BIZ BUZZ: Gotianuns woo night golfers
The Gotianun family has long made a big bet on the Clark growth corridor, investing not just in hundreds of hectares of real estate development but in airport infrastructure as well.
In partnership with Clark Development Corp. and the Bases Conversion and Development Authority, the Filinvest group aims to generate 170,000 jobs upon the full buildup of Filinvest Mimosa Plus Leisure City and Filinvest New Clark City.
For golf enthusiasts, the 36-hole Mimosa Plus Golf Course offers two 18-hole, par-72 courses. The group highlights the use of Zoysia grass, which requires less water and is thus more planet-friendly. Mimosa Plus Golf Driving Range is likewise slated to open this year with 48 bays.
What’s more, the group installed 58 high-powered floodlights at the back nine of Acacia Course to enable golf playing well past sunset.
“Some people, like many Koreans, don’t like the sun,” Francis Gotianun, first senior vice president at Filinvest Hospitality Corp., recently told Biz Buzz.
While there are night golf courses in Metro Manila, Gotianun noted that this is the first in Clark that’s publicly available for tee time after dark, in as much as during the daytime.
And as Filinvest group marks its 70th anniversary, or platinum jubilee, this 2025, the opening salvo for the yearlong celebration is the launch of the Night Golf at Mimosa this week.
Meanwhile, Filinvest is building a 300-room, brand-new Crimson Hotel in Clark—still in line with its goal of helping to transform the former American air base into a premier destination for business and leisure. This will be the fourth location of its homegrown deluxe hotel-resort brand after Alabang, Cebu and Boracay Island. —Doris Dumlao-Abadilla
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Succession trend continues: Ocier version
The past year, we’ve been noticing a slew of succession plans from nearly every listed company we encounter, with next-generation leaders taking on bigger roles.
Of course, companies like AbaCore Capital Holdings Inc. and families such as Willy Ocier’s are no exception.
The tycoon behind Belle Corp. and Pacific Online Systems Corp. (POSC) quit his post as AbaCore director and handed the reins to his 37-year-old daughter, Mischel.
“My belief in the corporation’s future is unwavering,” Ocier said in an AbaCore stock exchange disclosure on Wednesday.
In endorsing Mischel, Ocier said he was “confident that her expertise, innovative spirit and commitment to excellence will be valuable assets to the team and will help propel the company to even greater heights.”
Mischel’s appointment also does not come out of nowhere.
She heads business development at POSC and is also in charge of strategic planning, sustainability efforts and maintaining corporate image.
Apart from that, Mischel is also POSC’s integrated management representative and chief risk officer.
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She graduated with a bachelor’s degree in management engineering from Ateneo de Manila University, and later took certificate courses at Tsinghua University in China and Josai International University in Japan.
With another role entrusted upon her, we’re hoping to see more of Mischel. —MEG J. ADONIS
