moviegoers. These include What's In A Name?, Camille Rewinds, Rust and Bone, The Dandelions, and Cycling With Moliere. That's 5 films in 4 days! Since both French and Philippine cinema are alike in making films centering in family and humor themes, I'm sure everyone will enjoy all of the movies in store. Admission is FREE so come to Greenbelt 3, Cinema 3, Ayala Center at least 2 hours before the screening schedule to guarantee your seat.


Synopsis:

Le Prenom (What's In A Name?)
  • Vincent, successful in his forties, will soon be a Dad, and is invited to dinner at his sister's place Elisabeth, with his brother in law, and Claude a childhood friend. While waiting for Anna, his wife, they tease him about his eminent fatherhood and when they ask him what name he plans to give his first born, his reply brings family into chaos.
Camille Redouble (Camille Rewinds)
  • Camille was sixteen years old when she met Eric. They fell madly in love and had a daughter, 25 years later, Eric is leaving Camille for a younger woman. That's New Year's Eve, and Camille suddenly finds herself back in her past. She is sixteen again and has returned to her parents, her girlfriends, her childhood and Eric. Will she flee and try to change the course of their lives? Will she fall in love with him again, even though she knows their story will end?
De Rouille Et D'Os (Rust and Bone)
  • It begins in the north of France. Ali finds work as a bouncer at a local nightclub. After breaking up a fight one evening, he meets Stephanie, a beautiful, self-confident woman. They spend the night together. The next day he leaves her his number. But she is a princess and he is a poor fellow. Stephanie is a killer whale trainer at the local Marineland. After a terrible accident one day, Ali gets an unexpected phone call from Stephanie. When he sees her again she is in a wheelchair. She has lost both her legs and her dreams. Without pity, without compassion, Ali will simply help her live again.
Du Vent Dans Mes Mollets (The Dandelions)
  • Stuck between her parents, who smother her with love, and constant blunders, nine-year-old Rachel counts the minutes separating her from freedom. Until the day her path crosses that of intrepid Valerie
Alceste A Bicyclette (Cycling With Moliere)
  • A once great actor, Serge Tanneur (Fabrice Luchini), has retired from the limelight. Too much pressure meant that one day, he simply decided he would act no more. For the past three years, he has lived in solitude on the Ile de Re, spending his time cycling through the swept landscape. With the play's producer, Gauthier's agent and his lover all arriving on the island at the weekend, the pressure is on Serge to make up his mind. Is he merely toying with Gauthier, or does he really intend to take to the stage once more?
Promo Mechanics:
  1. Log on to ambafrance-ph.org to view the screening schedules
  2. Rush to Greenbelt 3, Cinema 3, Ayala Center Makati City at least two (2) hours before the screening time on the scheduled movie dates to guarantee your seat
  3. Watch and enjoy as many films as you can!
Promo Period: June 6 - June 9, 2013
  • June 6
    • What's In a Name? - 9PM (By invitation only)
  • June 7
    • The Dandelions - 4PM
    • Rust and Bone - 6:30PM
    • Camille Rewinds - 9PM
  • June 8
    • What's In A Name? - 4PM
    • Cycling With Moliere - 6:30PM
    • Rust and Bone - 9PM
  • June 9
    • Camille Rewinds - 4PM
    • The Dandelions - 6:30PM
    • Cycling With Moliere - 9PM
Promo Prize:
  • FREE French Films
Upside
  • Watch FREE films!
Downside
  • None
For  more info, log on to ambafrance-ph.orgfacebook.com/pages/SCAC-Manille, or email at frenchfilmfest@gmail.com. You may also call at 0915-8053869.

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