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                    [Summary] => Metro Pacific Corp., the local flagship of the Hongkong-based First Pacific Co. Ltd., is scouting for joint venture partners for the development of a 300-hectare property in San Juan, Batangas.


In a briefing with reporters yesterday, newly-appointed MPC president Jose Ma. Lim said the company is looking for prospective partners to help develop the property into a residential resort project.  MPC acquired the property in the 1990s.


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Metro Pacific may undergo major corporate restructuring

May 27, 2004 - 12:00am

HONG KONG – A major corporate restructuring to enhance the value of Metro Pacific Corp. (MPC) is being considered. Such restructuring which may include spinning off and listing money-making subsidiary Landco...

Business

FilBarcelo assumes mgm’t of Club Punta Fuego

July 12, 2003 - 12:00am

Landco Pacific Corp. and Roxaco Land Corp., developers of Peninsula de Punta Fuego and Terrazas de Punta Fuego, the exclusive beach residential communities in Nasugbu, Batangas, recently appointed FilBarcelo Hotels...

Real Estate

MPC eyes joint venture partners for Batangas project

By Zinnia B. Dela Peña | July 3, 2003 - 12:00am

Metro Pacific Corp., the local flagship of the Hongkong-based First Pacific Co. Ltd., is scouting for joint venture partners for the development of a 300-hectare property in San Juan, Batangas. In a briefing with...

Business

Landco Pacific invests in Fil-Barcelo

By Zinnia B. Dela Peña | June 7, 2003 - 12:00am

Upscale real estate develor Landco Pacific Corp. has invested in Fil-Barcelo Hotels and Properties Management Co., the Philippine licensee of the Spain-based hotel management company Barcelo Hotels and Resorts, in...

Business

Rendezvous

By Maurice Arcache | February 9, 2003 - 12:00am

Here’s one more happening from last Christmas season, dahlings: the Sayaw Foundation led by its civic-oriented officers Mita Rufino, Helen Ong, Yaying Dragon, Zeny Cabral, Sol Tan-Gatue, Nini Layug and Tess...

Starweek Magazine

Selling the unpolished diamond

By Margaret Jao-Grey  | September 16, 2002 - 12:00am

"The Philippines is a diamond that is not polished on all sides. Unfortunately, it is the unpolished side that most foreigners see," said Barcelo Hotels and Resorts chief executive officer for Asia-Pacific...

Business As Usual