Russ Swift, the world’s number one display driver, is set to showcase his unique brand of precision stunt driving in the 5th Manila Auto Show which will be held at the World Trade Center from April 2-5, 2009. Aside from exclusively flying in Russ Swift, the Manila Auto Show will provide a preview of the [...]
“One has to go through great sacrifices and labor pains before reaping the fruits of hard work.” This is the working principle of one successful woman-entrepreneur from this city who started to earn as a young girl and is now an enterprising woman managing a commercial enterprise that popularized Kalinga’s own marked product. Assertive, frank [...]
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 [...]
