Universal Robina Corporation (URC), the food and beverage unit of the Gokongwei Group, reported a 21 percent growth in net income to P4.4 billion in the first quarter of 2024 versus the same period last year due to higher operating income coupled with higher forex gains. In a disclosure to...
Universal Robina Corporation (URC), the Gokongwei Group’s food and beverage manufacturer, reported a 12 percent decline in net income to P12.8 billion last year due to higher earnings from gain on land sale in 2022 while core profit actually increased. In a disclosure to the Philippine...
The Gokongwei Group’s food and beverage arm Universal Robina Corporation (URC) is putting up a new production plant in Malvar, Batangas that will produce many of the new products the firm will introduce in the coming years. “This mega plant will feature state-of-the-art manufacturing technology...
Finance Secretary Ralph G. Recto wants to keep the government's free college education program unchanged, dismissing any proposals to set some qualification requirements. Recto, the chief architect of the Universal Access to Quality Tertiary Education (UAQTE) Act, said that the national government...
AnaKalusugan Party-list Rep. Ray Reyes (AnaKalusugan Party-list Facebook) AnaKalusugan Party-list Rep. Ray Reyes underscored the need for a streamlined validating process from the Philippine Health Insurance Corp. (PhilHealth) to make healthcare more...
Universal Robina Corporation’s (URC) Malaysian subsidiary has bagged two international awards as an excellent workplace and as a top global brand. In a statement, the firm said Universal Robina Munchy’s (URM) was named as one of HR Asia’s Best Companies to Work for in Asia (Malaysia chapter)....
Gokongwei Group's Universal Robina Corporation (URC) continues to expand SONEDCO, its sugar mill in Kabankalan, Negros Occidental, even as it has evolved to become an integral part of the town’s legacy and the core of the local economy. For over 35 years, SONEDCO has grown from being just a...
(Ellson Quismorio/ MANILA BULLETIN) AnaKalusugan Party-list Rep. Ray Reyes has proposed that the revenue from additional taxes on junk food and sweetened beverages next year be used to increase the funding for the Universal Health Care (UHC) program. ...
Okada Manila is expecting 2024 to be a better year for the integrated resort and casino on expectation that tourism will be normalized after the Covid crisis is almost over. In an interview, Okada Manila Chief Managing Officer Kenji Sugiyama said, “we still see more opportunity after Covid and...
Davao tycoon Dennis A. Uy has found a new partner in Japanese gaming firm Universal Entertainment Corporation (UEC), which has agreed to complete the partially-developed Emerald Bay Resort in Cebu. UEC will be developing the casino resort complex through Philippine subsidiary Tiger Resort Leisure...
By YVETTE TAN In Avengers: Infinity War, Thanos wanted assemble the Infinity Gauntlet so he could eradicate half of all life in the universe because he claimed that genocide is what is needed to restore balance and to keep resources from being depleted by overpopulation. This was not his reason for...
Merbau Corporation, the renewable energy (RE) business unit of the Gokongwei-led JG Summit Holdings, Inc., has viably advanced to commercial operation its 13.811-megawatt peak (MWp) solar installation in Batangas City, a project touted as the biggest in the solar rooftop genre that has been...
