Jollibee Foods Corp. is cooking up another global growth push, setting aside P18 billion to P21 billion this year to open as many as 800 new stores—an expansion that could grow its footprint by up to 8 percent worldwide.
Mang Inasal founder Injap Sia and Jollibee founder Tony Tan Caktiong marked a major milestone on April 11 with the topping-off of the 680-room Hotel101-Madrid—just 11 months after construction began. The hotel is set to open in December 2025, in time for the highly anticipated Formula 1 Grand Prix in Madrid.
Jollibee Worldwide Pte. Ltd. (JWPL), a subsidiary of Jollibee Foods Corp., has appointed J.P. Morgan and Morgan Stanley as joint global coordinators and bookrunners for a potential U.S. dollar-denominated bond offering.
Jollibee Foods Corp. continued its steady expansion both locally and abroad, driving an 18 percent rise in net income to P10.32 billion last year. The growth keeps the company on track to meet its five-year goal of tripling net profit to P26 billion by 2028.
The Sugar Regulatory Administration (SRA) has issued an order requiring buyers to first purchase locally produced molasses before they are allowed to import supplies.
Electricity prices at the Wholesale Electricity Spot Market (WESM) rose by 10.1 percent in December, driven mainly by higher power demand in the Visayas and Mindanao, data from the Independent Electricity Market Operator of the Philippines (IEMOP) showed.
ABB is supplying a full electrification system for VITRO Santa Rosa, the Philippines’ first AI-ready hyperscale data center, located in Laguna. The 50-megawatt facility is designed for high reliability, energy efficiency, and future AI growth, as the country becomes one of the world’s fastest-growing data center markets.