Billionaire Andrew Tan’s investment arm Alliance Global Group Inc. (AGI) registered an 18 percent net income growth to P20.1 billion during the first nine months of 2023 from the P17.1 billion earned during the same period last year. In a disclosure to the Philippine Stock Exchange (PSE),...
Taipan Lucio Tan’s investment holding company LT Group Inc. (LTG) reported a six percent dip in attributable net income to P19.25 billion for the first nine months of 2023 from the P20.41 billion earned in the same period last year due to a drop in profits from its tobacco business. In a...
AVANT GARDENER In Avengers: Infinity War, Thanos wanted to 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...
Newport World Resorts (NWR) is poised to elevate Manila’s culinary scene with the arrival of Gordon Ramsay Bar and Grill, marking the acclaimed chef’s debut in the country. “The opening of Gordon Ramsay Bar and Grill within the property by the second quarter of 2024 is part of NWR’s epic...
Billionaire Andrew Tan’s township developer Megaworld Corporation reported a 39 percent growth in net income to P13.5 billion in the first nine months of 2023 as it posted double-digit growth across all core business segments. In a disclosure to the Philippine Stock Exchange (PSE), the firm said...
Billionaire Andrew Tan’s leisure development business Global-Estate Resorts Inc. (GERI) reported that its net income was up slightly to P1.5 billion in the first nine months of 2023 from the P1.45 billion earned in the same period last year. In a disclosure to the Philippine Stock Exchange (PSE),...
The Ayala Group’s manufacturing arm Integrated Micro-Electronics Inc. (IMI) reported a net loss of $1.6 million in the first nine months of 2023 from $0.81 million in the same period last year. In a disclosure to the Philippine Stock Exchange (PSE), the firm said revenues were lower and the...
MREIT Inc., the real estate investment trust of Megaworld Corporation, posted a distributable income growth of 13 percent to P2.1 billion during the first nine months of 2023 from the P1.9 billion recorded in the same period last year. In a disclosure to the Philippine Stock Exchange (PSE),...
AVANT GARDENER Arnold Abear, 43, from Bagong Silang, Maramag, Bukidnon is a farmer who has found success in planting coffee. The former rubber farmer switched crops in 2008, after rubber prices dropped during the financial crisis that same year. He was originally from the municipality of...
AVANT GARDENER Rice is life, and this has never been more true than for Filipinos. Around 80 percent of the Philippine population spend a fourth of their income on this grain, amounting to about 33,000 tons per day, nationwide. According to the International Rice Research Institute (IRRI), the...
Jollibee Foods Corporation announced that it has signed a contract with Ayala Malls that will lead to the opening of the country’s first Common Man Coffee Roasters, one of Singapore’s most beloved cafés, in the heart of Makati. In a statement, the Jollibee Group said the brand’s first...
AVANT GARDENER The agriculture and fisheries sector continues to decline. Last year it accounted for only 2.9 percent of the nation’s GDP, the lowest in five years. This, despite increasing and insistent calls to strengthen the industry amid continuously rising food prices. Despite alarms raised...
