January 12, 2008 | Filed under: Press Releases
International consultancy through PUM
PUM sends senior Dutch managers and specialists on specific fields for one or more short periods to advise companies on their specific needs – such as product development. Matching will be done online and a local PUM representative will guide interested companies in going through the application process.
PUM sends the consultant/specialists free of charge. The participating company simply shoulders board, lodging and local inland transportation costs.
January 08, 2008 | Filed under: Press Releases
CFIF checks out Russian Market
November 2007 - A delegation of furniture exporters headed by the Cebu Furniture Industries Foundation (CFIF) President Eric Vincent Casas and Cebu X Chairman Laurie Boquiren visited Mebel in Moscow, Russia for a Study Mission.
Mebel, the International Exhibition of Furniture, Fittings and Upholstery, now on its 19th year ran from November 12-16, 2007. Amidst the apparently challenging traffic situation in the largest country in the world, the group found the engagement a successful one having been able to touch base with the show organizers, the Chamber of Commerce and Industry of the Russian Federation and the Philippine Embassy in Russia.
The Cebu delegation was composed of the top management of APY Cane Inc., Castilex Industrial Corp., Coast Pacific Manufacturing Corp., Diamond Cane International, Inc., F & R Ceniza Family Trading Corp., Kirsten International Phils. Inc. and Pan Arts Accessories. These dynamic...(read more)
June 30, 2007 | Filed under: Press Releases
Furniture Industry Forum Organized by CFIF
The Philippine furniture export industry, initially touted as one of the country's top dollar earners, is in the midst of one of the most challenging times in its history. The continued appreciation of the peso, the softening of the US market, and the emergence of new players in the global market had taken its toll on the industry resulting to several closures, downsizing and business loses.
It's a sink or swim situation and exporters are not taking it sitting down.
As part of its effort to bring together industry players and helping stakeholders find ways to ride the waves, the Cebu Furniture Industries Foundation (CFIF), in cooperation with the University of San Carlos, CIDA Pearl 2 and the German Development Service or DED will hold a forum dubbed "Sink or Swim?: The Furniture Export Industry Riding the Waves" slated on July 10, 2007 at the CAFA Auditorium, University of San Carlos, Talamban campus.
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