Tags: Entrepreneurship, Wholesale and Retail
By KC Santos
QUEZON CITY, METRO MANILA- For Daynes Limson, selling fireworks for a living signifies not only her early exposure to business but also the Filipinos long tradition of celebrating the New Year with a bang.
A trip along Tomas Morato will make Daynes’ stall, full of colorful boxes very hard to miss. Her fireworks business in fact has been very in demand to a few establishment operators in the area well as commuters as she sells- as one customer puts it- fireworks of high quality.
More than the lucrative business that selling fireworks is, a fact she doesn’t deny, Daynes says her business has been instrumental to communal celebrations, very much evident especially during the New Year.
“I’m not saying that fireworks are indispensable but they have been very much a part of our festive ways of celebrating,” says the 25-year-old entrepreneur-cum-fireworks junkie.
Though cliché, Daynes attests that fireworks do usher good luck and shoos negative elements away.
Apart from the spectacle it brings, fireworks are meant to be visually entertaining, and so it bothers Daynes how the quality of most fireworks have diminished over the years and have been the result of countless injuries inflicting both children and adults during what was meant to be the most fun occasion of the year.
Having been in the business for four years now, Daynes says it’s important for every distributor to consider the safety of the products they sell, which is why she makes sure every piece of firework she hands over for purchasing are all ISO Certified.
Her products, which are under the Dragon Fireworks Incorporated distributorship, incidentally, are also the same fireworks used in the music-synchronized Pyromusical exhibitions held daily at the Mall of Asia.
Daynes also takes pride in Dragon Fireworks as the official fireworks provider to prestigious events and celebrations like the Philippine National Fireworks Display Competition and the 23rd Southeast Asian Games to name a few.
Daynes was quick to put that although she supports the safety campaigns being pushed by the government, she says it’s only the careless manner in which the fireworks are being used that’s the problem, not the product itself.
“Every person must prioritize first their safety. If this is the mindset then these products will be appreciated than feared,” says Daynes adding the consumers must only purchase from distributors who have permits, which she stressed is very hard to get nowadays due to stringent measures set by the government before its approval.
In her stall, which is open every 26 to 30th of the month of December, she sells very affordable fireworks like the 16 shots, Dragon’s Lucky Rings, sparklers, bangers, rockets and fountains from P5 to at least a few thousand pesos.
Daynes says that just like every other person with an eye for beauty, she feels that fireworks will, regardless of the strict regulations, remain a favorite instrument that signifies Filipino celebrations.
“Without these visual spectacles, I don’t think the New Year’s won’t be as thrilling and exciting,” says Daynes who only has one message to consumers for this year.
“Make this year a memorable one not because you or your loved ones got implicated due to carelessness but because you all shared the visual entertainment from splashes of colors brought about by fireworks.”
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