by Jan Victor Mateo | Oct 23, 2018 | Good Business
In 2003, John Concepcion, Unilever RFM Ice Cream Inc. chief and managing director, decided he wanted to do more for the community. At the time, the company, maker of Selecta ice cream, was already a leading producer of the popular comfort food for Filipinos. Jessie...
by Jessica Corado | Oct 16, 2018 | Good Business
Rodolfo Vertucio, a farmer from Calinan, Davao City, has been in the banana business for 20 years. And for most of those years, a stable income was hard to come by. He began planting the cavendish variety to get a slice of the export market but volatile prices proved...
by Gabriel Roberto Barrios | Oct 9, 2018 | Good Business
The Philippines is blossoming with business potential, and the world is undoubtedly taking notice. That’s why Pierre Cote decided to enter an industry in the country that is already native to the land, but not being optimized – the coffee industry. Thus was born...
by Mark Anthony Toldo | Oct 2, 2018 | Good Business
For years, an informal cottage industry spearheaded by rag-weavers living in Payatas, Quezon City was operated by the many artisans, mostly women, who developed a means to earn a living by recycling factory end-cuts and rejects, into hand-woven foot rugs....
by Rima Jessamine Granali | Sep 25, 2018 | Good Business
When super typhoon Yolanda struck the country in 2013, it destroyed almost everything Retchel Pasturan’s family owned. “Nahurot. Naguba dyud totally an balay (Gone. Our house was totally damaged),” Pasturan, a 35-year-old backyard farmer in Ormoc City, said....
