ACEN Corporation of the Ayala group and multilateral lending firm Asian Development Bank (ADB) have solidified their partnership in the “green power revolution” sphere, as the latter has switched on its renewable energy (RE) supply sourcing to the Ayala firm. The bank will procure 100 percent...
SM Advantage Card (SMAC), the country’s biggest retail rewards system, doubled its loyalty base from five million in 2020 to reaching over 10 million members to date as it continues to reach more customers. In a statement, SM Investments Corporation said it has been reinforcing its...
Two Gokongwei Group conglomerates landed in the inaugural Fortune Southeast Asia 500 ranking for 2024, a first-time list of the largest companies in the region ranked by revenue for the 2023 fiscal year. JG Summit Holdings, Inc. (JG Summit) ranked 55th among the 500 largest companies in...
With RES, businesses can achieve significant savings on electricity costs, enhancing overall financial performance. Newsrooms typically race against time to break the latest stories and deliver attention-grabbing headlines to the public with seamless connectivity – hence, access to reliable and...
SM Markets, the retail grocery arm of the SM Group’s SM Retail, is planning to open 10 to 15 new stores outside Metro Manila this year to provide for the essential needs of Filipino communities in underserved areas in the provinces. “Service is at the heart of everything we do. As we grow, we...
A subsidiary of Razon-led Prime Infrastructure Capital Inc. is joining the league of players that are out to dismantle the incumbency and dominance of franchised power utilities, as it also secured a license to offer supply and service as a retail electricity supplier (RES) in the restructured...
Metro Retail Stores Group Inc. (MRSGI) of Cebu’s Gaisano family registered a 16 percent decline in net income to P50.3 million in the first quarter of 2024 from P60 million of the same period a year ago. In a disclosure to the Philippine Stock Exchange (PSE), the firm attributed the lower...
Reinforced by the company’s strategies anchored on cost management strategies and injecting efficiency across its supply chain, the first quarter financial performance of Shell Pilipinas Corporation this year leaped to P1.4 billion from P800 million within the comparative three-month stretch in...
Anchoring it on a ‘refreshed strategy’, listed firm Shell Pilipinas Corporation will be tightening its belt with leaner capital expenditures (capex) rollout of just P2.0 billion to P3.0 billion this year, roughly half from last year’s P5.0 to P6.0 billion of programmed capital spending....
Robinsons Retail Holdings Inc. (RRHI), a member of the Gokongwei Group, is seeking to accelerate its expansion outside of Metro Manila—mainly through its supermarket and drugstore businesses. RRHI President and CEO Robina Gokongwei-Pe During the firm’s annual stockholders’ meeting, RRHI...
Metro Retail Stores Group, Inc. (MRSGI) of Cebu’s Gaisano family reported a 32.6 percent drop in net income to P618 million last year from the P917.3 million earned in 2022. In a disclosure to the Philippine Stock Exchange, the firm said that, in terms of core net income which excludes one-time...
Robinsons Retail Holdings, Inc. (RRHI), a member of the Gokongwei Group, reported an 8.5 percent growth in core net earnings to P1.2 billion in the first quarter of 2024 versus the same period last year. In a disclosure to the Philippine Stock Exchange, the firm said core net earnings exclude...
