ABS-CBN taps new partner for Middle East market
ABS-CBN Corp., the listed television broadcast arm of the Lopez Group, has tapped a new partner to offer additional channels aimed at Filipinos based in the Middle East.
ABS-CBN Corp., the listed television broadcast arm of the Lopez Group, has tapped a new partner to offer additional channels aimed at Filipinos based in the Middle East.
Integreon, a business process outsourcing firm under the Ayala group, has bagged a new deal with US-based SNL Financial (SNL) that will expand the local pool of professionals serving the latter’s financial research and business support requirements.

Local power developer Isabela Power Corp. is in talks with Alloy-MTD Group of Malaysia for a possible partnership for a proposed $150-million (roughly P6 billion) hydropower plant in Isabela.
Manuel V. Pangilinan is ready to take his group’s business partnership with the Gokongwei family a step further, eyeing possible new projects in the power generation sector to meet the country’s growing demand.
Century Properties Group Inc. is breaking into Bonifacio Global City’s burgeoning office and hotel property markets in partnership with the Alvarez group’s Asian Carmakers Corp. (ACC).
C.V. Starr and Co. Inc., a global insurer and financial services provider, is in talks with Philam Life on a potential deal that will help it expand its Asian operations by doing business in the Philippines.
Tycoon Henry Sy seeks to cement his leading position in the Philippine retailing and shopping mall businesses by forging an alliance with the Waltermart group of the Lim family.
Listed firm Calata Corp. said it had signed an exclusive 20-year contract with Siembra Directa Corp. for the supply of agricultural inputs for the latter’s farm operations in the Philippines.
Ayala Land Inc. will soon debut into the department store retailing format in partnership with the Rustan’s group by investing in the anchor tenant of a new Ayala shopping center rising in Fairview, Quezon City.
Leisure estate and gaming firm Belle Corp. has sealed a deal to take in Macau casino giant Melco Crown Entertainment Ltd. (MCE) as strategic partner in the $1-billion entertainment complex that will rise in front of Pagcor Entertainment City in Parañaque City by next year.
Century Properties Group Inc. has inked a strategic partnership with telecom giant Philippine Long Distance Telephone Co. to provide bundled digital connectivity and telecom services to the property developer’s high-rise residential developments.
Electricity Generating Public Co. Ltd. (EGCO) of Thailand is keen on partnering with Manila Electric Co. (Meralco) for its power plant expansion in Quezon province while looking for other opportunities, including plant acquisitions, a company official said.