Mindanao Daily Business (August 29, 2014)

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Mindanao Daily NEWS BUSINESS . ECONOMY . CORPORATE . BANKING Your Mindanao-wide Business Newspaper

Volume III, No. 083

Editor : Cheng Ordoñez

Kahimunan 2014 Food & Lifestyle Fair at SM City CDO

Friday

See story Page 12 August 29, on 2014

By Mike Baños, Editor-At-Large

Mayor Oscar Moreno and First Lady Arlene lead the ribbon cutting rites for Kahimunan 2014 Food & Lifestyle Fair at SM City Cagayan de Oro. Also in photo are CdO Tourism Council Chair Dottie Pabayo, City Council Tourism Council Chair Candy Darimbang, DOST RD Al Alamban and LEIPO Eileen San Juan. Lending their support are former Promote CdO Chair Ruben Vegafria, former Oro Chamber Pres. Ghaye Alegrio, DTI-X Business Dev. Chief Liza V.M. Alcantar, DOT’s Yoyong Esmedalla, DTI Misor PD Eliza Pabillore and TESDA Misor PD Leo Velez. (photo by Mike Baños, NPN)

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AGAYAN de Oro City - Northern Mindanao’s signature trade fair for small and medium enterprises winds up this weekend at SM City Cagayan de Oro looking forward to global competitiveness with the integration of the ASEAN market next year. An annual regional trade fair organize by the Department of Trade and Industry Region 10 (DTI), the “Kahimunan (Creations of Northern Mindanao) Regional Trade Fair” features the SME products of Bukidnon, Camiguin, Lanao del

Norte, Misamis Occidental and Misamis Oriental from processed food, gifts and housewares, fashion accessories, beverages, home style and living, and health and organic products. Kahimunan is a native term meaning “gathering”. The Kahimunan is a marketing event to enable MSME’s to promote and access new markets for their products. The participants are the recipients of trade trainings and product development seminars prior to the exhibit. During its second out-

ing in 2012, Kahimunan featured the Bamboo Cluster Showcase and “Speed Matching at a local restaurant with 101 SME participants. The activity established a market link between local suppliers and tourism establishments (hotels, restaurants, convenience, and pasalubong stores) wherein the raw material requirements of the tourism establishments’ kitchens such as vegetables, spices, fruits, processed meat and seafood were matched with See kahimunan, page B7

VISIT OUR WEB PORTAL Green Pastures Corp is DOST-X’s Best SETUP Adopter and was the best selling booth in last year’s Kahimunan 2013. (photo by Mike Baños, NPN)

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