Jimenez LGU awards plaques to Pilmico staff

Mario L. Cuezon
April 8, 2008


The local government unit of Jimenez, Misamis Occidental under Mayor Ranulfo B. Limquimbo gave plaques to Pilmico Foods Corporation and four of its staff for their active support to the processed foods or bakery sector of the town and the province of Misamis Occidental.
In simple rites held during the 1st Pilmico Open Invitational Baking Contest last April 7 afternoon at the town’s municipal hall, Marilyn Q. Medez, the mayor’s secretary, handed the plaques to Dan Kristin C. Labucana and Samuel S. Cabanilla for themselves and for Pilmico and colleagues.
Limquimbo cited Pilmico’s donation of cash for plaques, flour and t-shirts for the Pilmico Baking School at Jimenez and Fiesta Baking Contest last year and this year’s 1st Pilmico-sponsored contest. He also cited the provision of trainors and raw materials for the lumpia wrapper and pancit production and other trainings.
“The generous support somehow filled the gap in institutional support for the food industry and buoyed the spirits of our stakeholders,” the plaque reads.
Pilmico’s sales manager, Jerson Laban, was awarded a plaque for making possible the donations to the bakery sector in the said town. He had helped made the trainings and contests possible through his generous support.
The plaque for Laban said, “The baking contests helped in product development and marketing. The baking seminars taught our constituents new skills.”
Sheila L. Cuyos of the marketing department in Pilmico’s Cebu office was also awarded a plaque for facilitating project proposals to the top management requesting for support for contests and trainings.
“Her fast action and kind support though she hardly knows us had buoyed the spirits of our stakeholders in the food industry,” the plaque for Cuyos reads.
Dan Kristin C. Labucana and Samuel S. Cabanilla were also awarded plaques. The two had conducted two trainings in the said town last year, one on bread making and another on lumpia wrapper and pancit production.
The plaque says that Labucana’s lectures in baking seminars from 2005 to 2007 had “greatly added to the knowledge of participants on how to make breads and cakes, lumpia wrappers and noodles, even to the point of lecturing in Matugas Bajo, eight kilometers from our poblacion.”
The plaque for Labucana further cited his “consultancies on problems of baking and scoring in contests” which “had helped in upgrading the standards of the industry.”
Cabanilla was cited “for being a trainor in baking seminars in 2007 where he shared his experiences and knowledge on making bread, noodles and lumpia wrapper even to the point of lecturing in Matugas Bajo, eight kilometers from our poblacion.” He was also cited for “his consultancies on problems of bakers which participants will forever treasure.”