Robinsons Retail Group and Robina Farms continue to back the UP Fighting Maroons
The University
of the Philippines (UP) Fighting Maroons will continue to get valuable support
from their most loyal and staunchest supporters, the Robinsons Retail Group and
Universal Robina Corporation’s Agro Industrial Group (URC-AIG), as they
continue their build-up for the upcoming UAAP season and beyond. They officially
renewed their partnership recently with Robinsons Retail Holdings, Inc. President
and CEO Robina Gokongwei-Pe, and URC-AIG Group Business Unit General Manager Vincent
Henry Go, and UP Fighting Maroons Team Manager Agaton Uvero and Head Coach Bo
Perasol signing the Memorandum of Agreement at the UP Executive House in
Diliman, Quezon City.
Robina Gokongwei-Pe,
a UP alumna and avid backer of the Fighting Maroons involved Robinsons
Supermarket and Handyman as Fighting Maroons supporters in 2010. Even as UP went
winless and won only a total of three games in four seasons (2010-2013), Robina
and her group stuck it out with the country’s premier state university in its
quest back to relevancy in the field of sports.
More recently,
Universal Robina Corporation’s Agro- Industrial Group, through its premium farm
products unit Robina Farms, was added to the companies that threw its support
behind the Fighting Maroons.
“We firmly
believe that the UP Fighting Maroons shares the same values as us, such as
passion for excellence and loyalty to our stakeholders. As we renew our
official support for the men’s basketball team, we want them to continue to
imbibe the same things that our company lives by as they seek to surpass last
year’s achievement. This upcoming UAAP Season 82, it would be another great
privilege to stand by this team together with the whole UP community. Hoping to
exemplify ISKOs values of honor and excellence in every endeavor” said Vincent
Henry Go of AIG’s Robina Farms.
“UP’s run last
year is proof that everything is possible,” said Universal Robina Corporation –
Agro Industrial Group’s Marketing Director Jonathan Diño. “Hopefully, this
year’s team will build on what Batch 81 started and bring home the UAAP
Championship for the first time since ’86. It’s UP’s time! They should take it.
They deserve it.”
“We’re always
grateful for all the support we have received from our alumni, especially from
Ms. Gokongwei and her group of companies, who have been with us through our ups
and downs. This team knows what it’s like to be at the bottom, to lack basic necessities
like food and allowances. We are thankful for the faith and loyalty of the Robinsons
Retail Group,” said UP head coach Bo Perasol.
Also present
at the signing besides Robina Gokongwei-Pe and Vincent Henry Go were Willy Co
(Handyman Vice Chairman), Jody Gadia (Robinsons Supermarket Managing Director),
Stanley Co (Handyman Group General Manager), Katherine Yu (Daiso General
Manager), Agnes Rafinan (TGP General Manager), Abet Liuson (TGP AVP – Supply Chain),
Dr. Florante Palabrica (Robina Farms Farm Operations Director), and Jonathan
Dino (Robina Farms Marketing Manager).
The Fighting
Maroons fresh from their Championship run in Taiwan’s Buddha’s Light International
Association (BLIA) Cup coupled with offseason trainings in Las Vegas and Japan,
look to give back to their supporters in Season 82.
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