IN November 2017 a Filipino company, C and H Cosmetic Industry, got its Municipal Permit in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) to distribute their products in the mainstream market and Filipino stores.
This February, an initial order for P9 million worth of herbal whitening soap and cosmetics will be shipped to the UAE. This all happened after they joined the Outbound Business Matching Mission (OBM) to the Middle East organized by the Export Marketing Bureau (EMB) of the Department of Trade and Industry in November 2016.
The company’s president, Henry Raca, is thankful to the EMB and to Eric Elnar, Philippine Commercial Attache based in the UAE, for the opportunity to join the mission that led them to find a distributor in the UAE. He said, “We are very proud to be one of the small and medium enterprise [SME] manufacturers able to create Filipino products that can compete globally.”
Mary Jane Raca, wife of Henry and the company’s vice president for Sales and Marketing, had a vision to have a small business of whitening soap since she is really fond of whitening her skin. This led to the establishment of C and H Cosmetic Industry in 2006. The husband and wife team produced their own brands called Allwhite Placenta, Allwhite Glutathione and Skinblend Kojic, Skinblend Kojic Glutha and Skinblend Carrot with coconut-based oil as the main ingredient. At present, C and H Cosmetic products are distributed in the US, Canada, Malaysia, Singapore, Brunei Darussalam and Taiwan.