{"id":6401,"date":"2016-06-21T13:58:16","date_gmt":"2016-06-21T05:58:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/?p=6401"},"modified":"2016-06-21T13:58:16","modified_gmt":"2016-06-21T05:58:16","slug":"uniqlo-bags-top-foreign-brand-retailer-award-from-dti-and-pra","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/2016\/06\/21\/uniqlo-bags-top-foreign-brand-retailer-award-from-dti-and-pra\/","title":{"rendered":"Uniqlo bags top foreign brand retailer award from DTI and PRA"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\">The wave of international brands is indeed upon us as Japanese clothing brand Uniqlo won at the 19<sup>th<\/sup> Outstanding Filipino Retailers &amp; Shopping Centers of the Year (OFR-SCY) Awards.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-6402\" src=\"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2016\/06\/logo-1024x1019.png\" alt=\"logo\" width=\"500\" height=\"498\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><em>UNIQLO WINS BIG. The Philippine Retailers Association (PRA) recognized Uniqlo as the best in the Large Foreign Brand Retailer category. Logo from <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/commons.wikimedia.org\/wiki\/File:UNIQLO_logo.svg\"><em>Wikimedia Commons<\/em><\/a><em>.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\">Uniqlo bested other foreign brands as it bagged the award for Foreign Brand Retailer in the large category. Uniqlo has been in the country since 2013 and has been on a surge thanks to its quality products sold at affordable prices.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\">SM Megamall was elevated to the OFR-SCY Hall of Fame as one of the country\u2019s pioneers in the Filipino fascination for malls. The SM Group likewise led the way at the 19<sup>th<\/sup> OFR-SCY, with several of its subsidiaries being elevated to the Hall of Fame in their respective categories. These include the following: <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\">\u2022 Surplus Shop \u2013 Large Fashion Apparel<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\">\u2022 Pet Express \u2013 Medium Specialty Retailer<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\">\u2022 SM Hypermarket \u2013 Hypermarket category<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\">\u2022 Save More \u2013 Supermarket category<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\">Ace Hardware also received an award in the Foreign Brand Specialty Retail \u2013 Home Improvement Center category.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\">The Philippine Retailer\u2019s Association seeks to recognize successful Filipino retailers every year at their OFR-SCY awards. The Shopping Centers of the Year category was added in 2002 to recognize the role played by the country\u2019s shopping centers in promoting growth and development of the local retail industry.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\"><em>\u00a0<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\"><em>Source:<\/em> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.philstar.com\/headlines\/2016\/06\/18\/1594097\/sm-megamall-elevated-pra-awards-hall-fame\"><em>The Philippine Star<\/em><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The wave of international brands is indeed upon us as Japanese clothing brand Uniqlo won at the 19th Outstanding Filipino Retailers &amp; Shopping Centers of the Year (OFR-SCY) Awards. &nbsp; UNIQLO WINS BIG. The Philippine Retailers Association (PRA) recognized Uniqlo as the best in the Large Foreign Brand Retailer category. Logo from Wikimedia Commons. &nbsp; Uniqlo bested other foreign brands as it bagged the award for Foreign Brand Retailer in the large category. Uniqlo has been in the country since 2013 and has been on a surge thanks to its quality products sold at affordable prices. SM Megamall was elevated to the OFR-SCY Hall of Fame as one of the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":6402,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6401","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-current-events"],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2016\/06\/logo-e1466488571153.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6401","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6401"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6401\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6403,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6401\/revisions\/6403"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6402"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6401"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6401"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6401"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}