This Filipino book may just be what you need to get your company or business the marketing boost it needs People rose above the challenges of 2020 through constant self-improvement, helping each other out and dreaming of a brighter tomorrow. Despite the pandemic and the economic crisis that has...
The Siy Cha Group of Companies from Sultan Kudarat, which have been in the motorcycle retail business for over 30 years, now wants a piece of the P37 billion delivery market for online merchants and their customers. The group will launch Amigo, an on-demand delivery service platform next month, to...
The Aboitiz Group has pledged to continue supporting the Philippine government in terms of addressing hunger and malnutrition as part of its corporate social responsibility (CSR) efforts. In a statement, Aboitiz Group said it believes collaborating with the government in its effort to combat hunger...
PLDT Inc. and wireless unit, Smart Communications, Inc. (Smart) took down 3,011 sites that host illicit content featuring children, in compliance with National Telecommunications Commission (NTC) orders. The PLDT Group upholds protection from online sexual abuse and exploitation of children (OSAEC)...
Globe Fintech Innovations, Inc. (Mynt), subsidiary of Globe Telecom and operator of mobile wallet GCash, hauled in close to $1 billion investments to date from a private equity fund. ASP Philippines LP, a limited partnership fund managed by investment firm Bow Wave Capital Management, infused new...
Presuming it was named for the airport code of their favorite city, Barcelona; BCN of the Bistro Group has done it’s own share of traveling and changing neighborhoods. I recall it’s first incarnation in Legaspi Village, on the then-trendy culinary outpost of Bolanos St. Then pre-pandemic, in...
Leading global private equity firm CVC Capital Partners (CVC) is investing P6 billion to Fast Group (Fast), the Philippines leading end-to-end logistics player, to further boost Fast’s continued development and further expansion across the country. Brice Cu, CVC Capital Partners managing...
Century Properties Group Inc. is planning to raise up to P3 billion from a public offering of unsecured fixed-rate peso denominated retail bonds. In a disclosure to the Philippine Stock Exchange, the firm said its Board of Directors has approved the plan to offer P2 billion worth of retail...
Lima Land Inc. will develop over 100 hectares of its existing 700-hectare property in the next two years to accommodate more industrial locators for its Lima Estate where new locators are expected to generate 20,000 jobs in Batangas and neighboring provinces. In a statement, Lima Land of the...
Manila Water Company (MWC) reported that its consortium with French water distributor Saur Group and Saudi’s Miahona Company has inked a Management, Operations and Maintenance Contract with Saudi Arabia’s state-run water agency, National Water Company. In a disclosure to the Philippine Stock...
Japanese firm Mitsubishi Power, a subsidiary of Mitsubishi Heavy Industries (MHI) Group, has cornered the contract for the upgrade of the 458-megawatt Makiling-Banahaw geothermal power facility that is owned and operated by AP Renewables Inc. (APRI) of the Aboitiz group. Under the deal, Mitsubishi...
With the Department of Energy’s (DOE) moratorium on coal-fired power projects, there’s no doubt that the Philippine energy sector will be in for dramatic shifts and existential twists – not just in technology deployments but in the overall goal of greening the power mix. The emerging story of...
