Benefits and Rates

Corporate membership is our premium service designed for senior executives of major corporations who require regular and timely access to the full range of business intelligence and peer group networking offered through the Philippine Business Leaders Forum, associate of Corporate Network, a service of the Economist Intelligence Unit. The membership package includes one primary and one secondary member plus a reasonable number of supplementary nominees who can serve as alternates at meetings.

Corporate Membership provides preferred access to all regular meetings of the Philippine Business Leaders Forum including:

• Executive Forum meetings, generally held on the third Wednesday of each month (2 places per meeting);
• CEO and CFO meetings; generally held on the first Thursday of each month (one place per meeting);
• Opportunities to participate in special workshops and focus groups;
• Other events as arranged by the Forum Secretariat.
  

Corporate Membership also provides access to an elite peer group throughout Asia Pacific and the international meeting programme run by Corporate Network. This consists of regular high-level meetings as published in the annual programme calendar as well as briefing papers designed to assist your business decision-making;

• Executive Forums: Both a primary and a secondary nominee from the senior corporate level are entitled to attend and participate in all executive forum meetings of the Philippines Business Leaders Forum and focus group activities and will receive all forum material published by the Secretariat. These nominees would normally be drawn from the CEO, CFO or vice presidential level of a major corporation.

• CEO/CFO Forums: The Primary nominee is entitled to attend all monthly CEO Forums;

Supplementary nominees can be placed on our mailing list and receive all e-mail publications and can attend executive forum meetings as alternates. There is no limit on the number of supplementary nominees who may be registered, subject although it is expected that they will be drawn from senior management level or the senior levels of middle management.

• In situations where more than 2 representatives from a company attend a meeting, a nominal charge is made for the third and subsequent attendees.

Guest Policy: Corporate members may bring guests to any forum meeting subject to payment of a nominal charge to cover the cost of refreshments and information materials.

Corporate Members have privileged access to a range of publications, analysis and briefing materials published by the Research Section of the Philippines Business Leaders Forum as well as selected material from Economist Intelligence Unit. This includes a complimentary subscription for each member to all electronic publications from the Forum:

• The Philippine Business Leaders Brief (published weekly) plus Monthly Executive Update;

• Executive Briefs, these are special Industry, sector and issue-related reports published by the Forum Research Department;

• Corporate Insights; publications written by the members themselves for other members and distributed by the Secretariat to other Corporate Network offices in Asia Pacific.

• Periodic Outlook Briefs - both from our own Research Department as well as material from Economist Intelligence Unit regional offices in Singapore and Hong Kong;

• Other publications at present in the planning stage.

• Membership also includes access to Philippines Forum research facilities for preparation of advocacy or position papers for submission to government;

• Opportunity for private briefings by the Forum Secretariat including preparation of customised briefing material (additional charges may apply);

• Annual Dinner for Corporate Members;

• Password access to the forum website and ability to download from our vast information archive free of charge.

• A complimentary copy of each Forum print publication for each nominee as well as a copy of the electronic Yearbook for each.

• Corporate listing in the on-line and hard copy business directories published by the Forum.

• Corporate banner advertisement on the Philippines Business Leader's Forum website and on the MCA virtual-asia.com website.

• Special members rates on advertising in Forum print publications including The Philippines Business Guide and the Philippines Business Directory.

• Access to Corporate Network activities throughout Asia and ability to attend meetings in other Asian centers (subject to prior notification and space availability) including the twice yearly regional outlook meetings held in Singapore.

• Preferential access to The Economist newspaper.

Membership Rates for Corporate Members

The corporate membership rate is PhP150,000 a year. Corporate membership is transferable.

Corporate Group Rates

Where there are several companies within a group of company within the Philippines and executives of more than one company within that same group wish to participate in the Philippines Forum/ Corporate Network, multiple memberships are available at 50 percent discount on the regular corporate membership rate for subsequent memberships beyond the first membership.

Accredited diplomatic missions and members of international organizations resident in the Philippines may receive a one-third discount on the rate applicable to corporate memberships.

The membership benefits for diplomatic missions and quasi diplomatic missions are the same as those applying to corporate members.