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WPH plans to manufacture/assemble and export to Europe  2,080,000 pieces of GPS electronic devices.


WPH applied for registration on a pioneer status  with the Board of Investments (BOI) for its new project.


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Wistron already manufactures computers, personal digital assistants (PDAs) and computer motherboards in Subic.


It has sought and gotten approval from the Board of Investments (BOI) to register on a pioneer status its new testing and service facility for the electronics industry.


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                    [Title] => Ecozone investments surge 131%
                    [Summary] => Total investments in the country’s economic zone surged by  a strong 131 percent to P28.43 billion in the first seven months of the year from only  P12.30 billion in the same period last year, the Philippine Economic Zone Authority (PEZA) reported yesterday.


In July alone, new economic zone investments that PEZA approved amounted to P1.186 billion.


PEZA did not provide a month-on-month comparison although it said economic zone investments in July are expected to generate annual average export sales of $114.37 billion and direct employment of 2,248.


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The decline was attributed mainly to the drop in shipments of Taiwanese computer giant Wistron Infocomm Phlippines Corp. (formerly Acer Corp.) due to poor global demand.


Wistron’s exports plunged by about 60 percent to only $429.7 million in 2003 from $1.06 billion in 2002.


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Taiwan’s Wistron Infocomm to invest add’l P399M in RP

By Marianne V. Go | September 20, 2006 - 12:00am

Wistron Infocomm (Phils.) Corp. (WPH), a wholly-owned subsidiary of Taiwan’s Wistron Corp., is investing an additional P398.813 million to assemble global positioning system (GPS) electronic devices in its existing...

Business

Former Acer to invest additional P43.4M in Subic

By Marianne V. Go | January 31, 2006 - 12:00am

Wistron Infocomm (Phils.) Corp. (formerly Acer) is investing an additional P43.356 million to establish a new testing and service facility in Subic. Wistron already manufactures computers, personal digital assistants...

Business

Ecozone investments surge 131%

By Marianne V. Go | August 12, 2004 - 12:00am

Total investments in the country’s economic zone surged by a strong 131 percent to P28.43 billion in the first seven months of the year from only P12.30 billion in the same period last year, the Philippine...

Business

Subic exports down sharply in 2003

By Marianne V. Go | January 20, 2004 - 12:00am

Export earnings from companies located inside the Subic Bay Freeport declined by 48 percent to $685.42 million in 2003 from $1.32 billion in 2002, the Subic Bay Metropolitan Authority (SBMA) reported yesterday. The...

Business

Subic generates 18,000 new jobs in 11 months

December 18, 2001 - 12:00am

SUBIC BAY FREEPORT – The first two months of the last quarter saw a big growth in employment here, bringing the total to 18,678 new jobs provided from January to November this year under President Arroyo’s...

Business