Pandayan Bookshop, founded in 1993, is a 40-store chain spread across Central Luzon, Cagayan Valley, CALABARZON, and northern Metro Manila . The usual size of our stores is around 200 square meters. Our affairs at Pandayan are run by an 12-person Executive Committee which meets every other Friday and a 50-person Katipunan ng mga Panday which meets monthly. Team meetings are conducted monthly for each store. Our core values and our paradigms of management and leadership are crystallized in the Kultura ng Tagumpay – our performance bible. Our mission in Pandayan is “maging kabalikat ng kabataan tungo sa kabutihan at karunungan.” Our vision is “maging pambansang tatak.” Our main strategy is power retailing. Alongside our mission and vision is our “Pangarap para sa Panday” which welds the company to the goal of enabling each Panday to own a house and lot, send his or her children to good schools, eat nutritious food, wear decent clothes, and enjoy leisure activities. In addition to our Kultura ng Tagumpay and management meetings, other integrative mechanisms help sustain our cohesion and direction. Among them are our balanced scorecard, called Timbangan ng Tagumpay which is monitored monthly; our E-MAP (Excellence in Management Assurance Plan) composed of monthly performance assessments; the quarterly Pangkat Plan for each group of stores; and Samalikha, our monthly newsletter.