Sunday, September 16, 2012
?Touching lives beyond profit? is a mantra Philip N. Tan lives by. He is the current president of the Mandaue Chamber of Commerce and Industry (MCCI), and is the chairman, president and chief executive officer of Wellmade Global Holdings, which he founded in 1995.
A self-made man, Tan had worked his way through college, finishing BS in business administration, major in marketing, at the University of San Carlos. He worked as a gas station attendant, became its manager, after which he worked as a salesman for his family?s Han Marketing. He set up Wellmade Motor and Industrial Sales in 1988, the year he acquired Filipino citizenship. This he expanded in 1995 to become Wellmade Motors and Development Corporation, offering engine rebuilding, machine shop, diesel injection, pump calibration, fusion welding, overhauling, precision gear hobbing fabrication and other machine engineering services.
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Not being an engineer when he entered into this type of business, Tan attended formal trainings and seminars related to his field of business here and abroad. He also partnered with schools like the Center for Industrial Technology and Enterprise, the Mary Help of Christian School, and Don Bosco Technical School. This affiliation has allowed him to get the right personnel for the jobs in his company. From his Tipolo, Mandaue, plant, he has since branched out to Cebu City, in Lapu-Lapu St., with two branches in Talisay City. And now, he is into franchising, with a dream of having 10 franchises here and, why not, abroad.
The first franchise is in Davao. It is a franchise where Tan sets up the business for the franchisee, providing him with the machinery; setting it up, providing the skilled labor and the management systems, as well as the technology, the software; and, most important, the Wellmade brand of excellence in its workmanship. His second franchisee is in Selangor, Malaysia. After franchising, he is looking forward to making all the machines he needs in his plant.
Wellmade is an ISO-certified metalworking company, which has received many awards from government and civic associations. But boss ?with a heart? Tan is more proud of the company?s mission of good governance and corporate social responsibility. He challenges his workforce to give their best, ?with corresponding profit sharing in achieving agreed goals and objectives given every month.? Because he is a boss with a heart, five percent of his total work force is composed of persons with disabilities (PWD), like Francisco Armenion. He was born without legs and hands. Tam met him at a graduation in a vocational school in Labangon.
Francisco is now a machine operator, earning equal pay with other machine operators in the company. Aside from PWDs, Tan had a study-now-pay-forwards program in Minglanilla, Davao and Zamboanga?a program of skills and leadership training for the children of returning rebels, and support for the education of indigenous peoples, particularly the Higaonan tribe of Bukidnon.
For Tan, corporate social responsibility is a must for all his employees, starting from their training days. And for him, his corporate social responsibility activities are his ?relaxation.? When he needs to take a breather, this is what he looks into.
And being current president of MCCI, (Mandaue City) will surely be given a lot of his attention, especially as the city is working toward the equivalent of a municipality ISO: the Performance Governance System, which will mean transparency in government dealings and finance, and ease in doing business with the city of Mandaue.
In 2008, Tan received from the Cebu Chamber of Commerce and Industry the Socially Responsible Entrepreneur of the Year award. He certainly deserves that, not for just the year 2009 but all the years of his entrepreneurial endeavors.
Published in the Sun.Star Cebu newspaper on September 17, 2012.
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Source: http://www.sunstar.com.ph/cebu/lifestyle/2012/09/16/touching-lives-beyond-profit-243178
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