Jollibee awards Jonkie for Bogo, Carcar branches

A Cebuano entrepreneur was awarded managing director of the year after “successfully managing” his two food stores the “Jollibee way.”
Joly Bogo Inc. (JBI) managing director Jonkie Ouano, son of Mandaue City Mayor Thadeo Ouano, was awarded last month as Regional Managing Director of the Year 2005 for his “Outstanding Leadership Qualities and Exemplary Performance the [...]

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Resto chain eyes Cebu expansion

Cuban – inspired restaurant-bar Café Havana celebrated its first year anniversary in Cebu with goals of gaining a bigger market in the years to come.
“Our plan for the chain right now is really not to expand our current branch in Cebu. The direction we are taking is moving towards tapping a wider segment, which is [...]

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DST to spare business, residents power costs

Implementing daylight saving time (DST) will allow the country to save millions of pesos in energy consumption, an official of the Philippine Chamber of Commerce and Industry (PCCI) said.
PCCI-Visayas governor Robert Go said the National Government’s proposed adoption of DST to cut fuel consumption is “laudable.”
“We should have been doing this for a long time. [...]

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Real estate on ‘upswing,’ not like in late 90s – developer

If the country maintains a good economic environment, made possible by high remittances of overseas Filipino workers and investments, demand for real estate in Cebu City cannot be called speculative.
“The real estate business in Cebu is an upswing industry driven by global demand and not by hot money, which characterized the real estate bubble after [...]

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Group eyes community tourism

COMMUNITY-based tourism (CBT) will create affordable local accommodations in areas without any established city hotels and add tourist destinations and attractions.
“Each town in the Philippines has something unique to offer,” Almont Holdings president and chief executive officer Julie Alegrado-Vergara said in her presentation last week.
Almont Holdings Inc. owns Sumilon Bluewater Island Resort, Maribago Bluewater Beach [...]

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Firm offers online system containing lab test results

Hi-precision Diagnostics launched in Cebu yesterday a “huge project” — making laboratory results available online to better serve patients.
“It means convenience for those who avail (themselves) of our services, especially those who live in far places. (Since the results are posted online), they don’t have to spend money and time coming to our laboratory. This [...]

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Group launches project on rural tourism dev’t

A group of industry players launched yesterday Turismo Rural Foundation to bring the country’s tourism to a global level and promote entrepreneurship in the countryside.
Almont Holdings president and chief executive officer Julie Alegrado-Vergara, who initiated the creation of the foundation, said Turismo Rural will promote community-based tourism.
Almont Holdings Inc. owns Sumilon Bluewater Island Resort, Maribago [...]

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Cebu tops other provinces in CV in meat yield, produces 13M kilos

Cebu province was the biggest meat producer in the region in the first quarter of this year.
The entire province produced 13.17 million kilos of meat, or 84 percent of the total volume of 15.67 million kilos of Central Visayas’ meat production from January to March.
Negros Oriental followed with over 1.7 million kilos, Bohol with 732,293 [...]

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New record-high oil price increase to hurt consumers – power exec

The recent increase in oil prices will cause power and production costs to go up, which will be borne eventually by consumers, an official of the Cebu Power Core Group said yesterday.
“It will affect our foreign exchange. The country will be paying more dollars for the same amount of oil. It will increase power and [...]

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Prices of building materials go up as demand rises

Prices of basic and prime commodities in Cebu City remained stable last week except for construction materials, the Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) Cebu’s price monitoring survey reveals.
According to data furnished by DTI Cebu, the price of a 10-millimeter (mm) steel bar increased to P99.05 from P97.57 while the cost of a 12-mm steel [...]

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