Business

Listed Premiere Horizon Alliance Corp. (PHA) has completed a 15-percent equity placement with strategic investors in West Palawan Premiere (WPP) development worth P800 million covering its current Palawan landholdings hiking PHA’s stake in WPP to 85 percent. WPP is the mountain and beach side lifestyle community development of PHA in Puerto Princesa City covering 576 hectares. “The full implementation of …

By Riza Lozada The state-owned Land Bank of the Philippines (LandBank) will set up by September next year a bank partly owned by overseas Filipino workers (OFWs) and with an authorized capital of P3 billion.

The Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas (BSP) will tap solar power for its offices to boost the government’s goal to increase the use of renewable energy.

Bank of the Philippine Islands (BPI) recently made the Personal Equity and Retirement Account (PERA) available to a limited number of existing BPI clients.

Higher revenues and reduced expenses boosted the Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas’ (BSP) net income to P15.26 billion in 2016 as of last October.

Economic managers have revised the government’s foreign exchange target for 2017-18 in response to the prevailing weakness of the peso as a result of overseas developments.

By Riza Lozada BDO Unibank Inc. (BDO) seeks to raise up to P60 billion in additional core capital through a stock rights offer to finance the bank’s medium-term growth plans and provide a buffer on higher capital requirements imposed by the Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas (BSP).

Pizza chain Shakey’s Pizza Asia Ventures Inc. (Spavi), which is seeking to raise P3.96 billion through an initial public offer (IPO), targets to put up 20 new stores next year, as it embarks on an ambitious expansion plan.

Pilipinas Shell Petroleum Corp (PSPC) will pursue its $13-mil­lion (P624-million) upgrade of the Tabangao Refinery to pro­duce bitumen.

Last Dec. 15, Jollibee opened its first store in Winnipeg, Canada, home to over 70,000 Filipinos. The pioneer location was chosen as Winnipeg is home for several Filipinos with Ta­galog being the second-most common language spoken. In typical Jollibee fashion, the store was welcomed by long queues with people lining up as early as 10:30 PM the night before the …