PRESS RELEASE
30 September 2025

PCC strengthens collaboration with retail sector through competition forum

The Philippine Competition Commission (PCC) convened the “Fair Business Forum: Ensuring Fair Competition for a Thriving Retail Sector” on September 24, engaging more than 80 participants from the retail industry to strengthen collaboration and promote fair competition, innovation, and compliance across the sector.

Fair Business Forum: Ensuring Fair Competition for a Thriving Retail Sector, held on September 24, 2025.

In his keynote address, PCC Commissioner Michael Peloton emphasized the importance of fair competition in shaping a dynamic and inclusive retail environment. “Fair competition encourages innovation to give customers better choices. It protects consumers by ensuring better prices, more choices, and higher quality of goods and services. In addition, it supports micro, small, and medium enterprises by ensuring that they are not hindered by larger players or unfair market practices” he said. Peloton added, “Together, we can build a market where everyone has a fair chance and where the best businesses succeed, not because of their size or power, but because of the value they bring to the Filipino people.”

PCC Commissioner Michael Peloton delivers the welcoming message and keynote address during the Fair Business Forum: Ensuring Fair Competition for a Thriving Retail Sector, held on September 24, 2025.

Retailers expressed their support through Philippine Retailers Association Director Paul Angelo Santos, who affirmed the sector’s readiness to collaborate with the PCC in promoting compliance and ethical business practices.

Philippine Retailers Association Director Paul Angelo Santos shares a message of support during the Fair Business Forum: Ensuring Fair Competition for a Thriving Retail Sector, held on September 24, 2025.

The program featured a presentation by PCC Executive Director Kenneth Tanate on the Commission’s mandate under the Philippine Competition Act (PCA), highlighting efforts to promote fair market competition, prevent anti-competitive conduct, and protect consumer welfare. PCC Communications and Knowledge Management Office Director Frederick Romero also presented the Competition Advocacy Pledge, an initiative of the PCC to engage stakeholders in promoting fair market competition.

PCC Executive Director Kenneth Tanate presents the Commission’s mandate under the Philippine Competition Act during the Fair Business Forum: Ensuring Fair Competition for a Thriving Retail Sector, held on September 24, 2025.

The forum highlighted key competition issues in the retail sector, including the challenges faced by industry players, the practical implications of the PCA, and the importance of ensuring compliance with competition law. This is part of the PCC’s mandate under the PCA to promote fair competition and prevent anti-competitive conduct.

(L–R) PCC Communications and Knowledge Management Office (CKMO) Asst. Director Arnold Roy Tenorio, PCC Executive Director Kenneth Tanate, PCC Enforcement Office Director Christian Loren De Los Santos, Philippine Chamber of Commerce and Industry Secretary General Ruben Pascual, PCC CKMO-Capacity Building and Advocacy Division Chief Inah Geneve Mangilin, Philippine Retailers Association Director Paul Angelo Santos, and CKMO Director Frederick Romero

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REFERENCE:  
publicaffairs@phcc.gov.ph  
Public Affairs and Research Division
Communications and Knowledge Management Office
Philippine Competition Commission