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European investors eye First Pacific’s 24.4% stake in PLDT

October 8, 2002 - 12:00am

A group of European investors based in Singapore has offered to acquire the 24.4 percent stake of First Pacific Co. Ltd. in the Philippine Long Distance Telephone Co. (PLDT).

Business

Tonyboy, Manny prepare final offer to First Pacific

October 7, 2002 - 12:00am

Businessman Antonio O. Cojuangco and Manuel V. Pangilinan, chairman and president of the Philippine Long Distance Telephone Co. (PLDT), respectively...

Business

PLDT management wins 1st round in FPC-Gokongwei buyout issue

October 1, 2002 - 12:00am

The Philippine Long Distance Telephone Co. (PLDT) management may have won the first round in the battle to prevent its parent firm First Pacific Co. Ltd. from selling its controlling shares in the country's biggest...

Business

Cojuangco, Pangilinan retain PLDT posts

June 12, 2002 - 12:00am

What was supposed to be a non-occasion turned into a circus of sorts as the annual stockholders meeting and board election of the Philippine Long Distance Telephone Co. (PLDT) yesterday turned into a show...

Business