TIM eMagazine Volume 3 Issue 11 | Page 47

TIM eMagazine Vol.3 Issue 11 I n a bid to better serve its growing roster of Chinese clients through the convenience of e-commerce, Duty Free Philippines (DFP) now allows them to via WeChat and Allpay, two of China’s fast-growing mobile applications. This ‘partnership of innovation’ was a result from a memorandum of agreement forged between DFP and the two Chinese mobile app firms who were designated as the official service providers in all DFP shops nationwide. Inking the agreement were Henry Diaz, President of Smart Pay Equicom, which represents AllPay, Self-serve 58 Board of Director Robert Yupangco for We Chat and Vicente Anggala, Chief Operating Officer of DFP. The numbers themselves also speak for brighter, as well as longer-term growth prospects:  700 to 800 million Duty Free Philippines celebrated Chinese Lunar Year of the Pig 2019 at Duty Free Luxe, Pacific Drive, MOA Complex branch. In photo si Mr. Tomasito G. Umali, Tourism Attache of the Department of Tourism in Beijing making his wish for the 2019 Credit: Philip Ortaleza 47