History
- The business is owned by Maria Gloria Guifaya and started as a home-based order-type business in 1995. It started with initial capital of Fifty Pesos (P50.00) which they spent in purchasing coconuts, sugar and grinding fee of glutinous rice. The glutinous rice is free because it was their own farm produce since her husband is a farmer and so with the fire woods because this was abundant in their barrio. She also inherited all the utensils and clay oven from her mother.
When the volume of orders got bigger a year after or in 1996, she registered and formally opened her business. Her friends, walk-in customers and relatives would order to her and later, she is getting orders from friends of friends. As more orders came, their family saw the need to expand their business for the convenience of their customers. This time in order to accommodate more customers, they decided to hire more helpers and transferred to a bigger and more conducive place along the highway.
With the assistances of various government agencies like DOST, DTI, TESDA, DA, LGU and the private sectors, they were able to improve their products, constructed modern building that housed their production and display area, participated to various trade fairs, availed financial assistance from the DOST in 2010 amounting to Three Hundred Thousand (P300,000.00) payable for three years at zero interest rate which they used to upgrade their equipment, increase their production of Bibingka and hire more employees. To date, they are now the owner of Maria’s Bibingka Pasalubong Center/ OneStore Hub selling various products coming from her fellow MSMEs in Region 02. Their minimum production of bibingka is around 100 pieces per day and their customers are increasing not only within Region 02 but also from other regions.
Vision
- To be the most successful producer of native rice cake in Region 02.
- A growing business, full of opportunity
- Strive to be a premier local food brand in the local marketplace
Mission
- To make, distribute and sell the finest quality all natural native rice cake and promoting business practices that respect the earth and the environment.
COMPANY CORE VALUES
- PASSION– we never get tired in producing quality product because we love what we do.
- CUSTOMER SATISFACTION-To provide services that will make our customer happy, this way we can secure loyal customer and they can become brand ambassador.
- INNOVATION–continuous development of new products to cope up with customer demand.
- INTEGRITY-to ensure the quality and safety of the food we sell
- SAFETY-to ensure that our products are clean and free from any contaminants.
- QUALITY-to produce high quality but affordable products that will satisfy the needs of the customers.
AWARDS AND RECOGNITION
GAWAD SAKA AWARDEE 2017
DOST BEST SET UP AWARDEE
