MAGIC Supermarket has awarded its Top Ten Suki Plus Holders of Magiclub and Super Magic last October 6, celebrated as Araw ng Mga Suki at the Masarap grill in Magiclub Dagupan City in line with its BigaTEN Quest 2007 promo. Suki Plus Holders are wholesale buyers of Magic who automatically…
A bigger Sari-Sari Store and Livelihood Fair will be staged next year following the success of the first event of its kind last month, according to Dagupan City Vice Mayor Belen Fernandez. Fernandez, president of the retail giant CSI Group of Companies which sponsored the three-day fair from September 28-30,…
Bigger Sari-sari Store Fair returns next year
DAGUPAN City has been named one of the top four finalists for the 2007 Most Business Friendly City in the Philippines by the Philippine Chamber of Commerce and Industry. City Administrator Alvin Fernandez and City Planning and Development Officer Romeo Rosario presented a six-minute audio-visual presentation that showcased the speedy…
Dagupan, finalist as “most business friendly LGU”
BED PEDDLERS–What better and faster way to sell bamboo beds than to carry the beds directly to the customers’ homes as two ambulant vendors above do, walking around neighborhoods with the beds on their backs. Carts they surely don’t need. (Punchphoto by Cesar Ramirez)
BED PEDDLERS
LINGAYEN—Hanjin Shipping Company Limited, a Korean shipbuilding company based at the Subic Freeport Zone in Olongapo, has approved a training program for some 321 welders from Pangasinan. At the same time, the company also screened some 168 engineers from the province to fill its increasing manpower quota. Governor Amado Espino…
Hanjin trains engineers, welders from Pangasinan
Her business is a large-scale version of sari-sari stores. Quite a much bigger version. But she, too, started out small. And her success story serves as a living inspiration for retail shop owners. Belen Fernandez, president and chief executive officer of the City Supermarket Inc. (CSI) Group…
BELEN FERNANDEZ: Queen of Sari-sari stores
Pangasinan will be a major player in the development of the Ilocos Region as the agriculture-business capital of the Philippines by 2010, said an official of the National Economic Development (NEDA). Medardo Panlilio, chief of Plan and Policy Formulation of NEDA Region 1, called on provincial officials to draw plans…
Pangasinan is major player in agri-business–NEDA
ALTERNATIVE TO EXPENSIVE FEEDS BINMALEY–Bangus are good for growing tilapia. Bangus bones, that is. A study made by a group from the College of Fisheries here of the Pangasinan State University (PSU) showed that tilapia fed with a mixture of 75% formulated diet and 20%-25% bangus bones and spines has…
Bangus bones make good tilapia feed
THE Villaflor Memorial Doctors Hospital is expanding and has acquired more modern equipment to provide patients with even better medical services. This was announced by Dr. Vivencio Villaflor Jr., managing director of VMDH on September 27, coinciding with the hospital’s 26th anniversary. Villaflor said the hospital transferred to its present…
Villaflor Doctors Hospital set for expansion
TO protect the interest of consumers who regularly buy at the Centromart public market at Zamora Street, one 25-kilogram weighing scale was installed by the management, with the official sanction of the Department of Trade & Industry, represented by Marjury Loresco and Maria Anna Espinoza and the Dagupan City Mayor’s…




