Written By Rey Anthony ChiuCorrespondent
Philippine Information Agency
Inabanga, Bohol - Inabanga's 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, 2007 the cut-off time.
Bohol Countryside Souvenirs Enterprises displayed bags with coco-shell accessories sold the most.
When the booths however were dismantled, Inabanga-based Bohol Beads and Fibers declared a P257,035 cash sales, a report that could put them ahead had they complied with the report cut-off time.
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.
Meanwhile, former industry crafts-giant Antequera, Bohol’s basket capital capped a dismal showing in this year’s Sandugo showcase, a fact most observers ascribe to the death of basket industry father and mayor elect Jaime Quibel.
The 19th Sandugo Showcase 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.
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.
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