The Senate will work on passing soon the bills aimed at reviving the Philippine economy, such as the proposed amendments to the Public Service Act and to the Foreign Investment Act, among others. (Senate of the Philippines) Senate Majority Leader Juan Miguel Zubiri said senators agreed on this...
Six Philippine companies, led by the Sy family’s SM Investments Corporation and BDO Unibank, made it to Forbes Magazine’s 19th annual Global 2000 list. The list is an international ranking of the world's biggest, most-powerful and most-valuable companies based on an analysis of four metrics:...
Norwegian companies that are interested to inject fresh capital into the country’s renewable energy (RE) sector have been batting for the easing of legal restraints on foreign ownership, primarily on solar and wind installations. In a virtual launch of the Report on RE Opportunities in the...
SM Investments Corporation (SMIC), the flagship of the Sy family, reported a five percent improvement in consolidated net income to P9.5 billion in first quarter of 2021 from the P9.0 billion earned in the same period last year. In a disclosure to the Philippine Stock Exchange, the firm said...
Metro Pacific Investments Corporation reported a 272 percent surge in attributable consolidated net income to P7.0 billion in the first quarter of 2021 although core profits declined. In a media briefing, MPIC President Jose Ma. K. Lim said the firm’s bottomline benefitted from the gain...
SM Investments Corporation, a giant conglomerate whose businesses cater mostly to consumers, is focusing on the country’s recover from the pandemic by supporting moves to get people vaccinated against COVID-19. During the firm’s annual stockholders’ meeting, SMIC President and CEO...
Despite the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic, the Philippines still has the potential to become an economic powerhouse especially if it is able to take full advantage of its resources and make a mark in the global marketplace, Senator Sonny Angara said on Wednesday. Angara made the projection in his...
China is committed to expand investment ties with the Philippines following a surge in bilateral trade in the first quarter of the year. Chinese Ambassador to the Philippines with President Duterte (File photo: Chinese embassy/Manila Bulletin) Chinese Ambassador to the Philippines Huang Xilian said...
SM Investments Corporation (SMIC) has joined a business group of dedicated global sustainability champions through the 50 Sustainability & Climate Leaders campaign with a focus on responding to climate change. This makes SMIC the only Filipino company to join the campaign among countries like...
Last January, SM Investments Corporation was one of 380 companies across 11 sectors included in the 2021 Bloomberg Gender-Equality Index (GEI). This was the second time SM was cited in the said index, which measures gender equality across five pillars: female leadership and talent pipeline, equal...
Metro Pacific Hospitals Holdings Inc. reported that it has vaccinated more than 13,000 healthcare workers in its 18 hospitals since the arrival of the first batches of the Sinovac and AstraZeneca vaccines in the Philippines in early March. The network’s three largest hospitals in terms of...
SM Investments Corporation (SMIC) is acquiring the 31.73 percentstake of Chelsea Logistics and Infrastructure Holdings Corporation in 2GO Group Inc., for about P6.64 billion, to gain control of the shipping and logistics firm. In a disclosure to the Philippine Stock Exchange, SMIC said...
