Survival tips for exporters

Dominic D. Yasay 11/30/2016

EXPORTERS in Central Visayas are encouraged to continue to innovate and improve their products and explore new markets to survive in a market that has been experiencing a 17-month decline in demand. Trade Secretary Ramon Lopez said…

Gifts, decor, houseware sector gears up for spike in demand

Victor Anthony V. Silva 11/29/2016

CONSUMER spending in the coming holiday season this December is expected to boost demand for gifts, decor and houseware (GDH). Venus Genson, president of the GDH sector in Cebu, said this demand would be further bolstered by…

Entrepreneurs urged: Embrace e-commerce

Victor Anthony V. Silva 11/27/2016

Entrepreneurs are encouraged to take advantage of the country’s growing internet population and put up online platforms of their operations to scale up their businesses. Ma. Elena Arbon, Cebu provincial director of the Department of Trade and…

SM: We followed tax rules, paid obligations timely, properly

Ador Vincent S. Mayol, Victor Anthony V. Silva 11/24/2016

THEY have been compliant with all tax regulations and have paid timely and properly their real estate obligations on their SM Seaside Cebu property. This is part of SM Prime Holdings Inc.’s answer to allegations by the…

Infra spending hike to grow logistics sector by 300%

Victor Anthony V. Silva 11/24/2016

Increased spending on infrastructure, which is the thrust of the Duterte administration especially on improved transport facilities, is expected to grow the Philippine logistics industry by at least 300 percent in the next four years. Jonathan Cabaltera,…

Road show on supply chain and logistics set for tomorrow

PR 11/23/2016

THE Department of Trade and Industry, in coordination with Competitiveness Bureau, through the Supply Chain and Logistics Management Division (CB-SCLMD), is inviting exporters, importers, freight forwarders and logistic companies to the Supply Chain and Logistics road show,…

Bank of China to host cross-border trade and investments conference next year

Victor Anthony V. Silva 11/23/2016

Small and medium enterprises (SME) in the country are expected to gain access to a wider array of information, capital, technology, and markets through the Bank of China’s cross-border trade and investment conferences set to happen here…

DTI: No increase in prices of noche buena items

Victor Anthony V. Silva 11/14/2016

WITH six weeks left before Christmas, the Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) in Cebu noted no movement in prices of majority of noche buena items this year. Zaide Bation, chief of DTI Cebu’s consumer welfare division,…

Kris Aquino ‘humbled’ by Duterte’s ‘epic snub’

Apple Ta-as 11/13/2016

IT COULD have been the biggest comeback for TV host and actress Kris Aquino, but things didn’t go as planned. President Rodrigo Duterte failed to show up at her widely promoted one-on-one interview last Friday for the…

P25.4B investments poured in Cebu from January to June 2016

Victor Anthony V. Silva 11/02/2016

Investments in Cebu for the first half of this year has reached P25.4 billion, already close to exceeding the total for the whole of 2015, despite a marked reduction in mass housing projects. The Bureau of Investments…

MSMEs should learn to be disaster resilient — DTI

Victor Anthony V. Silva 10/24/2016

The Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) has called for strengthened disaster resilience among micro, small, and medium-size enterprises (MSMEs) through an enhanced partnership between the government and private sectors. Jerry Clavesillas, director of DTI’s Bureau of…

No BPO has left the country, says trade dep’t

10/24/2016

NO BUSINESS processing outsourcing (BPO) company has left the country following President Rodrigo Duterte’s declaration that the Philippines would “separate” from the United States, an official of the Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) said on Monday.…

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