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                    [Title] => Lopez group defers sale of half of Beyond Cable stake
                    [Summary] => The Lopez group has decided to defer indefinitely the sale of half of its holdings in Beyond Cable, the company created to consolidate the country’s two leading cable television companies namely Sky Cable and Home Cable, The STAR learned yesterday.


Proceeds from the sale was supposed to be used by the Lopez group largely to support its other businesses, which badly need funding from the parent firm, Benpres Holdings, as well as to improve operations of Sky Cable. Aside from primary shares, the Lopez group was also earlier looking at offering secondary shares.


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                    [Title] => US shoppers shopped, until they dropped
                    [Summary] => You have to give them credit for doing the patriotic thing. American shoppers kept their economy going through 9/11 and the slump in industrial demand. As CNN Money puts it, American consumers ignored a recession, nearly 1.8 million job cuts and other horrors, as they tirelessly spent money in the past year, and much of that spending was fueled by borrowing.


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                    [Title] => Lopez group defers sale of half of Beyond Cable stake
                    [Summary] => The Lopez group has decided to defer indefinitely the sale of half of its holdings in Beyond Cable, the company created to consolidate the country’s two leading cable television companies namely Sky Cable and Home Cable, The STAR learned yesterday.


Proceeds from the sale was supposed to be used by the Lopez group largely to support its other businesses, which badly need funding from the parent firm, Benpres Holdings, as well as to improve operations of Sky Cable. Aside from primary shares, the Lopez group was also earlier looking at offering secondary shares.


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GMA-7 asks NTC to stop merger of Sky, Home Cable

January 2, 2004 - 12:00am

GMA Network, Inc. has asked the National Telecommunications Commission (NTC) to stop the merger of Central CATV, Inc. (SkyCable) and Philippine Home Cable Holdings, Inc. (Home Cable), which could lead to a monopoly...

Business

Lopez group defers sale of half of Beyond Cable stake

February 25, 2003 - 12:00am

The Lopez group has decided to defer indefinitely the sale of half of its holdings in Beyond Cable, the company created to consolidate the country’s two leading cable television companies namely Sky Cable and...

Business

US shoppers shopped, until they dropped

By Boo Chanco | October 11, 2002 - 12:00am

You have to give them credit for doing the patriotic thing. American shoppers kept their economy going through 9/11 and the slump in industrial demand. As CNN Money puts it, American consumers ignored a recession,...

Business