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Bureau of Domestic Trade (BDT) sells publications, which are source of information and guide for manufacturers and exporters looking for local suppliers. It is also useful for those looking for partnerships, subcontracting, distributorship, and other business cooperation arrangements.

Paano Maging Supplier, Isang Gabay Para sa SMEs (10 booklets, Tagalog version) booklets/guidebooks that contain basic guidelines and requirements of various buyers that a supplier should know to help them in selling their products and/or services to major buyers such as supermarket, office and school supplies store, department store, hotel and resort, government office, and fastfood and restaurant chain. It is also a guide for would-be entrepreneurs on how to start a business.

Supermarket
Office and School Supplies Store
Department Store
Hotel and Resort
Pamahalaan
Fastfood and Restaurant Chain
Subcontractor
Paano Maging Certified Food Supplier?
Paano Magbenta ng Produkto o Serbisyo?
Paano Maging Halal Certified Food Supplier?

Source Book for Food Manufacturing (3 editions) contains directory of suppliers of food products, equipment, packaging, and services related to food sector.

First publication covers sources in Metro Manila and was published in 2005.
Second edition covers suppliers of Mindanao food sectors and was published in 2008.
Third publication covers sources in South Luzon to be published in 2009.

Philippine Raw Materials Catalogue (4 editions - yearly publication) is a series of publications, which showcase a variety of indigenous raw materials used in manufacturing Philippine products. It provides the scientific names of raw materials, its biological structures, economic uses, and places in the country where they can be found. It also contains list of raw material suppliers and contact information.

Published in 2005 - The Philippine Raw Materials Catalogue: Wearable, Gifts and Holiday Décor volume features a variety of indigenous raw materials used in wearable, gifts and holiday decors such as bamboo, bast fiber, climbing ferns, reeds, herbs, erect palms, climbing palms (rattan), sedges and rushes, screw pines (pandan), woody pines, leather, seashells, beads and components.
Published in 2006 - The Philippine Raw Materials Catalogue: Furniture, Furnishings, and Loomweaving volume features raw materials used in the furniture, furnishings and loomweaving industries such as rushes, grasses, woody vines, screwpines, erect palms, bamboo, tree plantation species, fibers, fossilized/skeletonized leaves, and butterfly.
Published in 2007 - The Philippine Raw Materials Catalogue: Beads, Carabao Horns and Bones, and Seashells volume features the uses of beads, carabao horns and bones, and seashells in manufacturing Philippine products.
Published in 2008 - The Philippine Raw Materials Catalogue: Manila Palm, Banana, Corn, Coconut, Fish Scale, Recycled, Tahong, Water Hyacinth, and Sabutan

Trade Associations Directory 2006 – 2007 (available in print and CD installer) is updated and published every two years. It contains lists of various trade association members with its contact details and product/service lines. It covers the following sectors:
        -    Agricultural products - Info-tech and electrical products and services
        -    Automotive parts and accessories    - Metal products
        -    Chamber of Commerce - Non-metal products
        -    Chemical and chemical products    - Packaging
        -    Construction - Paper products
        -    Fashion accessories - Petroleum
        -    Franchise - Pharmaceuticals
        -    Fresh and processed foods - Resource based products
        -    Furniture and furnishings - Retail
        -    Garments - Services
        -    Gifts, toys and housewares - Others not elsewhere classified
        -    Hotel and restaurants

Philippine Food Product Catalogue (available in print and CD installer) features 111 Philippine manufacturers/exporters offering a wide array of products in the following food sectors:

-    Snack foods
-    Baked products
-    Processed fruits and vegetables
-    Wines and beverages
-    Sauces and condiments
-    Processed meat products
-    Frozen/processed marine products
-    Organic and natural products
-    Other food products

It also features the Philippine food industries, regional and provincial food products/delicacies, and One Town, One Product (OTOP-Philippines) Program.

The BDT is also planning to develop an On-line Philippine Food Product Catalogue, which is a web-based info system with facilities to search food products by company, brand name and/or location of the company. Details on the company will be updated every year.

Philippine Subcontractors/Contractors Directory aims to introduce and match SMEs with new markets, specifically big and institutional buyers who are in need of suppliers and subcontractors of raw materials, products parts, components, and services essential to their production. The Directory includes garments/textile, footwear, canes, vines, fiber weaving, ceramics, stoneware, earthenware, Christmas and other holiday decors, processed food, paper and paper products, toys, furniture and furnishings, packaging, toll packing, fashion accessories, and handicrafts sectors.

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