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ANTI-PYRAMIDING TASK FORCE

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DTI to monitor 1st Quadrant, JC Martin for three months

By Marianne V. Go | March 19, 2005 - 12:00am

The Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) is placing First Quadrant Philippines Inc. (FQPI) and JC Martin Corp. under a three-month monitoring after the DTI failed to conclusively determine if the two multi-level...

Business

Pyramiding vs. networking

By MY VIEWPOINT | By MY VIEWPOINT By Ricardo V. Puno, Jr. | February 5, 2005 - 12:00am

The plight of First Quadrant and J.C. Martin, two of the leading multi-level marketing (MLM) networks in the country, illustrates the difficulty regulatory bodies have in distinguishing networking from pyramiding....

Opinion