MANILA – Enterprise Asia – the world-class award-giving body honoring business leaders who have shown outstanding performance in developing successful businesses within the region – recognized Vibal Group of Com-panies Chairperson Esther Vibal as one of the country’s Outstanding Entrepreneurs at the Asia Pacific Entre-preneurship Awards (APEA). Her being an enduring model of tenacity, perseverance, and innovation in the educational print and publishing industry deemed her worthy of this global award.
With its humble beginnings as a publishing house in 1953, the Vibal Group of Companies has been providing Filipino schools with high quality textbooks and various supplementary reading materials. The emergence of digital technology was a change welcomed by the Vibal Group. Instead of drifting along the current, they embraced the challenge of going against it by becoming pioneers in introducing the first e-reader developed by Filipino software engineers to launching an e-commerce bookstore called Vibe Bookstore. Today, Vibal Group has transitioned from a strictly publishing business into a complete end-to-end technology solutions provider for education, enterprise, and government.
With her various accomplishments as a writer, educator, and philanthropist, Esther Vibal is now looking forward to bringing the Vibal Group internationally as they collaborate with renowned industry leaders in technology and edu-cation. As a result, she finds a deeper sense of fulfillment in scaling heights and challenging the status quo within the industry to be able to provide the best solutions to customers.
For more information about the Asia Pacific En-trepreneurship Awards (APEA) and full list of 2014 winners,visit www.enterpriseasia.org/.
In this photo: Esther Vibal receiving the 2014 Outstanding Entrepreneur Award during the recently concluded APEA.
