Valued by its first Christian settlers more than half a century ago, this town’s rich soil not only grows cultivated crops but also abounded with abaca (Musa textilis), a species of banana native to the Philippines. Now, many of its highlanders live out of it. They are the Tboli “sinamay” makers of the United Maligang [...]
The story behind the success of Rosa Foods, a pioneering processed food producer in Aklan specializing in meat products, is one inspiring tale which could motivate every Aklanon and every Filipino not to hesitate in starting small in business – because there are rewards to reap if you have discipline, perseverance, industry and love of [...]
The Philippine Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) here is set to launch an entrepreneurship training and business counseling service program, dubbed as “A Responsive and Innovative Strategy for Entrepreneurship” or ARISE. DTI regional director for Western Visayas said the program will be launched simultaneously in all DTI provincial offices on January 26. It was [...]
A one stop business and tourism center will soon rise at the capitol compound here come February. The Provincial Government of Bulacan announced Friday that a 2-storey building of the Bulacan Tourism and Business Assistance Center (BTBAC) will be constructed on a 30.5-meter-by-56-meter lot with 448 square meter floor area and facing the capitol mini [...]
Who said there are no jobs available in the Philippines? Hit Rate Solutions, a US based Business Process Outsourcing company, officially opened a 160 seat call center in Bacolod City, Philippines. The center will house the company’s core telemarketing, customer service, and data entry outsourcing functions. “We are pleased to open a call center in [...]
One week before Christmas, Wilma Fernandez Ventura quietly taped a small sign atop the bundles of bread on one of the stainless steel shelves in her bakery that says “Obama Pan de Sal”. The unheralded event at seven in the morning was actually the soft launching of what she calls the “healthy bread alternative” named [...]
What’s a “bayong” ? It’s just a simple woven flat basket made of buri, bamboo or rattan strips that grandma loves bringing around to the market when buying things for the kitchen. This may come as a surprise to many, but indications show “bayong” could spark a whole new export industry in the Philippines. Growing [...]
Filipino jewelry makers from seven small towns here who just started to churn out little pieces of gold earrings, rings, bracelets, pendants, necklaces, etc. a few years back, are sitting on mountains of gold. Deep beneath the rugged mountain ranges of Compostela Valley lies a rich ore field containing gold with a density of 25 [...]
Two major renewable energy biomass project in the Visayas grid will soon be constructed by a UK-based firm to address the looming power supply shortage in the region by 2010. Green Power Panay Philippines Inc., an affiliate company of UK firm Global Green Power PLC, has signed a series of electricity supply agreements (ESA) in [...]
The Philippines’ Business Process Outsourcing (BPO) industry will not be affected by the international financial crisis. This was assured by Dr. George Sorio, executive director of Cyber City Teleservices, who said that if the financial crisis would force international BPO firms to close shop, “its effects (to the Philippines) are not that drastic.” Sorio noted [...]