PSIC 2019 · Class

Other publishing activities

Closed to foreign equity

This class covers various publishing activities, including both traditional and online formats, for a range of printed materials and information.

Includes

Publishing of catalogs
Publishing of photos, engravings, and postcards
Publishing of greeting cards
Publishing of forms and posters
Reproduction of works of art
Publishing of advertising material
Publishing of other printed matter
Online publishing of statistics or other information

Excludes

Retail sale of software 4741
Publishing of advertising newspapers 5813
Online provision of software (application hosting and application service provisioning) 6311

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58190Other publishing activities

Details

Level: Class
Section: J Information And Communication
Parent: 581

Sector statistics

Employed persons: 545.8K persons(May 2026)

Whole PSIC section J (not specific to this code). Source: PSA Labor Force Survey, May 2026.

Industry size

Establishments: 151(2022)
Employment: 6,209 persons(2022)
Revenue: ~₱14.7B(2022)

Figures are for PSIC group 581 (the nearest level PSA surveys), not this specific code. Source: PSA OpenStat, Annual Survey of Philippine Business and Industry (ASPBI), 2022. Revenue figures are approximate.

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Set up in the Philippines

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