Observing that onion farmers in San Jose City in Nueva Ecija no longer relied on doleouts, Mayor Marivic Belena decided in 2008 they were ready to become businessmen, embarking on a bridge program aimed at providing them a market.
Growing up with a nutritionist for a mom who always had something in the oven for them, sisters Jane-Jane and Veronica Ong decided to open a cake and pastry shop in their property in Mabolo 13 years ago.
TO serve a growing clientele in Cebu, a high end furniture brand distributor opened a showroom in the new Design Center along A.S Fortuna Street in Mandaue City, Cebu.
Over 100 microentrepreneurs are selling local, innovative products and services in a month-long marketing event organized by the Quezon City government and Sikap Buhay Entrepreneurship and Cooperative Office.
Precy Nilda Duque, 32, found work in Qatar in December 2006 but later felt the sad difficulty of being away from her ailing father and four dependent siblings. Compounding her worries was her failure to fulfill her religious obligations in a foreign land.
THE Master of Business Administration students of Southwestern University (SWU) under Prof. Wilfe Besin will hold a forum with Cebu’s young and successful entrepreneurs on today, Sept. 15 at 1 p.m. at the SWU Main Campus-AVR 3.
ESTEBAN Tutor arrived in Cebu from Bohol three years ago to earn a living to raise his family of four.
A SMALL food cart selling cooked sweet corn in barangay Lahug, Cebu City, provides a small but steady income for 25-year-old John Ren Bertulfo.
THE Department of Agrarian Reform (DAR) in Negros Oriental and Negros Oriental State University (Norsu) signed an agreement on Agrarian Reform Community Connectivity and Economic Support Services (Arccess) last April 2 at 1:30 p.m. at the Norsu main campus in Dumaguete City.
One day in 2006, Bartolome Malacura decided to post the names of his debtors outside his sari-sari store in the Island Garden City of Samal in a bid to collect from them.
All Souls’ Day is a peak season for flower growers in the mountain barangay of Babag, Cebu City.
It started as a borrowed concept when Robert Go went to the United States and saw how warehouse store concepts like Wallmart were a hit there. “He used to help my grandpa in his store in Carbon – Prince Marketing – that’s into wholesale of plastics like kitchenwares, housewares all over Visayas and Mindanao,” said [...]
AS FLOODWATERS spawned by Tropical Storm “Juaning” recede after destroying rice fields in Bicol two weeks ago, small farmers are facing uncertainties for the coming months, especially since the government had already scrapped its seed subsidy to them. The subsidy used to cover half of the farmers’ expenses for rice seeds and fertilizers. Adelina Brosula, [...]
