TYPES OF BUSINESS ACCORDING ACTIVITIES

Merchandising Service

Manufacturing
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• Clean Ko Place Mo Cleaning Services

• Tutorial Services
• Manila Hotel
• Cynthia’s Food Vendor
• Susan’s Roses Flower Shop
• Wash Your Problem Laundry Shop
• Bread Pit Bakery
• Cut and Face Parlor
• Fish Be With You Fish Shop
• Bruno’s Barber Shop
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Service Business

This type of business offers professional skills, advice and consultations.

Examples: barber shops and beauty parlors, repair shops, banks, accounting and law firms

Merchandising Business

This type of business buys at wholesale and later sells the products at retail. They make a profit by selling the
merchandise or product at prices that are higher than their purchase costs. This type of business is also know as
“buy and sell”.
Examples: book stores, sari-sari stores, hardware stores

Manufacturing Business

This type of business buys raw materials and uses them in making a new product, therefore combining raw
materials, labour and expenses into
a product for sale later on.
Examples are: shoe manufacturing businesses, car manufacturing plants
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Additional information:

There are businesses that may be classified under more than one type of business. A bakery, for example,
combines raw materials in making loaves of bread (manufacturing), sells hot pan de sal (merchandising), and
caters customers’ orders in small coffee table servings of ensaymada and hot coffee (service).
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Identify if it is a service, merchandising, manufacturing business or hybrid:

NO. BUSINESS TYPE

1 Provides services to customers
2 Sells goods to customers
3 Raw materials are available
4 Goods to be sold are purchased from a supplier
5 Goods to be sold are produced by the company itself
6 Supplies are used, no goods to be sold
7 Bakery
8 Barber shop
9 Cellphone store
10 Abenson appliances