Mary Grace Arboleda-Young, president of Cordillera Coffee. Today, her annual sales is around P100,000 and has even helped her community with livelihood opportunities. She is one of the first in producing pili pulp oil with her Merle’s Pili and Native Products. With only P2,000, Merle Paete started her own pili processing company in 2000. She studied about organic products and soon, she started manufacturing products such as soaps, shampoos and balms made out of real honey sourced from their own bee farm. ![]() Because of her leadership, she was able to organize and facilitate the rationing of water in their area.Įdilee Omoyon of Milea Bee Farm started her business because of her son’s skin condition. Because of the need for clean water in her community, she formed a company called Samahang Tubig Maynilad which applied for a water meter from Maynilad. In 2016, she founded The Make Peace Bakery which is a social enterprise that empowers youth through the art of baking.įrom being a public school teacher, Lydia Codiñera decided to become an entrepreneur in 2009. Eventually, she was able to purchase boats and open a small tourist inn named Uno Duz Tourist Inn.Īngelene Calungcaguin started baking cookies for her project “Make Peace Cookies” which is sold to relatives and friends to benefit their charity work in the orphanage and community in Payatas. With that capital, she opened a small sari-sari store and engaged in direct selling. First on our micro category is Abdulia Austria who started her entrepreneurial journey with just P600. We are also recognizing micro entrepreneurs who possess qualities of a positive and persevering entrepreneur. In fact, she has her own agricultural training center named Flor’s Garden. Apart from her corporate duties, Flor is also active in environment protection and agriculture. Currently, she chairs Philippine National Bank, one of the leading banks in the country. She has been in the banking and finance industry for more than 40 years. Today, she leads Aspen Philippines, a subsidiary of Aspen Pharmacare, one of the biggest pharmaceutical companies in the world.Īnother intrapreneur awardee on our list is Flor Tarriela. She started her career as a promo representative of a pharmaceutical company. ![]() Marcelina Ace Itchon is the president and CEO of Aspen Philippines. If you think the corporate world is still led by men, think of these women intrapreneurs who are leading large corporations. When she was still an undergraduate student at the University of the Philippines taking up Communication Research, Kathleen Yu founded Rumarocket which uses machine algorithms to organize and synthesize data for hiring and talent management of many companies. Currently, MFT Group has investments in various industries such as pharmaceutical, financing, real estate, lifestyle products, and investments.Įven in the technology industry, women know their game. At a young age, Mica is considered as one of the pioneers in venture capital investments. Javelosa is recognized under the enabler category because of her efforts to provide greater market access to micro and small entrepreneurs for their artisan products.Īnother enabling women entrepreneur is Mica Tan of MFT Group of Companies. ![]() Jeannie Javelosa of Great-Women and ECHOstore shows how women achieve greater things when they help each other. The Miss Teen Philippines titlist has shown how Filipinas are more than just beauty queens as she leads a manpower composed of persons with disabilities and women in her community. P roject Lily PH manufactures Eco-Uling which are charcoals made of water hyacinth, agri-forest wastes and coconut husks. Young entrepreneur Aya Fernandez turned her school science project into an eco-friendly social enterprise. We present these 20 Inspiring Filipina Entrepreneurs awarded by Go Negosyo for being the epitome of grace and leadership of their respective enterprises. As the world celebrates International Women’s Day, GoodNewsPilipinas salutes Filipina entrepreneurs who have inspired business communities and the families in affirming the work-life balance for women is possible in the Philippines.
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