Pinoy Negosyo - Helping Businesses Succeed in the Philippines

The growth in global demand for cocoa puts the Philippines in a great position to fill the demand gap and be a significant player in the international chocolate market. Given the climatic conditions and soil quality that suits well to…

About 10 million Filipinos work and live abroad and most of them regularly send money to families in the Philippines. In addition to this huge market for remittance business, domestic transactions such as stay-at-home retailers, parents…

Growing mango is in line with the initiatives of both the Philippine government and private sectors in terms of production, processing and marketing support. Once productive, a 10-15 year old tree will yield approximately 500 kilos of…

Christmas is a festive season in the Philippines. With so much happening, it’s also a time ripe for a business to thrive and grow, even though some might be purely seasonal. Business people can be opportunistic, taking advantage of…

Ukay-ukay clothing business is something that Filipinos are quite familiar with. Though in the Philippines, the business doesn’t deserve the connotation sometimes associated with it -- used and worn out, potential source of skin diseases --…

Rice is a staple food of Filipinos and needless to say, engaging in selling or trading rice supplies can be a stable business. With the government agency, the National Food Authority, providing alternative, usually cheaper supplies of rice…

Hope springs eternal in the Philippines as among the most promising in the world when it comes to being a newly industrialized economy. Still, doing business, there remains a tricky task, especially for foreign players without local…

Sari-sari stores in the Philippines are a unique and intimate part of the Philippine local culture. We not only involve business when transacting with sari-sari storekeepers when we holler that familiar “pabili,” we often get involved…

Are you an overseas Filipino worker currently owning rental property business in the Philippines? Maybe you mortgaged for a condo unit on Airbnb market, left your bungalow house for rent to a family and let your mother do the rental…

Setting up a sari-store in the Philippine isn't as complicated as many other businesses around. If you have a small vacant space in the backyard, skills in carpentry and basic arithmetic, and small capital, you can establish your micro…