C-One Trading Corporation started out differently from the business that it is today. It started out as a lumber production company formed in 1988 in Cagayan de Oro City, Misamis Oriental, Philippines. It was named PLYTRACO, a name that continues to be recognized by the older residents of Cagayan de Oro City. Traces of the company’s existence can even be spotted all over the city to this day.
The company mainly exported its products to clients in Japan. It was during these transactions—and the frequent visits to the neighboring Asian country that they entailed—that the owner of PLYTRACO, Mr. Jose Cañete, got introduced to the trucking and reassembling/reconditioning business. After learning all there is about the industry and after realizing that there is a very good potential for such a business to be lucrative in the Philippines, he decided to give it a chance. Hence, C-One Trading Corporation was born.
It wasn’t a swift transition from lumber production and export to the trucking business that it is today. PLYTRACO remained to be the main order of business while the importation of surplus trucks and heavy equipment—and the subsequent assembling and reconditioning of the vehicles and machinery—were merely secondary. In a short time though, the latter branch of the business expanded significantly and eventually PLYTRACO’s operations were stopped.
It was on March 8, 1992 that the company was officially named as C-One Trading Corporation and permanently shifted its products and services to reconditioned trucks and heavy equipment and assembling and light manufacturing, respectively. The first location of the operations was in Sasa, Davao City.
The company grew bigger in the succeeding years. The market demand increased as Cagayan de Oro and its neighboring cities and progressed in terms of economy, infrastructure and public works. C-One eventually expanded its business to two other locations.
It was in 2002 when the main office and rebuilding yard in Kauswagan, Cagayan de Oro was opened. This branch became the go-to dealer of surplus trucks and heavy equipment in Misamis Oriental, Bukidnon, and other neighboring cities and provinces.
In 2005 C-One opened a second branch (office and rebuilding yard) in Davao City at Dumoy, Talomo District. Unlike in the other two locations, the main products being reconditioned and sold at the Dumoy branch are agricultural or farming equipment.
The Name
Anyone can easily assume that the name C-One was derived from the owner’s family name: Cañete. That’s just one part of the story though. Years ago, when cellular phones were as big and bulky as a forearm, and transmission radios were the more preferred means of communication over short distances, the call sign of Mr. Jose Cañete had been “C One.” Hence, when employees, colleagues and business associates were to contact Mr. Cañete for his company’s services, they were said to be calling for “C-One.”
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The company mainly exported its products to clients in Japan. It was during these transactions—and the frequent visits to the neighboring Asian country that they entailed—that the owner of PLYTRACO, Mr. Jose Cañete, got introduced to the trucking and reassembling/reconditioning business. After learning all there is about the industry and after realizing that there is a very good potential for such a business to be lucrative in the Philippines, he decided to give it a chance. Hence, C-One Trading Corporation was born.
It wasn’t a swift transition from lumber production and export to the trucking business that it is today. PLYTRACO remained to be the main order of business while the importation of surplus trucks and heavy equipment—and the subsequent assembling and reconditioning of the vehicles and machinery—were merely secondary. In a short time though, the latter branch of the business expanded significantly and eventually PLYTRACO’s operations were stopped.
It was on March 8, 1992 that the company was officially named as C-One Trading Corporation and permanently shifted its products and services to reconditioned trucks and heavy equipment and assembling and light manufacturing, respectively. The first location of the operations was in Sasa, Davao City.
The company grew bigger in the succeeding years. The market demand increased as Cagayan de Oro and its neighboring cities and progressed in terms of economy, infrastructure and public works. C-One eventually expanded its business to two other locations.
It was in 2002 when the main office and rebuilding yard in Kauswagan, Cagayan de Oro was opened. This branch became the go-to dealer of surplus trucks and heavy equipment in Misamis Oriental, Bukidnon, and other neighboring cities and provinces.
In 2005 C-One opened a second branch (office and rebuilding yard) in Davao City at Dumoy, Talomo District. Unlike in the other two locations, the main products being reconditioned and sold at the Dumoy branch are agricultural or farming equipment.
The Name
Anyone can easily assume that the name C-One was derived from the owner’s family name: Cañete. That’s just one part of the story though. Years ago, when cellular phones were as big and bulky as a forearm, and transmission radios were the more preferred means of communication over short distances, the call sign of Mr. Jose Cañete had been “C One.” Hence, when employees, colleagues and business associates were to contact Mr. Cañete for his company’s services, they were said to be calling for “C-One.”
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