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10th National Co-op Summit set for 10-10-10

QUEZON CITY – The Philippine cooperative sector will converge at the Araneta Coliseum for the 10th National Cooperative Summit on October 10, 2010. This summit is said to be the biggest, and definitely historic, event of the cooperative movement in decades.

At the First Anniversary Celebration of the Cooperative Code held February 17 at the Risen Garden of the Quezon City Hall, Philippine Cooperative Center (PCC) Chairman, former Senator Agapito Butz Aquino, announced the theme for the event: “Towards a Shared Vision; One Coop Movement, One Vision, One Nation.

Quezon City Co-op Trade Fair in September, October

To complement the 10th National Summit for Cooperatives in October 2010, the Quezon City (QC) government, through the Sikap Buhay Entrepreneurship and Cooperative Office (SBECO), will launch an 18 day-long coop market and trade fair.

Around 700 cooperatives in the city are expected to participate, including government -based cooperatives.

The 18-day trade fair will showcase products and services of the cooperative movement in the city and the country as a whole. This will be a major breakthrough that will highlight the cooperative sector’s resolve to strengthen its position and register its contribution to the country’s economy, and nation-building, the Sikap Buhay Entrepreneurship and Cooperative Office (SBECO) will organize trade fair and display cooperatives’ products and services along with the city’s entrepreneurs and regional products for the city residents to partake.

NATCCO dept. heads assess mid-year performance

CLARK, PAMPANGA – Department heads and staff of the NATCCO Network assessed their respective mid-year performances vis-à-vis their set targets for 2010 at the NATCCO Employees Mid-Year Assessment & Team Building held at the Fontana Leisure Parks Resort on July 9 to 11.
Training & Consultancy Group Head, Bing Cabal, emceed the opening activity, and asked the staff their expectations in the 3-day affair. “This is a big event. We must consider the early days back when NATCCO was just a small office in Malate (Manila) when there were just a few employees. Here we are filling up an entire ballroom!” she said.