Private sector's supports

CP All Plc, the operator of 7-Eleven convenience stores, is ready to distribute products of local small and medium-sized enterprises particularly food and drinks. Any interested can contact 02-677-9000. It is also open for job applications at 02-677-1719 and 02-677-1726 or www.cpall.co.th.
 CP All Managing Director Piyawat Titasattavorakul said that promoting SMEs has been the company's priority, particularly during the floods.
 At counter service, all can also donate to PM's Office account. Slips can be used for tax deduction.7-Eleven Inc, the operator of convenience store in the US, also donated US$50,000 or about Bt1.5 million to the Thai Red Cross Society's Princess Pa Foundation.
 

Yum Restaurants International (Thailand) Co Ltd is putting up a Bt15 million fund to help employees, with help having been extended to over 1,000 employees who are affected by the floods.
 Intitially, the staff is allocated Bt2,500-Bt10,000 each, aside from a zero-rate loan. "Yum (Thailand) places employees as its priority. If they are unhappy, they can't provide good services," said managing director Milind Pant.
 Donation boxes are placed at all KFC and Pizza Hut, and recently Yum had presented the collected Bt2 million to Thai Red Cross Society and Channel 3, aside from the supply of food boxes to Ayutthaya and Pathum Thani. Donation boxes will remain until end-December.
 Yum also assured the freshness of all ingredients of its pizza, despite problems to suppliers. It also guarantees no increase in product prices.

Over 50 KFC and Pizza Hut outlets have been closed now.

Sugar millers are recruiting a huge number of workers to relieve an increase in floodsdriven unemployment, confident that 47 sugar millers nationwide could take up over 10,000 workers.
 "Companies in the sugar cane and sugar industry realise the unemployment problem. We should take part in helping the country by giving jobs to these workers, so that they could support their families. Sugar millers nationwide will find suitable jobs for them. They could work in sugar cane fields, tend machinery in sugar mills, or help in backoffice," said Sirivuthi Siampakdee, vice executive chairman of Thai Sugar Miller Co Ltd.
 Of total 47 sugar mills, 10 are in the North, 16 in the Central, 16 in the Northeast and 5 in the East. The workers are offered temporary jobs for the 2011 crunching season, which starts from November to April 2012.  Workers are encouraged to directly contact the millers. For more information, call 022730992 or check www.thaisugarmillers.com.
 It is estimated that nearly 500,000 workers will lose jobs as over 10,000 factories nationwide are affected by floods.

Thirty two listed companies have contributed a total of Bt94 million to the Stock Exchange of Thailand-led fund. The SET contributed Bt250 million to the fund, of which size is expected to reach Bt250 million with donations from capital market-related organisations.
 

Chevrolet Sales Thailand has extended a 30-percent discount on all spare parts to the end of this year. Please contact 1734 for more information during Monday-Saturday.
 Chevrolet also provided 15 new Chevrolet Colorado to support Channel 7's disaster-relief operations and 10 floating restrooms as well as 100 units of 200-litre oil barrels to be used as as floats and buoys.
 Its latest flood-relief initiative is the launch of a donation centre, in conjunction with the Thai Red Cross Society and its ‘Satellite Launch’ campaign to take donations in 11 provinces. The recently-concluded ‘Ultimate Good Drive’ campaign, which was launched in early October 2011 to bring the all-new Colorado to 11 provinces around the country, also took on the additional task of delivering donated goods and relief supplies to victims and provinces affected by the floods.