by magnolia_eic | May 28, 2011 | Announcements, Headlines, Local News / Bohol Balita
FOR school supplies and school item shoppers who are egging to eke out a few savings for the rainy days, try
shopping in major city stores on May 31 to June 2.
This as the Department of Trade and Industry in Bohol (DTI-Bohol), in partnership with local superstores bring
in an innovation in selling through the discounted rates via the Diskwento Caravan program on those dates.
The promotional sale is actually the national Diskwento Caravan: Presyong Panalo Para sa Mamimiling
Pilipino Program brought down with DTI and big-time stores: Alturas Group of Companies and Bohol Quality
Corporation.
Set for launching on May 31, 2011, the Diskwento Caravan is DTI’s efforts to present a visible answer to the
national governments call to implement non-wage benefit to employees, who are heavily burdened in these
during difficult times, says Lucille Autentico, DTI information officer.
DTI-Bohol Provincial Director Maria Elena C. Arbon said the project hopes to improve consumer’s access to
basic and prime commodities at lower prices through the partner companies carrying the products of Manila
based manufacturers to their towns if not to their door-steps.
In Bohol, the Diskwento Caravan comes in two types: the Store Based and the Roving Type.
Store based Diskwento are participated by Island City Mall, Alturas–Tagbilaran, Alturas–Talibon, Plaza Marcela;
all of Alturas Group of Companies and the Bohol Quality Superstore of Bohol Quality Corporation.
“These establishments, in partnership with the government, offers discounted or reduced prices of school
supplies, school items and basic and prime commodities during normal business hours on May 31 to June 2,
2011 at their respective stores here in Tagbilaran City and Talibon town, respectively.”
On the other hand, the Roving Diskwento Caravan will be jointly undertaken by DTI and the Alturas Group of
Companies in the municipalities of Talibon, Trinidad and Ubay and Baclayon, Arbon said in a press material.
For the rolling store Caravan, the schedules are: Talibon-June 7 in the morning; Trinidad– June 7 in the
afternoon and Ubay– June 8 whole day.
A Diskwento Caravan also opens in Baclayon on June 10, 2011.
Boholano consumers are advised to take advantage of this opportunity to purchase their needs in time for the
opening of classes.
For more information, call DTI-Bohol at (038) 501-8260, 501-8828 and 411-3302. (Rey Anthony Chiu with
Lucille Autentico)
by magnolia_eic | Aug 2, 2010 | Local News / Bohol Balita
CASH SALES, including booked and under negotiation purchases surpassed the P31.1M target for this year.
The Sandugo Regional Products Showcase 2010, which started as small provincial products fair in Bohol graduated to one of the region’s most awaited annual fairs. It proved anew the promise available for cottage industries as the materials fusion this year brings a million more in target sales, data from the trade department revealed.
From the department’s unofficial and yet reliable source, cash sales generated from the five-day showcase reached P2.81 million, booked sales racked up P17 million and another under negotiations reached P12.62 million to sum a gross sales of P32, 466, 836.00 a few minutes before the official closing of the fair last Sunday.
Now into its 21st year of showcasing raw materials form Visayas’ diverse environmental resource, the new lines produced our of its research and development initiatives lay out the agency’s efforts to be environmentally conscious about the finite resources, explains DTI information Officer Jojie Villamor during the fair pre-opening press conference last week at the Prawn farm of the Island City Mall.
Working with climate change and its mitigation, the new trend is to fuse recyclables with the indigenous raw materials and showcase the artistic capacity of Visayans to produce stunning designs for the international market, added DTI Provincial Director Ma. Elena Arbon.
We are presented here with a 50% cut in raw materials and another 50% cut in garbage as these [products] end up as hand-woven patterns in bags and fashion accessories, said DTI Regional Director Asteria Caberte at the media forum.
According to Arbon, the showcase marks the culmination of the product development initiatives geared towards providing importers with the raw materials that would make it big in the international markets.
The biggest winners however are the Visayan craftsmen who would ultimately get an increase in income to further boost their economic spending.
Raffia and pandanus, Bohol’s most hopeful raw materials are now slowly engaging rural families who see the promise of providing the designs for the next century’s world fashion. (rac/PIABohol)
by magnolia_eic | Apr 16, 2010 | Local News / Bohol Balita
Nahupay ang gibating kaguol sa usa ka ginikanan human na rikober sa kapulisan ang ka 6-anyos nga batang babaye dihang gikatahong nahanaw samtang nag shopping sa Island City Mall sa dakbayan sa Tagbilaran niadtong Miyerkules. Giila ang bata nga si Gillian Marie Avila, taga barangay Jimilian, Loboc, Bohol.
Nasayran sa taho nga ang biktima mikuyog sa iyang inahan nga si Susima Avila nisud sa maong mall niadtong Miyerkules apan gibilin ang bata human nisulod sa comfort room ang maong inahan apan sa dihang migawas na niini, nahanaw na si Gillian Marie.
Nagpatabang ang inahan sa maong biktima ug nagpa-flash alarm sa Kampo Dagohoy ang insidente nga niresulta sa pagka rekober niini didto sa balay sa usa ka Epifania Abaat sa Balintawak, Talibon, Bohol mga alas 3 sa hapon niadtong Huwebes.
Nahibaw-an nga ang maong bata misakay ug usa ka St. Jude nga Bus paingon sa naasoyng lungsod ug gidala sa balay ni Abaat gumikan kay walay nakaila niini.
Gikuha sa mga sakop sa Bohol Provicial police ang maong bata didto sa Talibon Police Station ug gitunol kini ngadto sa iyang ginikanan. (Andy Nalzaro)
