Barangay Dela Paz (English)

Name: Gloria Espiritu

Age: 61
Address: 3373 Almeda Subd. Dela Paz Biñan

1. How many years have you been producing shoes?

- When we are just a teenager, we’re making slippers. Then when we became married, we get
suppliers. We’re making slippers for almost 20 years.
2. How did you learn making shoes?
- Our parents taught us how to make slippers. They are making shoes, slippers in the past.
3. What type of shoes, that is in demand, have you been producing?
- Slippers that is only for girls.
4. Do you design your own product?
- Yes, we are the one who’s making the sample/design.
5. Are you using any kind of machinery when producing your products?
- No, we are just using our hands to make slippers.
6. Do you sell your shoes here in Biñan? (Do you sell your products in other places?)
- Yes, we’re selling our slippers in the market. Yes, we’re selling slippers in other places like
Landayan, Cabuyao, we sell in Laguna only.
7. What is the form of business organization are you involved?
- None, this business is ours only.
8. As the population increases in Biñan, is are there any direct effect in the demand of shoes in
Biñan?
- I think there is no direct effect because we didn’t change the price of our products.
9. When did the production of shoes increase and decrease?
- It’s increasing when there are people who are ordering slippers and it’s increasing when
September comes up to December, they will buy for Christmas Gifts. It’s decreasing when
there are no people are ordering slippers.
10. In your opinion, do you think Biñan can still be known in terms of shoe-making industry?
- Yes. Biñan is still known especially Dela Paz and Malaban.
11. Is there any difference between the shoe-making industry in Biñan then and now? If yes, what
are the difference? If none, state why does it remain the same?
- In the past, the price is not that expensive. Nowadays, it’s expensive and the materials are
increasing that’s why it’s changing. Before, it was easy. But now, it’s quite difficult because
there are many styles that we used in making shoes. Yes, style. You will own your own style
too, and if your shoes is in demand, you will have to do many samples/designs, different
kind of shoes, slippers.
12. What are the hindrances or factors that affects in producing and selling shoes?
- If you are lack of investment, you don’t have materials too, lack of glue, lack of cloth. That’s
the problem if your sales are not increasing, you can’t make slippers.
Name: Alex Alino
Age: 44
Address: Almazora Subdivision

1. How many years have you been producing shoes?

- It is just a few year, maybe 1 year.
2. How did you learn making shoes?
- We learn it analyze and watching into others.
3. What type of shoes, that is in demand, have you been producing?
- Just like these sandals, slippers. only for girls.
4. Do you design your own product?
- Yes, the owner of this.
5. Are you using any kind of machinery when producing your products?
- No, it is just a manual.
6. Do you sell your shoes here in Biñan? (Do you sell your products in other places?)
- In different places, I didn’t know because I am just a worker here, there are who deliver it,
they just pick it up here. I think it is sell into other places.
7. What is the form of business organization are you involved?
- Only one.
8. As the population increases in Biñan, is are there any direct effect in the demand of shoes in
Biñan?
- For me I don’t see any problems, just a normal.
9. When did the production of shoes increase and decrease?
- It is weak in the month of August but in September it will increase until January.
10. In your opinion, do you think Biñan can still be known in terms of shoe-making industry?
- Yes, there is a chance to be known.
11. Is there any difference between the shoe-making industry in Biñan then and now? If yes, what
are the difference? If none, state why does it remain the same?
- Nothing it just the same, because until today I am a shoemaker. Nothing in productivity.
12. What are the hindrances or factors that affects in producing and selling shoes?
- I don’t see any effect maybe in making the product sometimes they mistake in cutting, in
materials? Nothing. There’s no problem in the worker.

Name: Salve Hapin

Age: 58
Address:

1. How many years have you been producing shoes?

- About 20 years.
2. How did you learn making shoes?
- Through experience first I’m just watching until learning about it.
3. What type of shoes that are in demand, have you been producing?
- Slippers only, for girls, for kids and adult.
 4. Do you design your own product?
- Yes.
5. Are you using any kind of machinery when producing your products?
- Yes.
6. Do you sell your shoes here in Biñan? (Do you sell your products in other places?)
- In department store footstep, near in SM now I didn’t supply in SM. In Cinco footstep, I
don’t sell here in Biῆan but if someone want to have a custom of their shoes we sell it.
7. What is the form of business organization are you involved?
- Yes, solo.
8. As the population increases in Biñan, is are there any direct effect in the demand of shoes in
Biñan?
- Yes, because sometimes lack in workers, but sometimes it has a good effect because it has a
good income.
9. When did the production of shoes increase and decrease?
- Our week month is from April until June it will grow in “ BER” months until January to March
and if June it will weak again maybe because it is the start of the school year and they have a
priority.
10. In your opinion, do you think Biñan can still be known in terms of shoe-making industry?
- Biῆan is well known to it.
11. Is there any difference between the shoe-making industry in Biñan then and now? If yes, what
are the difference? If none, state why does it remain the same?
- Yes we have because electric machineries unliked before manual.
12. What are the hindrances or factors that affects in producing and selling shoes?
- Usually quick glue if is not too sticky or sometime they forget to put it but we can make a
solution for it.

Name: Edwin Belen

Age: 45
Address: Almeda Subd. Dela Paz Biñan

1. How many years have you been producing shoes?

- I think it’s been 20 years.
2. How did you learn making shoes?
- It is like inherited in family.
3. What type of shoes, that is in demand, have you been producing?
- Like this, Japanese, there are female and male footwear.
4. Do you design your own product?
- Yes, it is our own.
5. Are you using any kind of machinery when producing your products?
- Yes, like press the one that has a pointed edge.
6. Do you sell your shoes here in Biñan? (Do you sell your products in other places?)
 - There are some getting orders here. They sell it in Alabang, Batangas, Tanauan and here
hometown Biῆan.
7. What is the form of business organization are you involved?
- None, it was owned by one person.
8. As the population increases in Biñan, is are there any direct effect in the demand of shoes in
Biñan?
- Any effect? There are so many customer before and other entrepreneur change their
business. Why it decreases? Materials become expensive because of plastic that enter the
market.
9. When did the production of shoes increase and decrease?
- When it’s December, it has ahigh demand. When rainy season enter like June, July and
August, it starts to falls down the production.
10. In your opinion, do you think Biñan can still be known in terms of shoe-making industry?
- Maybe it is still 50/50 unlike before when you enter here all houses are production but not
much today. My uncles and aunties are also stopped their production, its look like we are
the one where left and the other were closed.
11. Is there any difference between the shoe-making industry in Biñan then and now? If yes, what
are the difference? If none, state why does it remain the same?
- Yes it has a large difference. It has a much better production in year 1990’s. Baclaran is one
who order from us sometimes other come to order. Today it is gone and change.
12. What are the hindrances or factors that affects in producing and selling shoes?
- When there is a flood, our production here also stop.The expensive materials in producing
and also those plastic products come from factory unlike us handcrafted.

Name: Roselda capadocia

Age: 50
Address: Almazora Subd.
1. How many years have you been producing shoes?
- It’s been a long time, teenager, I think 10 years.
2. How did you learn making shoes?
- Inherited from their mother and father.
3. What type of shoes, that is in demand, have you been producing?
- Only sandals that is for women footwear.
4. Do you design your own product?
- Yes, by looking in some photos until it became a sample.
5. Are you using any kind of machinery when producing your products?
- Yes ofcourse, all motors are used by males to be become smooth. Lower part of the shoes,
sandals, and rubber are all processed in motor that used electricity.
6. Do you sell your shoes here in Biñan? (Do you sell your products in other places?)
 - This is order from Baclaran sometimes in Tutuban. We don’t sell in Biñan because it’s sold
per dozen like how many dozen they will order. But there are some getting here lives from
San Pedro, Muntinlupa and lesser lives in Biñan buy because some are also shoe-makers.
7. What is the form of business organization are you involved?
- Her, but there is a manager. The manager where the products delivered.It’s only an order to
be manufactured and then needed to sign to get some materials. It’s like partnership.
8. As the population increases in Biñan, is are there any direct effect in the demand of shoes in
Biñan?
- What demand in product? While it gets larger, order also gets bigger because the quality of
the work is what needed to see. Because if there is an error on product the order become
lesser.
9. When did the production of shoes increase and decrease?
- It depends on the work. Sometimes if they are tired, they are given a one day rest to relax.
Today it should have a low productin. Months before has a low production unlike now. But
we have high production when BER months enter.
10. In your opinion, do you think Biñan can still be known in terms of shoe-making industry?
- Yes, because there are still many shoe-makers.
11. Is there any difference between the shoe-making industry in Biñan then and now? If yes, what
are the difference? If none, state why does it remain the same?
- When Chinese enter the economy, the materials needed become unavailable. But since
today there are no Chinese, we become productive. When it happened, products from China
become less available. The process of our production here is handcrafted but we also have
machinery for budlock that helps the production faster because of technology that process
products effortless.
12. What are the hindrances or factors that affects in producing and selling shoes?
- When the shoe-makers are tardy. There is no problem in terms of materials because we
have partner. In terms of producing only that causes our deliver delayed.