Negros Firm Awarded Most Outstanding Medium Enterprise

Negros firm Vicmik Enterprises was awarded on July 8, 2009 the first-ever Presidential Awards for Outstanding Micro, Small and Medium Enterprise.

Vicmik Enterprises was one of nine Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises (MSME) in Luzon, Visayas and Mindanao who received the awards. Vicmik Enterprises received the award for Medium category in Visayas. The award was received by its President, Isabel Lovina.

Vicmik Enterprises is located  in Brgy. Ubay, Pulupandan, Negros Occidental. It combines the traditional craft of hand-smocking and hand-embroidery with European-inspired design to create children’s apparel, infants’ clothing and ladies’ sleepwear.

The palace also awarded the Presidential Citations for best practices in MSME promotion and development to 26 private institutions and LGUs.

The awarding is part of the week-long activities of the Micro, Small and Medium Enterprise Development (MSMED) Week celebrated every second week of July in pursuance of Republic Act No. 9501, the Magna Carta for MSMEs, which the President signed in May last year.