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Array ( [results] => Array ( [0] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 275769 [Title] => Bench Body: From RP to PRC [Summary] => Underwear is a powerful thing. For something kept hidden, given a conventional setting (barring Madonnas 80s principles and Justice League dress codes), it has become one of mans biggest necessities. We find it difficult to get on a day without it. Underwear can entice, ignite desire, and boost ones ego. It can even fuel a fire in the literal sense as it did when women suffragists, earlier in the century, threw their bras into a bonfire to assert womens rights. [DatePublished] => 2005-04-29 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 134562 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1123191 [AuthorName] => Ana G. Kalaw [SectionName] => Young Star [SectionUrl] => young-star [URL] => ) [1] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 205705 [Title] => The united colors of Bench [Summary] => BORACAY, Aklan The clicking of cameras, the roar of bancas and tricycles. Mutterings in French, Mandarin, English and Tagalog. Blue cloudless skies, clear waters, orange-pink sunsets, white sands. Salty air mingled with swirls of smoke from Gauloise Blondes and Marlboro reds. Skin colors changing from fair to tan to sunkissed red.
Bench has arrived in Boracay.
[DatePublished] => 2003-05-11 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1645237 [AuthorName] => Paula C. Nocon [SectionName] => Sunday Lifestyle [SectionUrl] => sunday-life [URL] => ) [2] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 181563 [Title] => Bench goes to China [Summary] => Theres no other way but to go global!"
So says Bench proprietor Ben Chan. And what this retail giant says, he does. If Ben Chan builds it, the shoppers will come.
Next month, Bench, the countrys top clothing and lifestyle store, shall open a new branch to mark another phenomenon in the stores phenomenal 15-year history. It is its biggest step to date, into the biggest market in the world today.
Bench is going to China.
[DatePublished] => 2002-10-27 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1645237 [AuthorName] => Paula C. Nocon [SectionName] => Sunday Lifestyle [SectionUrl] => sunday-life [URL] => ) [3] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 181566 [Title] => When Ben met Ronnie and Lu and Melvin and Giant and ND [Summary] => Melvin Chua is head of InkPak Communications, Shanghai, and marketing director of WestEast magazine. Born in the Philippines but raised in Canada and US, Ivy Leaguer Melvin was managing director of McCann Erickson China for six years before starting InkPak. He heads the creative hurricane that will catapult Bench to its niche in the vast Chinese market.
[DatePublished] => 2002-10-27 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => Sunday Lifestyle [SectionUrl] => sunday-life [URL] => ) ) )
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Array ( [results] => Array ( [0] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 275769 [Title] => Bench Body: From RP to PRC [Summary] => Underwear is a powerful thing. For something kept hidden, given a conventional setting (barring Madonnas 80s principles and Justice League dress codes), it has become one of mans biggest necessities. We find it difficult to get on a day without it. Underwear can entice, ignite desire, and boost ones ego. It can even fuel a fire in the literal sense as it did when women suffragists, earlier in the century, threw their bras into a bonfire to assert womens rights. [DatePublished] => 2005-04-29 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 134562 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1123191 [AuthorName] => Ana G. Kalaw [SectionName] => Young Star [SectionUrl] => young-star [URL] => ) [1] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 205705 [Title] => The united colors of Bench [Summary] => BORACAY, Aklan The clicking of cameras, the roar of bancas and tricycles. Mutterings in French, Mandarin, English and Tagalog. Blue cloudless skies, clear waters, orange-pink sunsets, white sands. Salty air mingled with swirls of smoke from Gauloise Blondes and Marlboro reds. Skin colors changing from fair to tan to sunkissed red.
Bench has arrived in Boracay.
[DatePublished] => 2003-05-11 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1645237 [AuthorName] => Paula C. Nocon [SectionName] => Sunday Lifestyle [SectionUrl] => sunday-life [URL] => ) [2] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 181563 [Title] => Bench goes to China [Summary] => Theres no other way but to go global!"
So says Bench proprietor Ben Chan. And what this retail giant says, he does. If Ben Chan builds it, the shoppers will come.
Next month, Bench, the countrys top clothing and lifestyle store, shall open a new branch to mark another phenomenon in the stores phenomenal 15-year history. It is its biggest step to date, into the biggest market in the world today.
Bench is going to China.
[DatePublished] => 2002-10-27 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1645237 [AuthorName] => Paula C. Nocon [SectionName] => Sunday Lifestyle [SectionUrl] => sunday-life [URL] => ) [3] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 181566 [Title] => When Ben met Ronnie and Lu and Melvin and Giant and ND [Summary] => Melvin Chua is head of InkPak Communications, Shanghai, and marketing director of WestEast magazine. Born in the Philippines but raised in Canada and US, Ivy Leaguer Melvin was managing director of McCann Erickson China for six years before starting InkPak. He heads the creative hurricane that will catapult Bench to its niche in the vast Chinese market.
[DatePublished] => 2002-10-27 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => Sunday Lifestyle [SectionUrl] => sunday-life [URL] => ) ) )
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