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                    [Title] => Opening of exporters' depot to cushion recession impact
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Next week’s opening of “Tindahang Pinoy” will showcase the strong collaboration of the export and tourism sectors in Cebu.

[DatePublished] => 2011-12-01 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1298072 [AuthorName] => Ehda Dagooc [SectionName] => Freeman Cebu Business [SectionUrl] => cebu-business [URL] => ) [1] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 732378 [Title] => Rising cost of doing business, strong peso choking exporters [Summary] =>

Small and Medium entrepreneurs (SMEs) in exports expressed apprehensions that the upswing of the value of the peso against the dollar coupled with the rising cost of doing business in the Philippines would further squeeze their business.

[DatePublished] => 2011-10-01 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1298072 [AuthorName] => Ehda Dagooc [SectionName] => Freeman Cebu Business [SectionUrl] => cebu-business [URL] => ) [2] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 725070 [Title] => SPIN program strengthened to sustain production demand [Summary] =>

As Cebuano exporters, particularly in the gifts, toys, and houseware (GTH) sector, are losing sub-contractor manpower due to the emerging industries like tourism, Business Process Outsourcing (BPO), they are determined to strengthen the Subcontracting Partners for Innovation (SPIN) program to train countryside manpower to aid their sustaining demand of orders.

[DatePublished] => 2011-09-09 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1298072 [AuthorName] => Ehda Dagooc [SectionName] => Freeman Cebu Business [SectionUrl] => cebu-business [URL] => ) [3] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 622093 [Title] => Cebu exporters confident of recovery in three years [Summary] =>

While the recovery of the export sector is still uncertain in the next few years, exporters from Cebu and the neighboring provinces are confident to post at least a double-digit growth in the next three years.

[DatePublished] => 2010-10-20 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1298072 [AuthorName] => Ehda Dagooc [SectionName] => Freeman Cebu Business [SectionUrl] => cebu-business [URL] => ) [4] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 620668 [Title] => Peso strength hurts local manufacturers [Summary] =>

Although hopes are up for a possible export market recovery, especially in the gifts, toys and houseware or home furnishing products in the second half of this year, manufacturers still feel the brunt of the strengthening of the peso against the greenback.

[DatePublished] => 2010-10-15 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1298072 [AuthorName] => Ehda Dagooc [SectionName] => Freeman Cebu Business [SectionUrl] => cebu-business [URL] => ) [5] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 603722 [Title] => Overseas export orders still unreliable [Summary] =>

Despite the seeming recovery of the overseas market, the export sector remains cautious as up until now, orders still come in trickles and in inconsistent volumes.

[DatePublished] => 2010-08-19 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1298072 [AuthorName] => Ehda Dagooc [SectionName] => Freeman Cebu Business [SectionUrl] => cebu-business [URL] => ) [6] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 582387 [Title] => Economic recovery shows changes in buying patterns [Summary] =>

Although the Gifts, Toys and Housewares (GTH) sector already felt the positive effects of the recovering global economy, the anticipated recovery however failed to meet the expectations of most exporters.

[DatePublished] => 2010-06-09 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1298072 [AuthorName] => Ehda Dagooc [SectionName] => Freeman Cebu Business [SectionUrl] => cebu-business [URL] => ) [7] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 564703 [Title] => Corporate and state governance similar but differ in many ways [Summary] =>

Entrepreneurial skills like people management are basically useful to chief executives of a city, province or country. The application and implementation of these skills in government service, however, differs from those in private institutions.

[DatePublished] => 2010-04-10 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1389253 [AuthorName] => Jessica B. Natad [SectionName] => Freeman Cebu Business [SectionUrl] => cebu-business [URL] => ) [8] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 421166 [Title] => Smalltimers meet bigwigs in "Red Christmas Bazaar" [Summary] => Small time entrepreneurs as well as farmers of Cebu’s fifth district are given the opportunity to meet big companies and exporters through the district-wide “Red Christmas Bazaar 2008. [DatePublished] => 2008-12-06 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1298072 [AuthorName] => Ehda Dagooc [SectionName] => Freeman Cebu Business [SectionUrl] => cebu-business [URL] => ) [9] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 378596 [Title] => Exporters unite in government subsidy bid [Summary] => Gifts, Toys and Housewares Association of Exporters in Cebu (Cebu-GTH) will join the advocacy of the Cebu Furniture Industry Foundation Inc. (CFIF) for government subsidy for overseas marketing promotions.

The two organizations will join hands in asking the PhilExport and the Export Development Council (EDC) to support the proposal for the government, said GTH-Cebu president Jenifer Cruz.

"We have to ask the EDC through PhilExport to help us in this request. We have to do our best in order to fight the competition," Cruz said in an interview.
[DatePublished] => 2007-01-06 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1298072 [AuthorName] => Ehda Dagooc [SectionName] => Freeman Cebu Business [SectionUrl] => cebu-business [URL] => ) ) )
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