MUMshroom’s products, among them, mushroom chips, gourmet bottles in savory variants, chili garlic mushroom paste, pickled mushroom, fritters/ kropek. The Covid-19 pandemic was a traumatic global event, bringing the whole world to a halt as a virus threatened humanity. But despite the many...
AVANT GARDENER I visited Bukid Amara in Lucban, Quezon, a popular vegetable and flower farm among tourists and farmers. The 2.5-hectare farm is a sight to behold. The first thing that catches the eye is a field of different types of flowers that stretch out from the farm entrance toward a...
Petunias are beautiful flowers that are easy to care for. Diego Roxas, the current Spokesperson for the Bureau of Plant Industry (BPI), spent the pandemic growing and selling petunias, and continues to do so on the side. READ: Putting passion into motion: How a young man’s childhood...
Tycoon Andrew Tan-led Alliance Global Group Inc. (AGI) surpassed its pre-pandemic performance with net income rising 19 percent to P14.2 billion in the first six months of 2023 from its year ago level of P12 billion. In a disclosure to the Philippine Stock Exchange, the firm said this was achieved...
“Nobody knew who I was before McDonald’s." Thus, recounted George T. Yang who pioneered the fastfood chain business in the Philippines which catapulted him to fame and fortune. McDonald's Philippines Master Franchisee George T. Yang Now one of the country’s best-known tycoons, he fondly...
Lucio Tan’s aviation services unit MacroAsia Corporation reported that its consolidated net income soared 667 percent to P382.2 million for the first half of 2023 from the P49.8 million earned the same period in 2022 on the back of revenge travel. In a disclosure to the Philippine Stock Exchange,...
Taipan Lucio Tan’s investment arm LT Group Inc. reported a 16 percent drop in attributable net income for the first half of 2023 to P13 billion from the P15.40 billion earned in the same period last year. In a disclosure to the Philippine Stock Exchange, the firm said its tobacco business...
AVANT GARDENER Grace Pascual-Holganza, a corporate accountant by trade, is the owner of Mumshroom, a company that sells products such as chips, patties, and sisig made from white oyster mushrooms cultivated on her family farm in Nueva Ecija. Though she technically started Mumshroom in 2018, just...
Real estate and spirits magnate Andrew Tan’s Megaworld Corporation reported a 31 percent growth in net income to P8.8 billion in the first half of 2023 from P6.7 billion in the same period last year. In a disclosure to the Philippine Stock Exchange, the firm said higher profits were seen as the...
Jollibee Foods Corporation (JFC), the giant Asian food service company controlled by tycoon Tony Tan Caktiong and his siblings, reported a 13.9 percent dip in attributable net income to P4.4 billion in the first half of 2023 from the P5.1 billion earned in the same period last year. Jollibee...
There’s a quote attributed to Mark Twain that says, “Find a job you like doing and you will never have to work a day in your life.” In Jose Diego Roxas’ case, it was more about finding work within his passion, which is agriculture, and learning to pivot when it best suited him. At 26...
Property and spirits magnate Andrew Tan’s real esate investment trust MREIT, Inc. improved its distributable income by 12 percent to P1.4 billion during the first half of 2023. In a disclosure to the Philippine Stock Exchange, the Megaworld-sponsored REIT said its revenues grew by 15 percent to...
