Philippine company RPO Fine Foods Corporation, a Philippine company, closed a deal with Walmart for its Wow Mani product line in June 2020. Walmart is now offering RPO Fine Foods Corporation’s Wow Mani product line in their San Francisco, Mountain View, San Jose, San Leonardo, and Union City stores.
The COVID-19 pandemic has changed drastically the way consumers and enterprises do business. Due to lockdowns and the closing down of borders, micro, small, and medium enterprise (MSME) exporters were greatly hit generally in terms of loss of sales. As a response to this, the Department of Trade and Industry-Export Marketing Bureau (DTI-EMB) is implementing programs that will help the MSME exporters get back on track and adapt to the new normal of doing business.
The Department of Trade and Industry-Export Marketing Bureau (DTI-EMB) and the Philippine Trade and Investment Center in Dubai (PTIC-Dubai) organized a webinar last 24 August to help exporters of beauty and personal care products enter the United Arab Emirates market. “Today’s agenda reflects our willingness to engage the Middle East from every angle and continue reading : DTI webinar promotes beauty and personal care exports to the UAE
28 August 2020 | The Department of Trade and Industry-Export Marketing Bureau (DTI-EMB), in partnership with Philippine Trade and Investment Center in Beijing (PTIC-Beijing), will showcase Philippine service exporters in the country’s online participation in the China International Fair for Trade in Services (CIFTIS) 2020 on 3-7 September 2020.
27 August 2020 | The total trade of the Philippines and India is growing but its full potential has not been fully realized yet. In 2019, India was the Philippines’ 17th export market valued at US$545.45 million contributing only 0.77% share to the total Philippine exports. In comparison, Philippine imports from India amounted to US$1.83 billion or 1.64% of total imports. As such, the Philippines has been active in conducting and participating in various trade promotion activities to explore and maximize the trade opportunities between the two countries.
27 August 2020 | The world’s current problem in plastic waste is escalating. To help solve this problem, some brands and more consumers are limiting their consumption of single-use plastic items.
27 August 2020 | The COVID-19 pandemic disrupted modern human life on an unprecedented scale – effectively forcing a sweeping range of social and economic activities to grind to a screeching halt. The highly contagious virus triggered nearly 100 countries to impose exhaustive restrictions on the movement of people. In the Philippines, rigorous lockdown measures in the entire Luzon area were implemented in the form of “Enhanced Community Quarantine” (ECQ). Schools closed, mass gatherings were prohibited, transportation was suspended and employers – private, and the public – have adopted work-from-home schemes. This pandemic has undoubtedly shocked the entire supply chain to its core.
13 August 2020 | The Philippine coconut fiber has a potential market in Switzerland, Swiss Ambassador to the Philippines Alain Gaschen said on Monday.
10 August 2020 | In a webinar hosted by the Department of Trade and Industry-Export Marketing Bureau (DTI-EMB) last July 20, experts from the cybercrime units of the Department of Information and Communications Technology (DICT) and the National Bureau of Investigation (NBI) bared the tactics of online fraudsters and ways for exporters to defend themselves.
07 August 2020 |DTI-Export Marketing Bureau (DTI-EMB) Director Senen Perlada encouraged Indian pharmaceutical companies to make the Philippines (PH) their manufacturing hub, as the country is an ideal gateway to Southeast Asia.