Success never tasted better as the country's most dynamically innovative franchise company, Siomai King bagged the "Franchise Company of the Year award" for two consecutive years, from the recently concluded Asia Leader's Awards recognition body.

This prestigious annual recognition event commends "leaders in different industries who are making a difference" not only in their respective fields but also promoting the country as a premier business hub in Asia and beyond. 

This year, and for the second time around, Siomai king retained such an honor.

Siomai King, the iconic siomai company brand who has been serving the Filipino siomai loving community for over 16 years that is known not only for its rich, mouth-watering, pure meat and affordable siomai variants but also caught the attention of the food franchise industry when the pandemic hit the industry the hardest. 

It was the time when the company swiftly adapted and transitioned from the traditional food cart franchise operation to the out-of-the-ordinary "Online Franchise" platform.

"During the early months of the pandemic, the choice was simple… it's either we continue how we operate our business normally and struggle on the market that was crippled by the pandemic… or challenge the pandemic head-on by adapting. 

The fact is, there is nothing normal about the pandemic and the way you execute your business operations will determine whether your business will survive or not. Luckily, we have our own I.T. Solutions Company (CloudPanda Ph) and started to develop a different approach where our franchisees can safely and conveniently continue to operate their franchise business, online.

This is when the Online Franchise business platform was established and was instrumental in helping our "Online Franchisees" get over the pandemic" said Siomai King Vice President and CFO Carlito Macadangdang

Unlike other companies that went conservative, limiting spending and growth when it was affected by the ill economic effects of the pandemic,  Siomai King went the other way by taking risks and expanded further, fueling the rising demand for its products as the result of its massive “Online Franchise” success.

As a matter of fact, Siomai king infused tens of millions In additional capital to further expand their online technological infrastructure and acquired several additional automated siomai machines, sustaining and hiring more to triple its work force during the height of the pandemic.

Aside from the continued success and acceptance from the general public, Siomai king continues to innovate not only in the current pandemic situation but more importantly, once the economy goes back to normal in the next few months to come.

"We always believe that being one step ahead in every situation is vital for establishing our success in the food service and franchise industry, that is why we continue to innovate not only by adding more and more food choices on our Siomai King Shoplink menu that our online franchisees can market, enabling them to earn "anytime, anywhere" but also calibrating our digital infrastructure for the much anticipated "back to normal" economic status as required by the market. 

Here at Siomai King, we not only think of ways on how we can help our online franchisees earn more and develop food product concepts and options that our customers can enjoy, but we also have our eyes set on how we can help out our communities. - added Siomai King President and CEO Jonathan So

With this said, Siomai King recently launch its newest campaign to help out the different communities in the country by conceptualizing a community based franchise opportunity that markets Siomai King’s hottest product, The Siomai King Sulit packs. 

These tasty and highly affordable “Sulit Packs” are the newest innovations of the franchise giant, that provides low capital income opportunities specifically designed for the community.

Siomai King will continue to innovate and beef up its product lines and will continue to formulate ways on how it can provide more income opportunities, not only to its existing franchisees but to the different communities as well.

Siomai King founders Jonathan So and Carlito Macadangdang is grateful for the recognition that their company has been recognized for and the advocacy on which the Asia Leaders Award was founded.