WHAT WE ALL ASPIRE TO BE
The media landscape in the Philippines 28 years ago was very different. The digital landscape was a mere seed in the brains of a few forward-thinking people, and at the time, the idea of a glossy magazine devoted to fashion and lifestyle was near unheard of.
Not so in the mind of Sari Yap, who passed last month, leaving behind One Mega Group, Inc. (OMG), a company that for the last three decades under her guidance has influenced the world of publishing in the Philippines.
Sari took her masters in the University of Navarre, where her thesis on entrepreneurship combined with her fondness for the Spanish fashion magazine Telva led her to explore the idea of forming a glossy, fashion-based publication in the Philippines. In 1991, she created MEGA Magazine. The rest, they say, is history.
For the ensuing decades that followed, MEGA
