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...
The Gokongwei Group’s Universal Robina Corporation (URC) was once again ranked high among consumers’ most chosen FMCG (fast-moving consumer goods) brands—showing that its segment-leading products are proving to be consistent favorites among Filipinos. In a statement, URC said Great Taste...
Universal Robina Corporation’s (URC) net income grew six percent to P10.9 billion for the first nine months of 2023 from P9.7 billion in the said period last year due to higher foreign exchange gains and finance costs. In a disclosure to the Philippine Stock Exchange (PSE), URC's sales this...
President Marcos has approved the creation of the Universal Health Care Coordinating Council to oversee the implementation of the Universal Health Care (UHC) Act nationwide. President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. (Photo from the Presidential Communications Office) This was announced by Department of Health...
Senator Chiz Escudero has expressed his support for the partial payment to the state universities and colleges (SUCs), since the government, while looking at ways to reimburse, cannot pay in full the demand of the SUCs due to budgetary constraints. Sen. Francis “Chiz” Escudero presides over the...
Universal Robina Corporation (URC), the food and beverage arm of the Gokongwei Group, reported that three of its businesses in the Philippines, Vietnam and Indonesia have been certified as some of Asia’s best workplaces in 2023. “We’re truly honored to be among the best workplaces in...
Words by Bill Urrutia “What an excellent day for an exorcism,” is one of the famous lines from "The Exorcist" (1973), the first film from the franchise that put exorcism in a prominent space in the horror film genre. The next few decades will also prove to be an excellent time for an exorcism,...
The Gokongwei Group’s food and beverage unit Universal Robina Corporation (URC) has been named the Philippines’ most outstanding company in the consumer staples sector for the third year in a row by Asiamoney. This was the result of the Asia’s Outstanding Poll 2023 by Asiamoney, one of...
Universal Robina Corp. (URC), the food and beverage unit of the Gokongwei Group, has been named as one of the Philippines’ best-managed companies in a survey of hundreds of investors, brokers and analysts across Southeast Asia. The company was cited for its “strongest adherence to corporate...
