Graphic designer wins an iPad from Jacky’s Facebook competition

Dubai 92 FM's Geordiebird; Ashish Panjabi, Jacky's Electronics COO; Glenn Roxas, 27, Filipino, Jacky's Electronics Facebook Competition Grand Winner of an iPad; and Dubai 92 FM's Catboy.

Jumping atop Burj Khalifa, changing their names to Jacky’s and a lot more creative and innovative ideas were among the things people would do to win an Apple iPad for free but an artistic video executing what the participant would actually do to be the new owner of the iPad has bested the rest and was hailed the winner of the first Facebook competition of Jacky’s Electronics.

Dubai 92 FM's Geordiebird; Ashish Panjabi, Jacky's Electronics COO; and Dubai 92 FM's Catboy.

Glenn Roxas, a 27 year old Filipino national graphic designer won an iPad from Jacky’s Facebook Competition — ‘What would you do to win an ipad at Jacky’s? from April 18 to 25. Close to 600 comments, videos and pictures were entered onto Jacky’s Facebook page www.facebook.com/jackysuae for the contest. After much deliberation, the judging team at Jacky’s chose Roxas as the best entry, which showed uniqueness and real creativity.

Ashish Panjabi, Jacky's Electronics COO; Dubai 92 FM's Geordiebird; and Catboy with the winners of Jacky's Electronics Facebook Competition.

The second runner-up Dana Salim, 15 year-old from Syria, received an iPod Touch. The third runner-up Nicoli Malabonga, 17-year old, from Filipine got an iPod Nano. 

Ashish Panjabi, Jacky's Electronics COO; Tala Salim, 12, Syrian; Dana Salim, 15, Syrian, Electronics Facebook Competition Second runner-up winner of an iPod Touch; and Dubai 92 FM's Catboy.

Dubai 92 FM's Geordiebird; Ashish Panjabi, Jacky's Electronics COO; Nicoli Malabonga, 17, Filipino, Jacky's Electronics Facebook Competition third runner-up winner of an iPod Nano; and Dubai 92 FM's Catboy.

Jacky’s Electronics first Facebook Competition winners were announced in a function held at Jacky’s Electronics outlet in The Dubai Mall. Ashish Panjabi, Jacky’s Chief Operating Officer, Jimmy Patel, GM, were present at the event. Dubai 92 FM’s Catboy and Geordiebird distributed the prizes to the winners. Geordiebird also sung few karaoke songs to get herself an iPad while five shoppers also received iPod shuffles during the on-the-spot competition.

Dubai FM's Geordiebird sings few karaoke songs to get herself an iPad during the on-the-spot competition.

The Grand prize winner of an iPad, Roxas took a creative 1-minute video of himself to let everyone know about Jacky’s iPad competition by going around Dubai Superman-style, walking on the middle of Sheikh Zayed Road, and socialising with other nationalities.

“I shot the video one half day and I wasn’t really expecting to win. Thank you Jacky’s for holding the competition and I can’t wait to use my new iPad in rolling out my creative ideas,” said Roxas.

Ashish Panjabi COO Jacky’s Electornics said “Social networking sites such as Facebook are important tools for us to interact and engage with our customers. We, at Jacky’s, have always aim to provide our customers with updated information whether it’s on products, promotions or industry news in the UAE. This competition allowed us to not only reward our loyal customers with an iPad, but also know their feedbacks as well.” 

“Right from the time we announced this competition, we’ve been inundated with feedback from potential winners on all the whacky and crazy things they would do for an iPad.  With the craze for this product being unrivalled to anything else we’ve seen in a while, it was only natural we decided to have a contest based around this,” he added.