At A Glance

A 15th AIA FA Centre has been opened in the Supakarn Building in Klongsan district, Bangkok

AIA FA Centers provide intensive training course and “ are equipped with state-of-the-art technology to make them stand out over general training centres”, the company said.

“An outstanding feature of all AIA FA Centres is the distance learning platform (DLP), which will facilitate and connect every FA Centre across the country with the same standard of training courses, communication and information transmission,” the company said.

“The AIA FA Centre at Supakarn Building marks AIA’s success of establishing all 15 AIA FA Centres across the country by January 2018, reaffirming AIA commitment to penetrate to all areas in Thailand to provide Thai people with comprehensive and adequate life insurance protection.”

TC Development embarks on image revamp

TC Development is undertaking a revamp of its brand image.

Jirawat Kateseang, marketing director of TC Development, said: “TC Development is a leading real estate developer that has been established in Thailand almost 10 years now. The business has experienced a high rate of growth and owns various pieces of land in different areas of Bangkok. 

“The company has approached the market with developments targeting a mixture of customer groups and lifestyle aspirations among both Thai and foreign buyers, especially in the Asoke – Rama 9 area known as the New CBD (Central Business District). 

“We plan to continuously develop projects for the market and therefore we have revamped our brand image to reflect the modern lifestyles of our customers. Furthermore, TC Development is aiming to be a top of mind developer in offering high-end luxury accommodation, which is the background behind our description as the Luxury Life Curator - a real estate developer that brings international luxury lifestyle choices to Thailand.

“The new concept of TC Development’s rebranding represents an international lifestyle which matches our targets, including the new generation which focuses on high quality and the luxury living lifestyle itself with a reachable price rather than old norms relating property investment. This inspiration has led to the change in our corporate identity in terms of look and feel, hence we have adopted modern colors such as Matt Gold, Deep Sea, and Black and White. This signifies our growth and development of the company’s vision.”

iflix offers dedicated channel for children

iflix, an entertainment service for emerging markets, has launched a dedicated Kids Channel, “with an expanded selection of hundreds of top movies and TV series for children of all ages from many of the world’s most popular studios and brands”, the company said. It is available to both stream and download.

The channel will feature:

l Disney-Pixar Animation Studios – Inside Out, Finding Nemo, The Incredibles, Ratatouille

l Disney – Tomorrowland, Alice in Wonderland, The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, Big Hero 6, Brave, and Tangled

l Nickelodeon – Avatar: The Legend of Aang, iCarly, and The Thundermans

l Nick Jr. – Blue’s Clues, Wallykazam!, Blaze and the Monster Machines

“iflix also added family favourites such as Rango, The Adventures of Tintin, Upin & Ipin, Upin & Ipin: Jeng Jeng Jeng, and popular local hits from Cartoon Network including Adventure Time, Ben 10, The Amazing World of Gumball, Clarence, Regular Show, We Bare Bears, Uncle Grandpa, Steven Universe, The Powerpuff Girls and Mighty Magiswords to its Kids library,” the company said.

“iflix Group chief content officer Sean Carey said: “Kids is a core segment we are focusing on this 2018. User metrics reveals increasing and sustained engagement. We have seen tremendous growth in usage stats, with a 74 per cent increase in session times on kids content including a 630 per cent jump in minutes viewed in 2017 compared to 2016.

“ We are thrilled that both our young and young-at-heart users can now easily discover and enjoy some of the world’s best studios, brands and titles for kids – unscheduled, and on-demand.”

Ichitan launches project to aid drinks move

Ichitan Group has created a so-called new generation project, Ichitan Experience Academy, in preparation to enter the global beverage industry.

After the official launch of Asean Economic Community (AEC), Thailand has strategically positioned itself as the exporting centre of technology, industrial, IT and consumer goods to the member countries, Ichitan said. “Today, Thailand’s business sector has not only an eye on the 60 million population but also the vast market filled with 215 million from the CLMV countries or nearly 640 million across the AEC with an additional key focus on ‘Preparation of new experts’,” the company said.

“Accordingly, Ichitan Group has organized Ichitan Experience Academy project to offer career advancing opportunities to students in beverage production technology related fields to learn from seven specialistsof the beverage industry with Ichitan Green Factory– one of the most innovative beverage factories Thailand – as a classroom brimming with world-class technology for the students in seven major fields of production and management to experience the operation with the real production systems and the exposure unlike any universities offer.

“Starting from the product development, state-of-the-art cold aseptic filling production and control system, production of PET bottle, quality control and assurance from the first to the ending process, largest AS/RS Software in Thailand starting from the first production line up until kept in a warehouse, 10 global standard systems for further opportunity in expanding the export market as well as beverage marketing with the use of Mobile First trend, all these seven courses are delivered by seven top executives from Ichitan who are the real veterans of the production industry with the most important part being: it is free.”