Saturday, August 06, 2005
New household interior shop targets Southern Cebu folks
Worldwide Interiors opened its third branch in Cebu this week to provide better access to its customers in southern Cebu.
The new branch on N. Bacalso St., Cebu City, which opened on Wednesday, will make it easier for people in the southern part of Cebu to access the company’s products and services, said Ann Marjorie Ong, sales manager of Worldwide Interiors yesterday.
Worldwide Interiors, which has a factory outlet in Mandaue City and a showroom in Lahug, Cebu City, sells local and imported finishing materials like tiles, faucets, plumbing fixtures, kitchen accessories, heaters, shower enclosures, bathroom fixtures, adhesives and mirrors.
Ong said Worldwide Interiors has 100 distributors to supply the needs of its market in the Visayas and Mindanao.
Its mother company, Worldwide Steel Group of Companies, manufactures and sells steel, one of the raw materials used by the construction industry that is now being pummeled by the rising costs of steel.
“The high price of steel is really beyond our control. It’s expensive because the raw materials for steel production, like billets, cost a lot,” Ong told Sun.Star Cebu.
The cost of the raw materials for steel is increasing because of the high demand from big steel manufacturers like China.
Smaller countries and manufacturers have a hard time competing with China, she said. (ALC)
(August 6, 2005 issue)
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