{"id":4394,"date":"2014-03-24T17:36:20","date_gmt":"2014-03-24T09:36:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/?p=4394"},"modified":"2014-03-24T17:36:20","modified_gmt":"2014-03-24T09:36:20","slug":"lenovo-continues-concept-store-expansion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/2014\/03\/24\/lenovo-continues-concept-store-expansion\/","title":{"rendered":"Lenovo continues concept store expansion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>To strengthen its local presence and increase its market share in the smartphone and tablet arena, Lenovo, the fourth largest smartphone vendor globally, has announced the opening of its newest Lenovo Mobile Exclusive Store (LMES) in Roxas City, Capiz.<\/strong><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_4395\" style=\"width: 630px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/Lenovo2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4395\" class=\"size-full wp-image-4395\" alt=\"(From left) Paul Tinsay, Owner, Wave Mobile Inc., Anna Abola, Marketing Communications Manager, Lenovo Philippines, Nestor Remata, National Sales Director, Open Communications Inc. and Michael Ngan, Country General Manager, Lenovo Philippines \" src=\"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/Lenovo2.jpg\" width=\"620\" height=\"709\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/Lenovo2.jpg 620w, http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/Lenovo2-262x300.jpg 262w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 620px) 100vw, 620px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-4395\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><span style=\"color: #888888;\"><em>(From left) Paul Tinsay, Owner, Wave Mobile Inc.; Anna Abola, Marketing Communications Manager, Lenovo Philippines; Nestor Remata, National Sales Director, Open Communications Inc.; and Michael Ngan, Country General Manager, Lenovo Philippines.<\/em><\/span><\/p><\/div>\n<p><strong><\/strong><br \/>\nGfk\u2019s latest survey results reveal that smartphone sales in the Philippines from January to September 2013 hit $1.24 billion, an increase of 42% while IDC\u2019s Worldwide Quarterly Tablet Tracker states that tablet shipments to the Philippines grew 54.4% in Q2 of 2013.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLenovo fully intends to bring our smartphone and tablet products to more Filipino DOers,\u201d said Michael Ngan, country GM of Lenovo Philippines. \u201cThe opening of our concept store in Roxas City, being the center of Capiz is a strategic move for Lenovo as it will allow us to to reach not only the consumers in Capiz but even those in the province of Iloilo.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Lenovo Mobile Exclusive Store, located in the recently opened Robinson\u2019s Place, Roxas, will be managed and operated by Wave Mobile Inc. The store will carry Lenovo smartphone products such as Lenovo\u2019s newest S series smartphones, the S930 and S650 and its current premium smartphones, the Lenovo Vibe X and Z together with Lenovo tablet products such as the Lenovo Yoga Tablet 8\u201d and 10\u201d as well as the recently launched Lenovo Miix 2 8\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>To date, Lenovo has seven concept stores exclusively dedicated to their smartphone and tablet products including the recently opened concept store in Ayala Center Cebu.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To strengthen its local presence and increase its market share in the smartphone and tablet arena, Lenovo, the fourth largest smartphone vendor globally, has announced the opening of its newest Lenovo Mobile Exclusive Store (LMES) in Roxas City, Capiz.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":4395,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,2,6,3,4],"tags":[1439,312,1069],"class_list":["post-4394","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-headlines","category-mobile-products","category-phone-accessories","category-phones","category-tablets","tag-concept-store","tag-lenovo","tag-lenovo-mobile-exclusive-store"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4394","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4394"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4394\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4395"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4394"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4394"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4394"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}