BPCCI - The Voice of the Batangueño Businessmen and Entrepreneurs
The Batangas Province Chamber of Commerce & Industry
(BPCCI) is a non-stock, non-profit and non-political membership organization which actively promotes and upholds the economic interests of businessmen and entrepreneurs in Batangas engaged in manufacturing, trade, commerce, industry, agriculture and services.
BPCCI aims to foster closer relations, understanding and cooperation among the different sectors of the local economy by unifying them into a strong and solid organization for the better enhancement of economic growth and development in Batangas.
Small business promotion has been an issue in economic development for more than 30 years. It is widely recognized that the small business plays an important role in the economic and social development of any country/locality. Many governments have implemented special assistance programs to promote the small business sector but the results were not satisfactory in many cases; one of the reasons being the inadequate involvement of the small business community in designing and implementing the promotions programs.
A chamber of commerce can be the instrument to aggregate, coordinate and represent the interests of small business and to organize its self-help efforts. It can be a suitable body for strengthening the self-help capability of the small business sector and can act as effective vehicles for promotion programs.
The corporate giants and the manufacturing industries on the other hand can manifest their concern for their host locality and join the chamber as part of their corporate social responsibility in a Big-brother, small-brother setting.
Batangas has everything to offer. It has a thriving tourism industry due to its white sand beaches, dive-sites and small islands teeming with marine life, the heritage houses dating back to the Spanish era, and the Taal Volcano and Taal Lake. It is host to an International Shipping and Cargo Port. There are many Industrial Parks/Ecozones and various industries are found along the Batangas Bay and Balayan Bay shorelines, taking advantage of the deep harbor. And, Batangas is the food and egg basket of the Calabarzon and the NCR due to its livestock and poultry industry.
We have to balance the interests of the environmentalists with the needs of the industries and the small businesses. We have to balance between the need to preserve and conserve our heritage and the desire to push forward with industrialization and the demands of rapid development. Stakeholders and locators; residents, migrants and those passing through our waters, and our territories cannot keep on ignoring the call to participate, be heard and contribute.
Join us now. (Membership Forms are downloadable)