CREIT President and CEO Oliver Y. Tan Citicore Energy REIT Corporation (CREIT) declared dividends amounting to ₱360 million for the fourth quarter of 2024, bringing its total dividends last year to ₱1.32 billion. In a disclosure to the Philippine Stock Exchange, the firm said its latest...
Andrew Tan-led township developer Megaworld Corp. is investing ₱30 billion over the next five years to further ramp up its office portfolio by building new office buildings. In a disclosure to the Philippine Stock Exchange, the firm said part of the five-year budget will also be used to...
AVANT GARDENER “If you plant, you can eat.” So goes the often repeated line from the multi-award-winning Tigkiwili, one of the eight full-length films in the Puregold CinePanalo Festival, which runs until March 25 at Gateway Cineplex 18. The film garnered seven awards, including...
AVANT GARDENER If there are two things many Filipino children lack these days, it’s a love for reading and an appreciation for farming. Joel Donato Ching Jacob, HIV counselor and author of the Scholastic Asian Book Award winning novel Wing of the Locust and its sequels Orphan Price and...
SM Supermalls, the mall operations unit of SM Prime Holdings Inc., reported a six percent growth in average daily foot traffic to an all-time high of 5.2 million last year from 4.9 million in 2023. In a disclosure to the Philippine Stock Exchange, the firm said this record performance was due to...
AVANT GARDENER Department of Agriculture Secretary Francisco Tiu-Laurel Jr., through the efforts of the Agribusiness and Countryside Development Foundation (ABCDF), recently met with some members of the youth to discuss the state of Philippine agriculture. ABCDF is a non-profit...
LT Group Inc., the holding company of taipan Lucio Tan, reported a 14 percent improvement in attributable net income to a record high of ₱28.92 billion last year from the ₱25.42 billion reported in 2023 on the back of strong growth in its tobacco, banking, liquor, and beer businesses. In its...
Double Dragon Corporation has appointed Rodolfo Ma. Ponferrada as its new president, replacing founder Edgar J. Sia II’s brother Ferdinand J. Sia, effective March 1, 2025. In a disclosure to the Philippine Stock Exchange, the firm said its Board of Directors has also approved the promotion of...
MREIT, Inc., the real estate investment trust of township developer Megaworld Corporation, reported a 12 percent improvement in distributable income to P3.2 billion for full-year 2024. In a disclosure to the Philippine Stock Exhcange, the firm said this growth was primarily driven by the...
AVANT GARDENER The Philippine cacao industry has been growing but still remains underdeveloped. Some local chocolatiers are trying to change this by offering tree to bar artisanal chocolates. One of them is Anitu Food Forest, a Bukidnon-based chocolate brand who sources its cacao beans from...
By Jemimah Mapa Dr. Tan delivering his acceptance speech at the 2025 Manila Bulletin Newsmakers of the Year Awards With the rising levels of different plastic waste, air, and water contamination, as well as various human activities, environmental pollution has been a growing concern. This...
AVANT GARDENER Last week, I wrote about Anitu Forest Food Processing, a small chocolate brand from New Kidapawan City, Bukidnon. Now, I’m writing about the Anitu Forest Farm, the syntropic farm that produces the cacao that goes into the handcrafted chocolates. Anitu Forest Farm is run by...
