Unusual businesses of 2021

Three big businesses stood out in 2021 for me: Mynt, Monde Nissin, and Converge. Two are in telecommunications, one in food. Because of or despite the pandemic, all have made remarkable strides in pursuing expansion plans during the last two years. As most Filipinos are still unaware, Mynt owns GCash, the mobile wallet service provider that now has now some 48 million subscribers, a number that has more than doubled from pre-pandemic 2019. Also a laudable accomplishment is its expansion of merchant and seller partners, from just 63,000 to 2.5 million over the last two years. Mynt, formerly nam…

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