On 6 Dec. 2012, University of Asia and the Pacific (UA&P) holds its Year-End Food and Agri Business Conference at its campus. Invited to delve on the Food Retail Industry is PAGASA's STC.  Entitled "Phil. Food & Agriculture: On Track for Growth?" industry speakers discussed the Food Service, Banana, Coconut and Vegetables Industries.  Dr. Rolando Dy, Exec. Dir. of the Center for Food & Agri Business of the UA&P, ends the conference with a discussion on Agriculture Scenarios in 2012-2013. Together with STC, they both tackled issues during the open forum portion of the Conference.

STC is invited once more to Umagang Kay Ganda on 4 Dec. 2012.  This time, he is interviewed by Ariel Ureta and BernadetteSembrano-Aguinaldo on the do's-and-don'ts of Christmas Shopping. STC shows a PAGASA Reusable Bag saying that for this Yuletide Season, alot of people may shift from gift wrapping their gifts to giving them inside Ecobags which are more useful and environment-friendly.