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INABANGA.
one-town-one-product (OTOP) Center's raffia-based crafts amassed
a total of P8,189,377 in cash and bookings to emerge as Bohol's
most promising crafts industry in this year's Sandugo Products
and Lifestyle Fair held last week at the Island City Mall.
But
fair organizers however only considered cash sales in their
top sellers list so that Tubigon-based Bohol Countryside Souvenirs
Enterprises managed by Ernesto Polan bagged the best-seller
award with P230,675 in reported cash sales as of July 21,
the cut-off time.
Bohol
Countryside Souvenirs Enterprises displayed bags with coco-shell
accessories sold the most.
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In
booked sales, next to Inabanga OTOP Center is Pinayagan-based
Tubigon Loom-weavers' Multi-Purpose Cooperative which
generated P5,040,000 to be the fair's next most promising
industry.
Bohol
Countryside Souvenir Enterprises netted P3,480,675 in
cash and booked sales to head the top three sellers.
The
19th Sandugo Product and Lifestyle Fair has billed a
P26,340,833 sales, data from the sales report furnished
by the fair organizer, the Department of Trade and Industry
states.
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The
net sales were computed according to cash and booked sales
for the 53 exhibitors from Bohol, the Visayas and some from
as far as Luzon, fair organizers said.
The
fair, which has been the DTI venue for lending the marketing
and promotional exposures for local products as well as boost
micro-enterprises in the country sides has also become a venue
for stout business deals that nourish small community economies
in the country.
In
the past years, the DTI adopted the Japanese borrowed concept
of One-Town-One Product to showcase creative attempts at mainstreaming
design while focusing on craftsmanship, which lends the needed
international market interest on local products, a DTI official
said.
Among
the top ten cash best sellers are Partnership and Access Center
in Albay, Inabanga OTOP Center, Bahandi Producers Association
of Eastern Visayas, Bol-anon United Sectors Working for the
Advancement of Community Concerns, and Cordillera Network
of NGOS and POS. (rachiu/PIA)
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