The summit featured exhibits, plenary sessions, and keynotes that emphasized the city’s direction in building resilient communities through innovation and multi-sectoral cooperation. Representatives from ECOP, PHILEXPORT, PCCI, and DTI delivered messages of solidarity, aligning with the summit’s goals of fostering competitiveness, job generation, and community empowerment.
Mayor WES Gatchalian addressed the delegates by outlining Valenzuela’s continuing efforts in three major points: flood resilience, peace and order, and transportation infrastructure. He highlighted the city’s infrastructure investments aimed at mitigating floods, the modernization of peace and order, and the integration of national transport projects such as the Metro Manila Subway and the North-South Commuter Railway, which are set to enhance mobility and economic activity across the city.
The city also recognized outstanding contributions from the business community through its annual awarding ceremony for the Top Job Providers and Top Taxpayers across Micro, Small, Medium, and Large enterprise categories.
These are this year's awardee:
Top Tax Payers 2025
Micro Scale Category
Toyota Valenzuela Inc.
Contract Packaging Corp. of the Philippines
Innovative Packaging Industry Corp.
Weisong Innovative Packaging Inc.
Prospercars Incorporated
Small Scale Category
Industrial Welding Corp.
Philippine Glass Processing Specialist
Mega Masterlink Fabricator and Electrical Services
Becton Land Corporation
VT Primetech Inc.
Medium Scale Category
Century Iron Works Inc.
Nation Paper Products & Printing Corp.
Flexible Packaging Products Corp.
Puregold Price Club, Inc.
DTM Print & Labels Specialist, Inc.
Large Scale Category
NLEX Corporation - Karuhatan
NLEX Corporation - Ugong
MPT Mobility Corporation
Polyfoam RGC International Corp.
JC Electrofields Power System, Inc.
TOP JOB PROVIDER 2025
In-City Direct Hire Category
ECCO Food Corporation (Stick-O)
Donutification Corporation (Dunkin)
Super Shopping Market Inc. (SM Hypermarket-Valenzuela)
Collecticons, Inc. (Filbar’s)
Outside City Direct Hire Category
Binondo Food Corporation
SPES Category
MC Donalds BHive Plaza
Nation Paper Products and Printing Corporation (NAPPCO)
Donutification Corporation (Dunkin)
Chowking Drive & Dine – NLEX
Polyglass Corporation
TOP JOB PROVIDER (Inclusivity Award)
Suncrest Food Incorporated
JBC Food Corporation
Tygie Corporation
HALL OF FAME TAX PAYER 2025
Micro Scale Category
J. Simeon Construction
Acersteel Industrial Sales, Inc.
Small Scale Category
Suncrest Foods Incorporated
We Enterprises & Contractors, Inc.
Fiberline Industries, Inc.
Medium Scale Category
Unicorn Metal Corp.
Peerless Products Manufacturing Corp.
Mayer Steel Pipe Corp.
Tiger Machinery & Industrial Corp.
Large Scale Category
Manila Electric Company
SM Prime Holdings, Inc.
Powertrac Incorporated
Maynilad Water Services, Inc.
CDO Foodsphere, Inc.
HALL OF FAME JOB PROVIDER 2025
In-City Direct Hire Category
CDO Foodsphere, Inc
Pandayan Bookshop Inc.
Sanford Marketing Corporation (SM Savemore Marulas)
Outside City Direct Hire Category
JBC Food Corporation
SPES Category
MC MAGIK Corporation (Paso De Blas)
Inno Bev Inc.
GO GREEN AWARDS 2025
Innovative Packaging Industry Corp.
San Miguel Polo Brewery
CDO Foodsphere, Inc.
City officials who joined Mayor WES Gatchalian in presenting the awards included Atty. Ulysses Gallego of the Business Permits and Licensing Office (BPLO), Ms. Janina Bautista of the Local Economic Development and Investment Promotions Office (LEDIPO), Ms. Josephine Osea of the Public Employment Services Office (PESO), and Ms. Rachel Torres of the City Environment and Natural Resources Office (CENRO).
With active participation from local and national partners, the 2025 Valenzuela International Progress Summit reaffirmed the city’s position as a model of innovation-driven, future-ready, and people-centered governance.
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