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Uniwide Sales, Inc. was a retail operator in Metro Manila, Philippines.It was incorporated in January 1975 by Chinese Filipino entrepreneur Jimmy Gow to operate Uniwide commercial shopping centers, such as leasing commercial spaces within the compound of their malls and department stores.
The retail industry in the Philippines is an important contributor to the national economy as it accounts for approximately 15% of the country's total Gross National Product (GNP) and 33% of the entire services sector. It employs some 5.25 million people, representing 18% of the country's workforce.
A sari-sari store, anglicized as neighborhood sundry store, [1] is a convenience store found in the Philippines. The word sari-sari is Tagalog meaning "variety" or "sundry". Such stores occupy an important economic and social location in a Filipino community and are ubiquitous in neighborhoods and along streets.
COD Department Store? 1: 1925: 2003: Closed down COD Cubao due to low sales Fairmart: Sta Cruz Manila: 2: 1978: 2004: Acquired By Metro Retail Stores Group: Plaza Fair: Sta Cruz Manila: 7: 1978: 2004: Acquired By Metro Retail Stores Group: Uniwide Sales: Parañaque and Las Piñas: 2: 1975: 2013
You’ve just stumbled upon your dream thrift store find. For a grand total of $4.99. It doesn’t happen often, but when it does, there’s only one thing to do—brag a little.
A Goldilocks Bakeshop branch (2009) On May 15, 1966, Chinese Filipino sisters, Milagros Leelin Yee and Clarita Leelin Go, and their sister-in-law Doris Wilson Leelin, opened the first Goldilocks store on a 70-square-meter (750 sq ft) space on the ground floor of a three-story building along Pasong Tamo Street in Makati and started with only 10 employees.
Prior to the Pacific War, Escolta Street was also home to the city's first standalone department stores, including H.E. Heacock, until then the largest department store in the Philippines, opening in 1900, and the Aguinaldo Department Store, the most premium store in the Philippines opening in 1921. Other notable stores in the 1920s and 1930s ...
Independent specialty stores, many of whom have been in business for decades, are using every weapon in their arsenals to fight this invisible enemy that has upended their businesses and their ...