Alright, so it's been quite a while since we last updated this section. We have been busy you know, collecting awards, bringing out new products, rushing here, there and everywhere.... and of course, producing probably the finest virgin coconut oil in the world. You tell me another VCO company that goes to the trouble we do, to keep the public updated.... and we've now got our blog, www.cocovida-coconutoil. blogspot.com, to keep up to date.

So here we go, most of the things of note that have happened to Cocovida during the last few months.

Perhaps the most important, is that we now have another website, in Singapore, www.cocovida.sg. Derrick, who runs the operation, is going to cover Singapore and Malaysia for us. Like us, and Nigel and Jacquie in the UK, he is a firm believer in totally natural products. He is also a bit of an internet wizard, which helps when you are setting up a web-based business. The first shipment arrived in Singapore two weeks ago, and so far, Derrick is extremely pleased with the response.

Of course, we must mention collecting the award for Best Virgin Coconut Oil Manufacturer. As promised, we took all the staff to the awards ceremony and thoroughly enjoyed ourselves. We are now the proud owners of a very fine trophy, which has pride of place in our office.

I mentioned our blog, which has been up and running for the last couple of months. It is a really good way of keeping up with all of our news...... and some other events, which will probably be of absolutely no interest to you whatsoever. www.cocovida-coconutoil. blogspot.com.

Nigel and Jacquie in the UK have been breaking all records with their sales over the last few months. Not only do we applaud their effort, we thank them very much as well. If you work as hard as they do, you have a better than average chance of being successful. Of course it helps if you have a great product to sell... http://www.cocovida.uk , they ship to virtually anywhere.

Our move to Samar, and our new plant, has been put back until later this year. We have commitments, which will keep us in Quezon City for the next few months. However, if everything works out as planned, we will be moving to a much bigger production plant very soon.

The Alexis oil for hair has been a massive success..... probably because it is a fantastic hair oil. We will be adding another product to our range very soon, but for reasons that I guess are fairly obvious, we are not going to say very much about it, until it is available for sale.... Industrial espionage in the VCO industry, can you believe it!

We now sell 6 of the finest handmade soaps in the world. The 3 new soaps being, Garden Fresh Tomato, Cool Orange and Vanilla Oatmeal. They are all made using our own VCO, and we are convinced that once you try them, you will never go back to your old soap.

We now have Halal certification. We are extremely proud to have this, as we are one of very few VCO producers to have been granted this distinction. Our thanks go to the Philippine Office on Muslim Affairs, for all their help.

Last, but by no means least, we are being filmed by The Knowledge Channel, for a program about starting your own VCO business. As soon as we know the date the program is being shown, it will be announced on our blog.