Features

At 4 pm today, July 23, 2012, President Benigno Aquino will report to the Filipino nation — the people he calls “ang aking mga boss” — what his administration has done the past 12 months Read More

By the SERDEF Media Bureau Do you have plans of putting up your own business but are assailed with doubts you have what it takes to swing it? Look back to your childhood. Your early Read More

(First published in the Philippine Daily Inquirer, July 8, 2012) SALAY, Misamis Oriental–“We have grown. We are no longer the same company,” Loreta Rafisura, president of Salay Handmade Paper Products, Inc. (SHAPII), declares. She says this Read More

  by Ma. Rachel Roxas Yapchiongco Many residential areas and commercial establishments in the country have beautiful landscapes to make their surroundings pleasing to the eyes.   There has been a growing demand for lawn care Read More

by the SERDEF Media Bureau (first published in the Philippine Online Chronicles, June 17, 2012) Food entrepreneurs had better sit up and listen. After Korean bulgogi, Vietnamese pho (noodles) and Indian tandoori, Pinoy adobo and Read More

by the SERDEF Media Bureau (first published in the Philippine Online Chronicles, June 13, 2012) Businesses  — big and small – have resorted to product downsizing in various ways and for various reasons. Many manufacturers Read More

by Myrna R. Co, SERDEF Media Bureau (First published in the Philippine Daily Inquirer, Business Monday, June 3, 2012) Bulua, Cagayan de Oro.  At the peak of her career, Vivian Bandiola Libao quit her high-paying Read More

by the SERDEF Media Bureau How prevalent are franchising scams? The problem must be so serious that the Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) was prompted to  issue an advisory sometime ago warning the public Read More

Grassroots what?  — you might wonder. New buzzword or not, grassroots marketing simply refers to activities which allows your products to meet your customers where they are, where they live and work or pass through Read More

By Ma. Rachel R. Yapchiongco (first published in the Philippine Online Chronicles, January 23, 2012) A preschool is a learning environment where young children’s minds can be properly nurtured and stimulated to prepare them for Read More