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MPIC profit surges 27% in H1

August 3, 2015 - 10:00am

Infrastructure conglomerate Metro Pacific Investments Corp. (MPIC) expects its core net income to hit P10 billion by yearend...

Business

First Pac investing add’l P97 B in Phl

By Zinnia B. Dela Peña | November 10, 2014 - 12:00am

The First Pacific group led by businessman Manuel V. Pangilinan is investing an additional P97 billion in the Philippines...

Business

PLDT investor relations effort tops poll among Phl firms

December 18, 2013 - 12:00am

For the fifth consecutive year, leading telecoms firm PLDT is again recognized for having the Best Investor Relations by a Philippine company at the 2013 Investor Relations (IR) Magazine South East Asia Awards held...

Business

Top conglomerates eye PPP projects

By Neil Jerome C. Morales | November 25, 2013 - 12:00am

Several of the country’s top conglomerates have expressed renewed interest in the government-approved public-private...

Business

Conglomerates renew interest in LRT 1 expansion

By Neil Jerome C. Morales | October 24, 2013 - 12:00am

The country’s top conglomerates have expressed renewed interest in participating in the country’s largest Public-Private Partnership (PPP) project to date following the government’s move to revise...

Business

Despite low takeup: SMIC, MPIC to proceed with ADR program

By Neil Jerome C. Morales | August 12, 2013 - 12:00am

Two of the country’s top conglomerates are optimistic in terms of attracting US-based stock market investors through American Depositary Receipts (ADRs).

Business

MPIC pins hopes on new investments

By Zinnia B. Dela Peña | October 29, 2012 - 12:00am

Metro Pacific Investments Corp. (MPIC) is banking on new investments in infrastructure such as airports, tollroads and light rail transit  as well as waste management and green energy,  to spur faster growth...

Business

MPIC income nearly doubles in Q1

By Zinnia B. Dela Peña | May 10, 2012 - 12:00am

Metro Pacific Investments Corp. (MPIC), the local flagship of Hong Kong-based conglomerate First Pacific Co. Ltd., jacked up its net income by 91 percent to P1.57 billion in the first quarter this year, buoyed by...

Business

Metro Pac to hike Central Luzon investments

By Ding Cervantes | August 18, 2011 - 12:00am

A month after being named the official concessionaire of the Subic-Clark-Tarlac Expressway, the Metro Pacific Investments Corp. (MPIC) disclosed that it is pouring in more investments in Central Luzon.

Business

MPIC seeks P8 billion to fund tollroad, hospital projects

By Zinnia B. Dela Peña | August 7, 2010 - 12:00am

HONG KONG – Metro Pacific Investments Corp. (MPIC), the Philippine flagship of Hong Kong-based industrial conglomerate First Pacific Co. Ltd., is hoping to raise up to P8 billion over the next two years from...

Business