January 24, 2024
COMCO SEA, Century Tuna receive the globally acclaimed Platinum Award from MarCom Awards in the USA
July 28, 2023
COMCO Mundo ignites epic 7 years celebration with staff awaydays in Greece, movie event with media, APAC agency award win, and office expansion in Manila and Dubai
Global award-winning communications group COMCO Mundo League of Enterprises marked its epic 7th anniversary with a milestone staff awaydays in Greece, a special media movie event, a major APAC award win, and the expansion of its Manila and Dubai office.
The COMCO Mundo Awaydays in Greece and Singapore
Staying true to its commitment to nurture talent through diverse cultural experiences, COMCO Mundo’s staff awaydays, after Japan in 2018 and Australia in 2019, had the team flying to Europe! Mythical ruins and cultural sites greeted the COMCO Mundo employees on the sunny shores of Greece as the COMCO Mundo team explored the country that scholars deemed the land of the gods, the cradle of Western civilization, and the birthplace of democracy.
Ancient legends came to life over their week-long stay with stops at the Acropolis and the Ancient Agora, where one could imagine the hustle and bustle of Athenian citizens as they shopped, traded, and worshipped among the remnants of the temples of their gods. Further exploration took the team to the Temple of Poseidon, the Greek God of the Sea, and to the idyllic Greek islands of Agistri, Aegina, Hydra, and Poros. The team also enjoyed a rendezvous with sea and sky with a swim in the Mediterranean. A quick stop in Singapore brought them face to face with another creature of fantasy – the Singapore Merlion at One Fullerton, before they capped their trip with a food feast and an iconic Singapore experience, tasting the culinary delights of this foodie capital at an iconic hawker centre, Lau Pa Sat.
The company also commemorated its 7th year with a movie night with its COMCOmigos, treating its valued media, blogger, influencer, content creator, and digital activator partners and friends to an evening of fun games and a screening of the blockbuster Marvel film Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 in Ayala Mall’s Glorietta 4 Cinema.
COMCO Mundo’s Movie Night with COMCOmigos featuring Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3
COMCO Mundo kickstarted the year with a team dinner in Tagaytay
These were certainly celebrations as the company also welcomes accolades and a bigger home for the COMCO Squadron both in Manila and Dubai.
COMCO SEA was once again recognized for its landmark people programs and campaigns as it took home the Medium Consultancy Award at the prestigious and highly coveted PRCA APAC (Public Relations and Communications Association Asia-Pacific) Awards 2023. The company was lauded for effective business results, community leadership, and innovation in its operations.
The COMCO Squadron celebrating the company’s PRCA APAC 2023 win
Meanwhile, COMCO Mundo League of Enterprises also recently unveiled the second phase of its office expansion on Ayala Avenue right at the heart of Makati City’s Central Business District. It houses the newly launched digital and integrated communications agency TARO AOX Inc., the group’s parent company COMCO Mundo League of Enterprises, the New PR and Smart Social unit COMCO Southeast Asia, and Southeast Asia’s regional publication SEA Wave Pop Culture Studio.
New COMCO Mundo headquarters in Makati City, Philippines
Meanwhile, COMCO Middle East & Africa is also enjoying meteoric growth, having successfully concluded the Middle East Film and Comic Con or MEFFC 2023 with record-breaking numbers and continuing to be the agency partner of choice of top leisure, hospitality, and food brands. They have also recently found their home at the prestigious address of Ibn Battuta Gate at Jebel Ali, Dubai.
The COMCO Middle East and Africa team based in Dubai, UAE
“It has certainly been an epic 7 years for us in COMCO as we’ve continued our meteoric growth in the Middle East & Africa, launched our digital and integrated communications agency in Southeast Asia, and expanded our offices on both shores to serve as the craftsmanship vessel for our new talents. What better way to commemorate these wins and our COMCO Squadron who has been with us in this journey than with overseas team travel,” shared Ferdinand Bondoy, COMCO Mundo Group Chief Executive Director and Lead Strategic Communications Counsel / Partner and Co-Founder.
“We invest in overseas team travel because we invest in our people. As storytellers, travel widens the team's perspective about the world and life in general; the shared discovery, journey, and experience strongly connects the team; and the one-of-a-kind immersion further cultivates our workplace culture.”
As its epic 7th celebration continues, COMCO Mundo looks forward to sharing more surprises, major announcements, and a big event in the last quarter of the year. To know more about COMCO Mundo and its initiatives, visit comcomundo.com. Follow them on social media: facebook.com/comcomundo on Facebook, linkedin.com/company/comcomundo, and @comco_mundo on Instagram.
About COMCO Mundo League of Enterprises
COMCO Mundo League of Enterprises is the parent company and umbrella group for all of COMCO’s existing and upcoming ventures and initiatives, a collective of agencies and programs dedicated to advancing the communications profession and related disciplines such as digital, media, advocacy, training, and education, and entrepreneurship, among others; to be a force for social change; to nurturing talent growth and workplace community culture; and to championing borderless collaboration. The COMCO Mundo League of Enterprises is comprised of COMCO Southeast Asia with network of affiliates in Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore, and Thailand, COMCO Middle East & Africa, TARO AOX Inc. Digital + Integrated Communications, SEA Wave Pop Culture Studio, Camp COMCO Mentorship Program and Alumni Society, and Citizen COMCO Advocacy Program.
COMCO been awarded PRCA APAC Medium Consultancy of the
Year in Asia Pacific, thrice as Agency
of the Year 2nd Runner-up at the IABC Quill Awards; Agency of the Year – Silver
Award at the ASEAN PR Excellence Awards; Finalist for Boutique PR Consultancy
of the Year at Campaign Asia Pacific’s PR Awards Asia, Marketing Interactive’s
PR Awards Asia-Pacific, and the global CIPR Excellence Awards; and 150 metals
from various local and international award-giving bodies.
July 14, 2023
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June 30, 2023
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April 2, 2023
COMCO Southeast Asia wins PR Consultancy of the Year in Asia-Pacific
March 23, 2023
COMCO Marks Epic 7 Years with the Launch of TARO AOX Digital + Integrated Communications
From a Disruptive PR Agency Start-Up to a Powerhouse Group of Communication Companies
In
just seven years, COMCO Southeast Asia, from being a trailblazing and
disruptive PR Agency start-up, has transformed into COMCO Mundo League of
Enterprises, a global award-winning powerhouse group of communication companies
and is now marking its seventh year with the official launch of TARO AOX
Digital + Integrated Communications.
TARO AOX Rises
TARO
AOX Digital + Integrated Communications is the newest addition to the COMCO
Mundo League of Enterprises, alongside COMCO Southeast Asia (SEA), COMCO Middle
East and Africa (MEA), and SEA Wave Pop Culture Studio, among others, and it
specializes on digital marketing, integrated communications, and technology and
digital PR. It also offers social media management, influencer marketing,
content marketing, digital activation, media planning and buying, video
storytelling, multimedia arts, virtual event staging, and website and platform
development.
TARO
AOX is already in full swing and has been servicing clients such as Samsung
Mobile, Sun Life Asia Service Center Philippines, Lamoiyan Corporation’s
Licealiz Anti Head Lice Shampoo, and APLGO.
COMCO Southeast Asia’s Epic 7th
Year
COMCO
SEA, the PR and events company of COMCO Mundo League of Enterprises, continues
to champion New PR and Smart Social and also offers services such as Events and
Activation, Branding, and Special Advertising Executions. The multi-awarded
agency continues to make waves in the region as it recently won inter-agency
pitches and acquired accounts such as Sony Philippines, Uratex Mattress, Uratex
Monoblock, Alaxan, Century Tuna, and LaLiga. COMCO SEA also continues to manage
a portfolio of highly regarded brands and organizations like Jobstreet, Remy Martin,
Teleperformance, AXA, European Union, Eastern Communications, ASEANA City,
Philusa Corporation, Babyflo Cotton, RHEA Generics, RHEA Vitamins, World
Vision, and WWF-Philippines.
COMCO
Southeast Asia is also gearing up for the prestigious and much coveted PRCA
APAC (Public Relation and Communications Association Asia-Pacific) Awards as it
has been cited as a regional finalist for the Medium Consultancy of the Year
Award; the PR / Communications Leader Award for Ferdinand L. Bondoy, the COMCO
Mundo League of Enterprises Group Chief Executive Director and Lead Strategic
Communications Counsel / Partner and Co-Founder; the Media Relations Award for
the Agency’s Meaningful Storytelling with COMCOmigos initiative; and the
Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Award for COMCO’s long-time client/brand
partner Teleperformance.
Established in 2021, COMCO Middle East and Africa led by its Managing Director / Partner and Co-Founder, Tricia Cusi-Jimenea, has successfully brought the COMCO brand into this market and has been regarded as among the major players in the region’s PR and marketing industry.
In a span of two years, the Agency has
serviced a total of 30 brands which includes Empire Entertainment, Middle East
Film & Comic Con, Metacon, Central Park, Dubai London Hospital, Shop
Electric Pawn, Ezra, Hyde and The Wizarding World in the Mall of Emirates, to
name a few.
An Industry Leader
COMCO
has a major role in the PR and Communications industry here in the Philippines,
in Asia-Pacific and across the globe. COMCO Mundo’s Ferdinand L. Bondoy is
currently serving as the Corporate Secretary and PR and Digital Committee Head
of the International Association of Business Communications (IABC) Philippines,
Regional Board Member as well as Workplace and Culture Committee Member of the
Public Relations & Communications Association Asia Pacific (PRCA APAC)
based in Singapore, and Online Events Head and Member of the Chartered
Institute of Public Relations (CIPR) International headquartered in the United
Kingdom.
“In just 7 years, we have already garnered 100
brands and 150 metals and have produced 110 graduates from our long-running and
award-winning Camp COMCO Mentorship Program. We thought we’ve already done it
all, but as they say, we’re just getting ready for the most exciting part. We
are empowered to do more and bigger things for the industry and with my great
team beside me, we are definitely up for the challenge. Our 10-year master plan
is just in its second phase and there’s still a lot of bigger things in the
pipeline, to be unveiled very soon,” stated Ferdinand L. Bondoy, COMCO Mundo League of
Enterprises Group Chief Executive Director and Lead Strategic Communications
Counsel / Partner and Co-Founder.
“As COMCO grows exponentially in its seventh
year, its success also means the growth of its people, a value that inspired
the company to create a benefits and compensation program upgrading for its
team which includes health benefits extended to dependents, wellness allowance,
leave conversion and acquired leaves for critical illness or long-term
hospitalization, group insurance, retirement fund, overseas team travel, stock
options, and partnership leadership opportunities, among others, which can be
considered as the most comprehensive in the industry,” shared Joan Icotanim-Maslang, COMCO Mundo
League of Enterprises Corporate Services Director and Comptroller / Partner.
To learn more about COMCO Southeast Asia,
visit comcosea.com. Follow them on social media: facebook.com/comco.southeastasia on Facebook, linkedin.com/company/comcosea,
and @comco_sea on both Instagram and Twitter.
To learn more about COMCO Mundo, go to comcomundo.com.
Follow them on social media: facebook.com/COMCOmundo on Facebook,
linkedin.com/company/comcomundo, and @comco_mundo on Instagram.
December 10, 2022
COMCO Southeast Asia appoints Head of Digital and ICOM together with Camp COMCO top graduates to beef up expansion
November 16, 2022
COMCO Mundo continues to make waves in Southeast Asia and the Middle East and Africa
COMCO Mundo, which recently
unveiled its newest global headquarters in the Philippines’ Makati Central
Business District, is the parent and umbrella
organization that houses trailblazing enterprises and ventures such as COMCO Southeast Asia (SEA), COMCO Middle East
& Africa (MEA), SEA Wave Pop Culture Studio, Citizen COMCO Advocacy
Program, COMCO Alumni Society, and TARO Digital AOX.
With affiliate network presence in Indonesia,
Malaysia, Singapore, and Thailand, COMCO Southeast Asia continues its thrust of meaningful storytelling as it bagged various
industry recognitions garnering a total of 140 awards from prestigious local,
regional, and international award-giving bodies since its inception in 2016. The
most recent wins and citations were
from Marketing Interactive Asia’s PR Awards Asia-Pacific, PRCA APAC Awards, Campaign
Asia Pacific’s PR Awards Asia, CIPR Global Excellence Awards, The Gold Standard
Awards, Asia-Pacific Tambuli Awards, Stevie Awards, and IABC (International
Association of Business Communicators) Quill Awards.
The Agency also continued to strengthen its
client portfolio for its 6th year, winning major accounts such as APL GO,
ASEANA City, AXA, European Union, Frit-Oh, Kone, Lalamove, MR. DIY, PHILUSA
Corporation together with its wide range of brands (Rhea Generics, Cleene
Alcohol, and Cotton, Cleene Clio, Babyflo Baby Care, and Love My Honey), Phinma
Education, Remy Martin, Skechers, and Uratex; and renewing clients Eastern
Communications, Lamoiyan Corporation, Jobstreet, LENOVO, Sunlife Asia Service
Center, Takeda, Teleperformance, World Vision, and WWF. From 2021 to 2022,
COMCO SEA grew its team by 61% and has a retention of 62%. Of its homegrown
talents who started as apprentices and associates, 44% have been promoted to supervisory
and management positions.
In the MEA region, COMCO Middle East & Africa continues to reap
success on its first year handling notable brands from various industries
including Belcanto and Eden at Dubai Opera, Central Park Towers, Electric Pawn
Shop, Global Educational Supplies & Solutions 2022, Hyde Hotel’s Katsuya
and Hudson Tavern, Nolte Küchen, Holiday Inn Science Park, Issei at Radisson
Damac Hills, Last Seen Live, Maison D’Vie, The Vault Real Estate, Tres Marias
Coffee and Yas Plaza Hotels. The game-changing agency is also responsible for
Empire Movies’ hottest premiers for the year including Bullet Train,
Brahmastra, The Woman King, Lyle Lyle Crocodile, and Where the Crawdads Sing.
It was also declared as the official PR agency of the Middle East Film and
Comic Con 2023 and Najah Abu Dhabi and Dubai 2022.
In addition, COMCO MEA, together with COMCO SEA, recently conducted property roadshows for Philippine property firm RLC Residences in Dubai and Abu Dhabi as among the group’s first of many synergy initiatives. The teams will continue to showcase its strength in cross-regional PR through its new client, EZRA COUTURE, a trailblazing UAE-based fashion house that has dressed royals and celebrities like Beyonce, Lady Gaga, Shakira, Nicole Scherzinger, Paris Hilton, Sonam Kapoor, Pia Wurtzbach and Heart Evangelista.
COMCO Mundo Group Chief Executive Director and Lead Strategic Communications Counsel / Partner and Co-Founder Mr. Ferdinand L. Bondoy bagged the Gold Award for the PR Champion of the Year (Agency) at the PR Awards 2022 in Asia Pacific of Marketing Interactive Asia. He was also recently elected to the Regional Board of PRCA APAC (Public Relations and Communications Association Asia-Pacific) based in Singapore, the only Filipino to be elected in the position. He was also appointed anew to be part of the London-based CIPR’s (Chartered Institute of Public Relations) International Committee and the Lead for Online Events, representing not only the Philippines but also Southeast Asia and the rest of Asia-Pacific. In the Philippines, Mr. Bondoy is also a Board Trustee of the International Association of Business Communicators (IABC) Philippines serving as Corporate Secretary and Chair of Digital and Public Relations Committee and Youth and Student Programs.
Meanwhile, Camp COMCO Mentorship Program, the groundbreaking and proprietary talent incubation initiative, industry linkage course, and apprenticeship platform of COMCO, is also opening its 19th Cycle in the last quarter of the year. For over 6 years, Camp COMCO has already produced 100 graduates from 18 cycles and received multiple recognition for its contribution to the industry.
As part of
its thanksgiving to all of its partners and supporters, COMCO Mundo also successfully
conducted the “Early Holiday Movie Night with COMCOmigos” attended by more than
250 media, bloggers, clients, industry colleagues, Camp COMCO Mentorship
Program alumni, and COMCO Mundo League staff. The activity was supported by
APLGO, Eastern Communications, Jobstreet, LENOVO, Mediplast, MR.DIY, Philusa
Corporation (Albatross, Cleene, and Mediplast), Starkaffea, and
Teleperformance.
“Amid threats and challenges to businesses, we
in COMCO Mundo League continue to thrive as we are driven by our goal to share
stories that connect, ideas that transform, and campaigns that make a
difference through our unique brand of Meaningful Storytelling. The year 2022 is
the time where we cultivated the seeds of our 10-year master plan and we are
looking forward to a more exciting new year as we continuously unfold the next
phase of our ventures. Thank you so much to our COMCOmigos, our friends in our
various publics for their unwavering support to COMCO all these years,” said
Mr. Ferdinand L. Bondoy.
To know more about COMCO Mundo, visit comcomundo.com. Follow them on social media: facebook.com/comcomundo
on Facebook, linkedin.com/company/comcomundo,
and @comco_mundo on Instagram.
November 8, 2022
COMCO Southeast Asia’s Group Chief Executive elected to global PR bodies PRCA APAC Regional Board and CIPR International Committee
COMCO Southeast Asia’s Group Chief Executive and Lead Strategic Communications Counsel / Partner and Co-Founder Mr. Ferdinand L. Bondoy has been elected to prestigious international PR industry groups, the Public Relations & Communications Association Asia Pacific (PRCA APAC) and the Chartered Institute of Public Relations (CIPR).