Monday, May 01, 2006
Home-baked goods as family business
STUDENTS on school break for the summer can help their mothers earn extra by baking cakes, bread and pastries.
With P5,000, a mixer, oven and basic baking ingredients, such as flour sugar, eggs, margarine and yeast, one can set up a business at home. There is a good market in office workers and parents who buy cakes and baked products for special occasions and snacks for their children on summer sports clinics.
To come up with affordable, quality products, buy ingredients in bulk and scout around for suppliers who sell at affordable prices.
Joan Carabio-Danao, owner of Jo and Ana’s Food Products, has been in the business of selling homemade baked goodies for six years now. While working for Mom’s Radio, Joan also bakes on weekends.
She earns a net income of P15,000 to P20,000 a month. She is even planning to put up a shop with her friends.
Joan advises would-be bakers to come up with a marketable product, not something that’s commonplace.
“Have a known target market so it would be easier to sell,” she said. (UP Mass Comm Intern Arrah Camillia Quistadio)
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