Pangilinan-led Metro Pacific Investments Corp. (MPIC), the Philippines’ leading infrastructure investments company, has appointed former Philippine Airlines President Gilbert Gabriel F. Santa Maria as the new President and CEO of Metro Pacific Tollways Corp. (MPTC), effective Sept. 1, 2025. Santa...
Andrew Tan’s Travellers International Hotel Group Inc. is taking majority control over the development of the Westside Integrated Resort, as its foreign-controlled partner Suntrust Resort Holdings Inc. has agreed to reduce its stake in the project to 20 percent due to financial challenges. In a...
The Manila-based Asian Development Bank (ADB) has officially designated Andrew Jeffries as its new country director for the Philippines effective Monday, Aug. 18, 2025. Jeffries will lead the ADB’s operations in its host country, which currently holds an active portfolio valued at approximately...
Alliance Global Group Inc. (AGI), the conglomerate led by tycoon Dr. Andrew L. Tan, reported a 39-percent jump in net income to ₱19.2 billion in the first half of the year, driven largely by the increasing contribution from its real estate business and tourism-related segments, on the back of...
Top township developer Megaworld Corp. has tapped Accor Group to share its expertise and operate select homegrown hotel brands under its hospitality arm Megaworld Hotels & Resorts. Andrew Tan-led Megaworld is the country’s largest developer and operator of homegrown Filipino hotel brands, while...
Tycoon Andrew Tan has resumed buying shares of Emperador Inc. from the stock market, this time spending ₱160 million for 10 million common shares. In a disclosure to the Philippine Stock Exchange (PSE), Emperador said Tan’s privately held The Andresons Group Inc. bought the 10 million shares...
Alliance Global Group Inc. (AGI), the investment holding company of tycoon Andrew Tan, is expanding its leisure and hospitality businesses under During the firm’s annual stockholders’ meeting, AGI Chairman Tan said that, “leveraging AGI 's unrivaled land bank, we are building even more...
Businessman Andrew Tan, through his private real estate investment company Emperador Properties, has acquired a 14-hectare mixed-use urban complex Caleido located within the Cinco Torres Business District in Madrid, Spain. Caleido was conceived with a clear objective-to create an attractive,...
While its whisky business currently faces challenges resulting in lower sales and earnings, global liquor conglomerate Emperador Inc. continues to expand its facilities as it is optimistic of a turnaround and looks forward to a growing market over the medium to long term. “We are seeing a...
The advertising industry will be the clear winner when more casino operators try to jump on the online gaming bandwagon since these new players will have to spend billions of pesos monthly just to get a foot into the market and take some market share away from the first movers. Unicapital...
Tycoon Dr. Andrew Tan has so far invested ₱1.33 billion as he continues to mop up shares of Emperador Inc., which faces removal from the Philippine Stock Exchange’s benchmark index if the public float falls below 20 percent. Emperador disclosed to the Philippine Stock Exchange that Tan’s...
Tycoon Dr. Andrew Tan has bought another ₱333-million worth of shares of Emperador Inc. from the market, bringing his two-day purchase total to ₱666 million. The move aims to reduce the company’s public float and bring it closer to the 20-percent minimum public ownership requirement. In a...
