Business

SM launches its 65th Anniversary by lighting up its iconic landmarks in blue including SM MOA Globe, Mega Tower, The Cube of SM Seaside, Skyranch Tagaytay, Baguio Eye, and Pampanga Eye.  Be mesmerized by the illuminating blue colors of SM Mall of Asia, SM City North Edsa, SM Aura, SM Megamall, SM Makati, SM Lanang, and SM Seaside City Cebu.

Victoria International Container Terminal (VICT), Australia’s first fully automated container terminal and one of world’s most advanced port facilities, will soon be handling the largest boxships to arrive in Australia after the recent delivery of two new ship-to-shore (STS) cranes.  “We are now ready to receive the largest vessels that will come to Australia as part of the upsizing strategy …

Manila Water continues to bring essential sanitation services to its customers in the East Zone highlighted by monthly desludging caravan which offers household septic tank siphoning at no additional cost. For the month of October, Manila Water’s desludging trucks will be present in Barangay E. Rodriguez, East Kamias, Krus Na Ligas, Pinagkaisahan, Sauyo, Silangan, Tandang Sora, UP Campus, Kalusugan, West …

The government is confident that it will raise more than USD1 billion from its second offering of Retail Onshore Dollar Bonds (RDB 2), a top official of the Bureau of the Treasury (BTr) said. “It’s been three days, but we’re seeing the demand, we’re close to the USD1 billion initially that we targeted,” BTr Officer-in-Charge Sharon Almanza said during the …

Preliminary data indicated that outstanding loans of universal and commercial banks (U/KBs), net of reverse repurchase (RRP) placements with the BSP, expanded by 7.7 percent year-on-year in July from 7.8 percent in June. On a month-on-month seasonally-adjusted basis, outstanding universal and commercial bank loans, net of RRPs, rose by 0.6 percent, similar with the previous month. Outstanding loans to residents, …

Landco Pacific Corporation, known for pioneering premium landscapes for more than three decades, forges ahead with its Adopt-a-Scholar program in partnership with Batangas State University and local public high schools.  This latest initiative is part of Landco’s long-term Corporate Social Responsibility aimed at helping underprivileged youth within the vicinity of Landco BeachTowns in Calatagan and Laiya, San Juan, Batangas. Under …

SM Foundation conducted medical missions in two municipalities of Cebu province recently: in Consolacion and San Fernando. These medical missions afforded residents of the municipalities to avail of free medical, dental and laboratory services. The SM mobile clinic was dispatched to help in the medical missions. SM City Consolacion, the second SM Supermalls in the province of Cebu was venue …

SM Foundation, the social good arm of the SM group, recently refurbished the San Fernando, Cebu’s Primary Care Facility.  The foundation’s initiative involved a comprehensive overhaul, updating the center’s layout and design and equipping it with new medical tools and equipment to help provide quality care to the community it serves.  The said developments adhere to DOH’s safety standards. Beyond …

Victoria International Container Terminal (VICT) is marking a significant milestone with the arrival of the super-sized ship, the M/V CMA CGM Pelleas, which has docked at the Port of Melbourne. At 350 meters in length, the container vessel is the largest ever to dock in Australia. The ship is nearly 43 meters wide and has a carrying capacity of just …

SM Foundation recently marked the graduation of the beneficiaries of its Kabuhayan Sa Kabuhayan on Sustainable Agriculture Program (KSK-SAP) farmers’ training in Laguna. Three batches of farmers from Brgy. Banlic, Calamba, Laguna, Brgy. San Lucas 1, San Pablo, Laguna, and Brgy. Tagapo, Sta. Rosa, Laguna has successfully completed the 14-week training in multiple facets of agriculture.  Through collaboration of SM …