James Ryan Jonas

Sked of Annual Stockholders Meeting of listed firms

The Annual Stockholders Meeting is an opportunity for a company’s shareholders to listen to their executives talk about the firm’s performance during the past year and plans and projects for the upcoming year. Also during this time, major issues related to the operations of the business are tackled and several high-level decisions that need stockholders’ approval are discussed.
Here’s a list of the Stockholders’ Meetings of some of publicly-listed Philippine firms. If you own shares of these firms before the ex-date (four days before the Record Date), you are eligible to participate in the Meeting. Normally, you just need to bring a Certification that you own shares of company to be able to attend the meeting. Contact your broker for details on how you can get this Certification.

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Updates on the Royal Manchester Five scam

Just a month after the Royal Manchester Five scam became public, there seems to be less media attention now and the enthusiasm of victims to run after the scammers is beginning to die down.

We scoured the internet for recent updates on this scam but failed to get news on major developments. Here’s what we’ve seen, though.

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Long 12-day holiday during Christmas 2008

Did you know that we’re having an almost 2-week long holiday this Christmas 2008?
A combination of special non-working days and the government’s policy of holiday economics — wherein specific holidays are moved to the nearest Mondays — made possible as many as 12 consecutive vacation days this December 2008.

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2 Filipinos fined for taking plane 'souvenirs'

Beware of taking “souvenirs” from airplanes — blankets, pillows, life jackets, etc. — or you might be penalized for doing it.
That’s what two Filipinos discovered when they were each fined HK$2,000 (P10,700) for taking with them life jackets from their Cathay Pacific flight from Dubai.

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Google’s April Fool’s joke: Adsense for Conversations

Google does have a funny side and it shows every year in its collection of April Fool’s Day hoaxes.

In the past, it offered TISP, a free broadband service that would make use of a standard toilet and sewage lines to provide free Internet connectivity.

It also launched Google Romance, an online dating service which uses “Soulmate Search” to get back search results that could, in theory, include the love of one’s life.

Google started venturing into food and beverage too by introducing Google Gulp, a line of “smart drinks” designed to maximize people’s surfing efficiency by making them more intelligent, and less thirsty.

Adsense for Conversations

This year, Google took the contextual advertising power of Adsense further by offering Adsense for Conversations.

Adsense for what? That’s Adsense for real and actual conversations, where people talking will “begin displaying ads that are relevant to the topics you’re discussing — in an unobtrusive screen above your head.” (see image)

How does it work? Read on.

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San Miguel Brewery IPO

Shares of the beer unit of food and beverage conglomerate San Miguel Corporation will be listed on the Philippine Stock Exchange starting May 12.

Investors, however, can subscribe to the initial public offering (IPO) of San Miguel Brewery Inc. (SMB) from April 28.

More than 1.8 billion common shares will be sold to the public. Of this, 77 million to 154.8 million will be new shares, while 693.4 million to 1.4 billion will be shares currently owned by San Miguel Corp.

The offer price range is set at Php 8.00 – 15.40 per share. The offer price will be finalized on April 25.

At its lowest, the company expects to raise P7.1 billion from the IPO, proceeds of which will be used by the parent company to venture into new capital-intensive businesses such as energy and mining.

Discuss the SMB IPO and other IPO updates in the IPO Discussion, News and Updates thread in the PMT Forum.Shares of the beer unit of food and beverage conglomerate San Miguel Corporation will be listed on the Philippine Stock Exchange starting May 12.

Investors, however, can subscribe to the initial public offering (IPO) of San Miguel Brewery Inc. (SMB) from April 28.

Shares of the beer unit of food and beverage conglomerate San Miguel Corporation will be listed on the Philippine Stock Exchange starting May 12.

Investors, however, can subscribe to the initial public offering (IPO) of San Miguel Brewery Inc. (SMB) from April 28.

More than 1.8 billion common shares will be sold to the public. Of this, 77 million to 154.8 million will be new shares, while 693.4 million to 1.4 billion will be shares currently owned by San Miguel Corp.

The offer price range is set at Php 8.00 – 15.40 per share. The offer price will be finalized on April 25.

At its lowest, the company expects to raise P7.1 billion from the IPO, proceeds of which will be used by the parent company to venture into new capital-intensive businesses such as energy and mining.

Discuss the SMB IPO and other IPO updates in the IPO Discussion, News and Updates thread in the PMT Forum.Shares of the beer unit of food and beverage conglomerate San Miguel Corporation will be listed on the Philippine Stock Exchange starting May 12.

Investors, however, can subscribe to the initial public offering (IPO) of San Miguel Brewery Inc. (SMB) from April 28.

More than 1.8 billion common shares will be sold to the public. Of this, 77 million to 154.8 million will be new shares, while 693.4 million to 1.4 billion will be shares currently owned by San Miguel Corp.

The offer price range is set at Php 8.00 – 15.40 per share. The offer price will be finalized on April 25.

At its lowest, the company expects to raise P7.1 billion from the IPO, proceeds of which will be used by the parent company to venture into new capital-intensive businesses such as energy and mining.

Discuss the SMB IPO and other IPO updates in the IPO Discussion, News and Updates thread in the PMT Forum.Shares of the beer unit of food and beverage conglomerate San Miguel Corporation will be listed on the Philippine Stock Exchange starting May 12.

Investors, however, can subscribe to the initial public offering (IPO) of San Miguel Brewery Inc. (SMB) from April 28.

More than 1.8 billion common shares will be sold to the public. Of this, 77 million to 154.8 million will be new shares, while 693.4 million to 1.4 billion will be shares currently owned by San Miguel Corp.

The offer price range is set at Php 8.00 – 15.40 per share. The offer price will be finalized on April 25.

At its lowest, the company expects to raise P7.1 billion from the IPO, proceeds of which will be used by the parent company to venture into new capital-intensive businesses such as energy and mining.

Discuss the SMB IPO and other IPO updates in the IPO Discussion, News and Updates thread in the PMT Forum.

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