I know all emotions are all up high because of the TRO released today by a court in Quezon City.
According to reports, in 20 days, Grab and Uber are not allowed to accept new applicants as operators or partners.
The court order was based on a petition filed by Pascual “Jun” Magno, the leader of Angat Tsuper Samahan ng mga Tsuper at Operator ng Pilipinas Genuine Organization Transport Coalition, popularly known as STOP and Go.
In a tweet by ABS-CBN reporter Ron Gagalac, the judge clarified that the TRO applies to future applications only.
RTC Judge Arenas clarifies: "We are not stopping current operations of Uber and Grab, TRO covers only future applications if there is any."
— Ron Gagalac (@rongagalac) December 4, 2015
GrabTaxi released its official statement about the TRO. You can read it here.
But there is another news …
Natasha Bautista, the current General Manager at Grab Taxi, is leaving GrabTaxi effective December 10.
Bautista joined Grab Taxi Philippines in 2013 as Marketing Vice President. Her role includes support management and led marketing. She was also involved with the sales teams with its planning and implementation of strategies to build passenger growth of the new technology being introduced to the transport sector.
In April 2014, she became Deputy Country General Manager where she led the winning strategy of the profitable and accelerated growth Grab Taxi, which has expanded its business to GrabCar and GrabCar Plus. With her leadership, the company generated competitive market share which contributed to business and performance.
In February this year, Bautista was promoted to be the Head of Grab Car Philippines. By this time, the initial product of GrabTaxi has already launched other services to include GrabExpress, GrabBike, and very recently, the GrabHeli.
After December 10, Grab Taxi Philippines will be headed by these personalities:
Gines Barot and Christie Lucagbo will take care of GrabCar business. GrabTaxi-related will be handled by Poch Ceballos. GrabExpress and Grab-Bike will be handled by Angeline Tham, Khriz Lim remains the head of marketing.
Bautista, aside from working in Grab Taxi Philippines, is a professional model.
