Corporate

McDonald’s Philippines is widening its pool of local chicken suppliers as its restaurant network heads toward 900 stores, giving the domestic poultry industry another potentially sizeable customer.

Ayala Land Inc. is moving up the global sustainability scoreboard, and it is not a small step.

Listed PhilWeb Corp. (PSE: WEB) has elected Lance Y. Gokongwei as chairman of its board, completing a governance overhaul following his P2.02 billion strategic investment in the company and appointment as a director in July.

The Bureau of Internal Revenue (BIR), led by Commissioner Charlito Martin R. Mendoza, and Ayala Corporation, represented by Karl Kendrick Chua, Data Science and Artificial Intelligence Group Head, signed a Memorandum of Agreement on August 25, 2026 for the AI-powered Terry the Tax AI Assistant designed to help BIR personnel retrieve, cross-reference, and analyze tax regulations, rulings, BIR issuances, and related tax materials more efficiently.

As companies adopt more apps, cloud services, and connected tools, a steady, reliable network has become the backbone of daily operations—but growing complexity means IT teams now spend valuable hours chasing alerts, tracing faults, and fixing connections instead of building technology that drives business forward.