{"id":1276,"date":"2016-07-28T17:34:19","date_gmt":"2016-07-28T09:34:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/primer.com.ph\/business\/?p=1276"},"modified":"2022-09-28T22:41:10","modified_gmt":"2022-09-28T14:41:10","slug":"how-to-earn-millions-with-only-p20-the-ice-candy-factory-success-story","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/business\/how-to-earn-millions-with-only-p20-the-ice-candy-factory-success-story\/","title":{"rendered":"How to earn millions with only \u20b120: The Ice Candy Factory Success Story"},"content":{"rendered":"

Have you ever asked yourself: what can I do with P20? Well, apart from what this commercial<\/a> and others like it have shown you, there is another way: build an ice candy empire.<\/span><\/p>\n

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A PRESSING QUESTION. For a couple who lives in Rizal, their answer was simple yet largely unexpected: build an ice candy empire. (Photos grabbed from <\/em>AD Subliminal<\/em><\/a> and <\/em>Ice Candy Factory – Bianca’s Special Facebook page<\/em><\/a>)<\/em><\/p>\n

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Rosiell and Rodolfo De Leon certainly were not expecting that the lone P20 bill they had would lead them to having a booming business empire. Here\u2019s the story of how the De Leons started Bianca\u2019s Ice Candy <\/strong>in 2011.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Humble beginnings<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

The De Leons hit rock bottom when Rodolfo lost his well-paying job. They managed to save up some money, but it was not enough to pay the bills and send their children, Bianca and Nica, to school. Times were so hard for the family that they had to resort to using charcoal to cook their meals instead of on a gas stove.<\/span><\/p>\n

With only P20 left in her wallet and they were the only ones in their local neighborhood in Rizal that had a refrigerator, she bought ice bags and sold ice at P3 per piece, earning P300 in the process. She then bought ingredients to make ice candy which they sold to their neighbors at P5 per piece.<\/span><\/p>\n

Their ice candy eventually gained steam and became a hit with their neighbors. They then tapped the local street vendor who hawked fish, sari-sari <\/em>stores (neighborhood variety store), carinderias <\/em>(small canteens), bakeries, and even the cigarette vendors to sell their ice candies by letting them keep P1 for every ice candy they sell.<\/span><\/p>\n

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The decision<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Rosiell and Rodolfo have their daughter to thank for their business being as big as it is today. Their daughter, Nica, attends one of the local public schools in Rizal. She asked her parents to bring their ice candies to their school because they did not have snacks she liked. After a talk with the principal, they were able to get their daughter\u2019s school as their first client.<\/span><\/p>\n

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THE START OF AN EMPIRE. Bianca\u2019s Ice Candy became such a hit with their daughter\u2019s public school that it soon became a sensation.<\/em><\/p>\n

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From there, their list of clients grew. In two years, they\u2019ve grown from one school to 13. Another two years would pass and they would get 40 more schools. As of July 2016, they\u2019re already serving 136 schools in Antipolo, Pasig City, and other schools in Quezon City and the province of Rizal.<\/span><\/p>\n

When Entrpreneur.com.ph<\/a> asked them why they were so successful with public schools, Rosiell said she and her husband were both from the public school system. Besides making delicious and affordable ice candies, their product works well with the tray system used in public schools.<\/span><\/p>\n

Under this system, a tray of snacks is brought to each class. It\u2019s both efficient and helps avoid accidents during a recess rush. Armed with this knowledge, Rosiell and Rodolfo gained a steady following from public schools. The schools also get to keep a portion of the profit from their sales.<\/span><\/p>\n

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24 FLAVORS AT P3 each. It\u2019s something that cannot be achieved overnight. From their daughter\u2019s favorite fruit salad, they now have 24 flavors, still sold at P3 each.<\/em><\/p>\n

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Today, they now have two factories in Antipolo that churn out a combined total of 60,000 ice candies a day in 24 flavors. They\u2019ve also gone from having Rodolfo himself deliver their ice candies by tricycle to three frozen trucks. They\u2019ll be opening a new factory in Antipolo come August, hoping to bump their production to 500,000 and giving jobs to at least 50 people between their three facilities.<\/span><\/p>\n

They\u2019re also a part of PLDT Inc.\u2019s business solutions provider PLDT Smart SME Nation as one of its ambassadors.<\/span><\/p>\n

So allow us to ask you again: what can you do with P20?<\/span><\/p>\n

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Source:<\/em> Entrepreneur Philippines – Multi-million ice candy business revisited<\/em><\/a>, <\/em>Entrepreneur Philippines – From P20 to Millions<\/em><\/a>, <\/em>GMA News Online<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

All photos courtesy of <\/em>Ice Candy Factory – Bianca’s Special<\/em><\/a> unless otherwise indicated<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Have you ever asked yourself: what can I do with P20? Well, apart from what this commercial and others like it have shown you, there is another way: build an ice candy empire. \u00a0 A PRESSING QUESTION. For a couple who lives in Rizal, their answer was simple yet largely unexpected: build an ice candy […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":1282,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[271],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1276","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-success-story"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/business\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1276","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/business\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/business\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/business\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/business\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1276"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/business\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1276\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7013,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/business\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1276\/revisions\/7013"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/business\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1282"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/business\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1276"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/business\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1276"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/business\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1276"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}