WoMeN iN busiNess - Planters Development Bank
WoMeN iN busiNess - Planters Development Bank
WoMeN iN busiNess - Planters Development Bank
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Nelson Balicao,<br />
Merle’s partner<br />
in life and in<br />
business.<br />
24<br />
in the Laguna industrial park, they<br />
are set to open a branch in SM Mall<br />
in calamba city, Laguna by June of<br />
this year.<br />
Mer-nel’s has acquired four<br />
delivery vehicles that bring cakes<br />
to places as far as Lucena in Quezon<br />
province and in high-profile city<br />
wedding venues like Fernwood<br />
Gardens in Quezon city. Some of<br />
their cakes have even been handdelivered<br />
to other countries like<br />
Singapore, holland and italy as<br />
“pasalubongs.”<br />
nowadays, typical orders<br />
include a one-year contract to<br />
supply birthday cakes for company<br />
employees and orders of 1,000 small<br />
moist chocolate heart-shaped cakes<br />
given as gifts.<br />
MER-NEL’S PLACE<br />
after thirty years of consistent<br />
product quality and undiminished<br />
love for their business, Merle and<br />
nelson’s lifetime dream came into<br />
fruition on august 8, 2008.<br />
Through the assistance of<br />
plantersbank, Mer-nel’s place, a<br />
three-floor event venue that houses<br />
a beautiful cake store and the<br />
couple’s very own catering business<br />
opened to the public.<br />
Far from their humble beginnings<br />
at the university cafeteria,<br />
Mer-nel’s dine-in restaurant is<br />
equipped with an extravagant<br />
kitchen on the ground floor. on the<br />
second and third floors, function
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