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www.philsme.com

PhilippineSMEBusinessExpo

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SMX CONVENTION CENTER MANILAMALL OF ASIA COMPLEX, PASAY CITY

NOV 12-13, 2019

Post Event SUMMARY 150

Exhibitors250Smart Brands

1,900Exhibit Space (sqm)

THOUSANDSof Expected Visitors

98%Build New Business

Relationships

98%Overwhelmed with

the Quality of Visitors

96%Happy with

Visitors Traffic

94%Generated

Sales

The 9th Philippine SME Business Expo & Conference (PHILSME) was successfully held last November 12 & 13, 2019 at the SMX Convention Center Manila, Mall of Asia Complex,Pasay City, Metro Manila, Philippines.

AboutThe Event PHILSME is the Philippines’ Largest Business-2-Business Expo, Conference, and Networking Event dedicated to empower the Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) here in the Philippines and the ASEAN Economic Community.

The two-day business event presented business networking activities for SMEs composed of an expo of over 250 smart business solutions & opportunities, conference talks, a score of product & business presentations, technological innovations village, and business networking area - ALL IN ONE PLACE.

Exhibitors’ Breakdown70%

30%

BusinessSolutions

BusinessOpportunities

32 %26 %18 %11 %05 %05 %03 %

Food FranchisingDistributorship & DealershipNon-Food FranchisingProperties & Real EstateFood & BeverageMedia, Government & AssociationsMulti-level Marketing

Business Opportunities27 %16 %11 % 10 % 07 %07 %06 %04 %03 %03 %03 %03 %

IT SolutionsOffice Supplies & Industrial EquipmentFinancial TechnologyBusiness Financing & InsuranceBusiness ConsultingMarketing & AdvertisingAccounting & PayrollTelecommunicationsLogisticsHuman Resources & RecruitmentHMO ProvidersWorkspaces

Business Solutions

Demographics of Visitors The 9th edition of PHILSME welcomed over 4,000+ online and walk-in expo attendees whose demographics comprised of business owners & entrepreneurs, interested franchisees, sales & marketing officers, director, managers & executives, students, foreign guests, members of media & press among others.

2%3%

6%

10%

13%

15% 20%

31%

Business Owners & Entrepreneurs

Sales & Marketing Officers

Students

Media & Press

Interested Franchisees

Directors, Managers & Executives

Foreign Guest

Others

Opening Ceremony

The opening ceremony was held on November 12 graced by the following: (L-R) Maria Carlota Kim (from HP Philippines); Carla Jean Roa (Sales Executive from Alkaviva Waters Philippines); Trixie Esguerra (Host); Andrew Francisco (Chief Finance Officer of Fresh-works, Inc.); Kristine Pesquisa (Marketing and Sustainability Officer of Esquire Financing); David Abrenilla (CEO & Founder of PHILSME); Director Jerry Clavesillas (DTI-BSMED Bureau Director); Ana Joy Rocero (Regus & Spaces by IWG); Patrick Gentry (CEO & Founder, Sprout Solutions Inc.) & Rich Cortez (Sales Coordinator of DV Boer Farm International).

David AbrenillaChief Events Officer of Mediacom Solutions, Inc.Founder of Philippine SME Business Expo & Conference

David formally opens the 9th PHILSME throughexpressing his sincerest gratitude to all sponsors,exhibitors, visitors, and all the partners who madethe 9th PHILSME truly possible.

Hon. Jerry ClavesillasDirectorBureau of Small and Medium Enterprise DevelopmentDepartment of Trade and Industry

Director Clavesillas expresses how gratefulDTI is for having events like PHILSME that will bebeneficial to all emerging entrepreneurs in thecountry. He is looking forward to a partnership with Mediacom to organize events like this inpartnership with the government that will fostergrowth for all MSMEs.

Sponsors Gold Sponsors Silver Sponsors

Ersao offers Taiwanese dishes with over 45 branches nationwide and is now open forfranchising.

Regus and Spaces are workspace brands under the International Work-place Group. They offer workspace solutions to help more than 2.5 million people and their businesses to work more productively.

Esquire Financing provides fast, hassle-free, and non-collateral business loans for SMEs ranging from PHP 100,000 to PHP 10,000,000.

Alkaviva Waters Philippines is one of the leading water station franchises in the Philippines catering all kinds of water treatment from water station business, industrial, restaurant & residential.

i4 Asia Inc. is one of the best website and digitalsolutions companies in the Philippines providingtech support services & cloud solutions services.

DV Boer Farm International is the country’s firstcommercialstud farm promoting modern farming andgoat venture services.

HP Philippines is an American multinationalinformation technology company offering IT,technology & enterprise products, solutions& services.

Sprout Solutions automates all the administrativetasks around HR and Payroll - 100% automatedtimekeeping from clock-in to payout. services.

Exhibitors Highlights & Networking Business Solutions

Posible offers SMEs an all-in-onedigital business platform frombills payment, money padala,and loading.

Digiflash Concept Corporationis an IT solutions company thatfocuses on softwaredevelopment.

Salarium offers payroll systemssoftware for SMEs. It tracksattendance to payout all-in-onebiometric software.

COCOGEN provides quality non-life insurance for SMEs.

American Technologiesprovides highly-engineeredIT solutions for SMEs.

Zonac provides strategic supportservices to micro, small andmedium enterprises to makeinternal systems and processes be results-oriented.

InfinitUs Marketing Solutionsprovides end-to-end marketingsolutions from online publicity,event planning & managementto other creative pursuits.

ActionPack365 offersIT solutions such as IT supportservices and Microsoft Office 365.

Exhibitors Highlights & Networking Business Opportunities

Seaoil offers gas station franchising ventures.

Tomochan Ramen Express is afood franchisor of the famousauthentic Japanese ramen.

Potato Giant offers food franchising of their famoushomemade potato snacks.

SR Marzfuel is open for aspiringentrepreneurs who want to starta gas station business.

Nephro Plus Consultancyoffers dialysis clinic franchise.

Mega Food Cart offerscart-based food franchise concepts.

Skin Magical is alicensed cosmetic distributorof skin care products.

Go For Gold offers a widevariety of food andnon-food franchise concepts.

Innovation Village The Technological Start-up Innovations Village was opened once again to feature tech start-up companies offering the latest tech business solutions for SMEs.

360 Logics Solutions BIPO Service Philippines

First Circle

PitakaMo IT Solutions Powerlife Distribution Sharebate Tilus-FR IT Solutions

Megapay

DiscerePlus

Pezza PayGMO-Z.com Philippines Integra Solutions & Service Provider

CareHealth Plus Int’l System Credit Information Corporation

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Expo Presentation Area

Exhibitors’ Testimonials

The opening ceremony was held on November 12 graced by the following: (L-R) Maria Carlota Kim (from HP Philippines); Carla Jean Roa (Sales Executive from Alkaviva Waters Philippines); Trixie Esguerra (Host); Andrew Francisco (Chief Finance Officer of Fresh-works, Inc.); Kristine Pesquisa (Marketing and Sustainability Officer of Esquire Financing); David Abrenilla (CEO & Founder of PHILSME); Director Jerry Clavesillas (DTI-BSMED Bureau Director); Ana Joy Rocero (Regus & Spaces by IWG); Patrick Gentry (CEO & Founder, Sprout Solutions Inc.) & Rich Cortez (Sales Coordinator of DV Boer Farm International).

“ The delegates and attendees here fits our company & services. There is a good mix of entrepreneurs who attended this event. It’s a good representation as well of our compa-ny to cater to those businesses who would like to t vry the co-working space and to introduce as well our franchise offering.

So far it’s good. Actually, I had a speaking engagement here and good to know that right after that, there are two interested parties who visited our booth today to know more about our services. ”

Rowena NatividadHead of PartnershipGrowth Regus & Spaces by IWG

“ Actually, we are here every year because we believe in the potential of businesses here. We want to help businesses. For us to reach them out, we’re here, we introduce our compa-ny if they want to expand their business.

We are truly satisfied in this event. All of the participants here are quality leads. Through the years, PHILSME never failed us. You have a wide reach for this year. ”

“ One of the things that SMEs are struggling here in the Philippines is government compliance, dealing with processing payroll, computing taxes, and remitting properly to the government they don’t get into trouble and we at Sprout totally automate the entire process so we have a big impact to all small businesses her.

Yeah, I love it. PHILSME has been amazing. All of the booths here, a ton of really engaged people. There are a lot of people who visited our booth. It’s been great! ”

Sherylyn ElizaldeInbound Sales OfficerEsquire Financing

“ We at Freshworks provides custom-er engagement solutions. That’s why we're here to help SMEs to help them start their business. Actually, it’s a very productive & active day here. The two days are very hectic for us due to a lot of foot traffic and we are very loving it. ”

Remalyn MacapagalManagerFreshworks

“ Ohhh, this has been wonderful. It’s been a great experience, very professional. The whole thing is beyond my expectations really. We have gone to a lot of expos, this is the best one we’ve been to. ”

Bob HubbardCo-Founder & Director Alpha Targeting

“ We joined PHILSME for brand awareness and we would like to use this platform to open the website industry to new businesses ‘coz right now to get a website, you need to pay a huge sum of money so we wanted to break that barrier between website developers and businesses here in the Philippines.

Actually, yesterday we had a lot of business owners coming in as well as marketing directors and operations directors. ”

Queenie RamirezBusiness DeveloperZ.com Philippines

Patrick GentryCo-Founder & CEOSprout Solutions

“ We joined this expo to advertise our business and to better understand the demands of the market. Being here, we talked with a lot of customers for us to better understand what they need for a payroll system so we could adapt it to our system to better cater to their needs.

I am satisfied with the event. There were a lot of potential customers and partners. ”

Matthew Allen Go FounderBitmattic IT Solutions

“ Our purpose of joining here at PHILSME is to expand and help the Filipino SMEs. We believe in the opportunity for growth that we continually pursue at HP. So far, being here is so good, there are a lot of people. It’s a thumbs-up for us. ”

Kean ManalangProduct Manager HP Philippines Commercial

Visitors’ Testimonials

“ This expo is actually more than what

I have expected. It featured a lot of

business, actually diverse companies

with different lines of business. You

can also get more than what you are

looking for and you can even get to

know the businesses you even heard

of. ”

Johann De GuzmanVisitor

“ What I like about this expo is that it

is very organized. It is easy to explore.

One good example is if you are look-

ing for tech solutions, you can visit

the Innovations Village. Booths are

easily to be visited. There are a lot of

business solutions in here for which

can surely help me with my

business. ”

Dawn Grace LlagasVisitor

The 9th Philippine SME Business Conference

9th Philippine SME Business Conference is a one-day interactive business conference to help SMEs’ learn how to grow their business. Thisedition’s conference is sponsored by training provider - Apollo Academy.

Conference speakers shared about the latest tips, trends and innovations in areas of sales, marketing, e-commerce, customer service,management, leadership, personal & professional development, franchising, and businessinnovation.

The conference was held on November 13, 2019 at the Meeting Room 10 of SMX Convention Center Manila.

Conference Talks

Coach Jonecca San Pascual, a licensed Neuro-Linguistic Programming (NLP) sales coach, talks about “Mind Triggering Techniques in

Selling”.

TV Host Howell Mabalot, President & Chief Trainer of

HVM Training, shares strategies on how to “Weigh

the Temper: Handling Different Customer

Concerns”.

Atty. Barney Almazar, Managing Director of Gulf

Law Consulting, shares “The Best Organizational

Structures for SMEs”.

Shey Montes Lumbes, Marketing Manager of RK

Franchise Consultancy, gives pointers on “How to Invest in

the Right Franchise?”.

International Corporate Trainer & Speaker Teresa

Gumap-as Dumadag, President & Founder of Full Life Cube, shares insights in “Transforming SME Business

Owners to Visionary Business Leaders”.

Fro Oliva, Co-Founder of Apollo Academy, introduces

“The Different Phases of Entrepreneurship”.

Digimarketing enthusiast Mannix Pabalan gives an overview of the “Effective

Marketing Messaging Techniques in the Digital

Space”.

PH’s Marketing SenseiJerry Yao, Owner of Jericat

Food Cart, talks about “Redefining Customer Shopping Experience through Omnichannel

Marketing”.

Shopee PH’s Senior Associ-ate for Business Develop-ment Carol Sy discusses

“How e-Commerce Can Help SMEs Scale-up and Expand

their Businesses?”.

TV Host, Author & Entrepre-neur RJ Ledesma,

Co-Founder of Mercato Centrale, gives “Techniques in Bringing Innovations to

Your Business.”

Conference Testimonials

I really enjoyed giving the talk right now because as a shared entrepreneur, I am always inspired by talking and meeting new people that’s where you get new ideas, perspective, and new ways to grow your business and new pinpoints to address. So it's always a fruitful experience working together with SMEs.

RJ LedesmaCo-Founder Mercato Centrale Group

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The people at the conference are veryparticipative. They are very eager in learning digital marketing to be applied to their businesses. With more people beingentrepreneurial nowadays, I think digital marketing can help them.

Mannix PabalanFounder & CEOHashtag Digital

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The conference is so amazing. The people are highly-participative and highly-engaged. The questions were never ending after talk, I wish we had a lot of time. It only shows that the people are receptive of what was being presented and that they wanted to learn something more. Because of that, I believe we should do more of this!

Howell MabalotTV Host & Chief Trainer HVM Training

“ “All speakers are very informative. So we’re able to learn a lot from them, especially in terms of handling customers, marketing mix, and to change our mindset from being corpo-rate to entrepreneurial. Everything has been packed in one whole day and we learned a lot from those speakers.

Dale BinallaConference Attendee

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I really found the whole conference very engag-ing, informative, mind-boggling and challenging. The speakers were able to pose challenges, impart new knowledge, and deepen some knowledge we already know.

Abigail Tambalo Conference Attendee

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