NEGOSYO CENTERS. The establishment of the Negosyo Centers in Antique province enabled more businessmen to register their businesses with the DTI Antique provincial office. In the photo, micro small and medium entrepreneurs attend DTI briefing on how to apply for their business name registration and avail other services like the Kapatid Mentor Me Program. (PNA photo by Annabel Consuelo J. Petinglay)
SAN JOSE DE BUENAVISTA, Antique -- The establishment of Negosyo Centers (NCs) throughout the 18 municipalities of the province of Antique gave a big boost to the Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) Antique provincial office business name registration.
DTI Antique information officer Engr. Lynna Joy Cardinal said in an interview Thursday that from January to November 2019 they have already registered 1,047 business names of which there were 792 as new registrations and 255 renewals.
“With the Negosyo Centers established in all 18 municipalities of the province the local businessmen were encouraged to register their businesses,” she said.
Although they no longer expect more businessmen to apply for their business name registration as the year is already about to end, then the 1,047 business name registration is already quite high, she added.
“For the entire year in 2018, there were 1,405 applications for business name registration then composed of 1,106 new and 299 renewal,” Cardinal said.
She said the lesser number of business name registrations this year as compared to last year could be due to the fact that numerous businessmen in the province had already applied previously. “The DTI business name registration is then valid for five years.”
Cardinal added that most of these business name registrations in Antique were then applied for by the businessmen within their municipalities where there are now NCs established, thus, sparing them from traveling to San Jose de Buenavista.
“In 2016, when the first Negosyo Centers were established the business name registration reached 1,402 of which 1,202 were new business registrations and the remaining 200 as renewal,” she said.
The business name registration in 2017 further increased to 1,900 of which 1,672 were new and 228 were renewals. (PNA)
