Bicol Region · verified listings only
Eighteen categories, chosen because they are what people here actually search for, and every listing checked against the permit record held by the LGU that issued it. That makes this directory slow to fill and worth something when it does.
Storm demand · first eight
Rebuild categories, in roughly the order the searches arrive. A hardware store that is open and stocked is the single most useful listing on this site in the week after a storm.
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The first search after every typhoon and the busiest category in the region.
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Sold by the piece from yards that rarely have a website and never have a map pin.
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A separate category from hardware on purpose.
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Licensed and unlicensed both exist and the difference matters for anything touching a meter.
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Brownouts here are not hypothetical.
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After a storm the mains go out and the refilling station is the water supply.
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Cooking gas, sold through a dealer network that is invisible online.
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Includes vulcanizing, which deserves its own mention: flooded roads shred tyres and a vulcanizing shop that is open at 6am is a genuinely searched thing..
Steady demand · the other ten
Pharmacies, clinics, vets, feeds, internet, printing, remittance. Lower drama, higher total volume, and for several of these the opening hours are the most valuable thing a listing can carry.
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Steady demand every week of the year, and the one category where opening hours are the single most valuable field.
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Medical clinics, diagnostic laboratories, X-ray.
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High-intent, purely local, and almost never listed anywhere structured.
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Two things in one category because in practice they are the same shop.
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Fertiliser, seed, pesticide, feed.
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The most asked and worst answered local question in the Philippines: who actually has coverage on my street.
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Tarpaulin printing is its own economy here: every fiesta, election, birthday and store opening runs on it.
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Padala, palit, sanla.
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Neighbourhood-level and searched by barangay.
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A category nobody browses and everybody eventually searches, usually urgently and at a bad hour.
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Seven cities and 107 municipalities. City pages carry local government contacts now; business listings appear against a place as they are verified.
Getting listed
Five things. Listing is free, there is no paid position, and we check the permit before publishing.
As it appears on the mayor’s permit, not the signage.
This is what we check against. Without it there is nothing to verify.
A street address if there is one. Many businesses here are findable by barangay and landmark rather than by street number, and that is fine.
One working number beats three dead ones.
In your own words. We are not writing marketing copy for anyone.
What we will not list
A directory that says what it refuses to carry is easier to trust than one that quietly carries everything.
Predatory lending is a live problem in the region and we are not going to be a distribution channel for it. Legitimate cooperatives and rural banks are a different thing and are welcome.
Not a judgement about the business. It is that the permit is the only thing we can actually verify, so without one there is no entry to make.
There is no paid position in this directory and there will not be one. If that ever changes it gets announced on this page before it happens, not after.
We are not running a reputation system. Ratings need moderation we cannot staff, and an unmoderated one punishes small businesses with a single angry customer.
Verification means a mayor’s permit checked against the issuing LGU’s record, with the date of that check printed on the listing. An entry awaiting verification says so on its face rather than being held back silently. How we handle data.