04 Sep
2024
SM City Baguio’s Rainwater Treatment Facility: A Model for Water Sustainability
SM City Baguio is making significant strides in water stewardship with its innovative rainwater treatment facility (RTF), launched in July 2023. In the months since, the facility has already processed
30 Aug
2024
SM Prime Scores Big at the 14th Asian Excellence Award
SM Prime Holdings, Inc. (SM Prime), one of the leading integrated property developers in Southeast Asia, received awards at the 14th Asian Excellence Award by Corporate Governance Asia, held in
23 Aug
2024
Book Nook Expands Horizons with New Branch at The Podium
In a celebratory atmosphere brimming with literary enthusiasm and community spirit, the Book Nook launched its second branch at the fifth level of The Podium on August 15, 2024. Building
22 Aug
2024
Double Recognition for SM Supermalls at HR Asia Awards
SM Supermalls scored a double win at the 2024 HR Asia Awards held last Friday, August 16. Recognized as both a ‘Best Company to Work For’ for the second consecutive
22 Aug
2024
Highlands Residences’ Ochre Tower: Everyday adventures at Tagaytay Highlands
Tagaytay Highlands stands as the pinnacle of exclusive residential living in the Philippines, renowned for its signature log cabins and sweeping mountain views, all set against a backdrop of cool,
21 Aug
2024
Embracing Net Zero: The Philippines’ Urgent Call to Climate Action
As we enter the typhoon season, recent extreme weather events have once again underscored the Philippines’ vulnerability to such conditions. As the nation grapples with the potential aftermath, it is
17 Aug
2024
SM Prime Joins Global Conversation on Building Sustainable Cities for The Future
SM Prime Holdings (SM Prime) played a pivotal role in advancing sustainable urban development by hosting the 7th annual Association of Pacific Rim Universities – Sustainable Cities and Landscapes (APRU-SCL)
13 Aug
2024
SMX Convention Center Celebrates Grand Return of Culinaire 2024 Featuring 10 Partner Caterers
The largest convention center operator in the country SMX Convention Center marked the grand return of its signature culinary event, Culinaire last August 6, 2024 with the captivating theme “Flavor
09 Aug
2024
Collaborative Partnerships for Climate Resilience
The Philippines tops the list of countries with the highest disaster risk, thus building our capacity to respond, bounce back and adapt to intensifying climate impacts is a nationwide priority
06 Aug
2024
Building Sustainable Communities: The Future of Cities
What makes a city thrive is a combination of how developers create opportunities for movement, synergy, and prosperity. It’s a combination of celebrating life to its fullest capacity with the
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28 Dec
2007
SM Prime not yet listing on other exchanges
Shopping Mall Developer and operator SM Prime Holdings, Inc. will wait for the enactment of proposed law on real estate investment trust (REITs) before it considers listing in other exchanges, Executive Vice-President Jeffrey C. Lim said.
20 Dec
2007
SM Prime eyes P4B in loans in 2008
SM Prime Holdings Inc., the mall development arm of tycoon Henry Sy, is considering borrowing P4 billion in 2008 to help fund construction of new malls, a company official said.
20 Dec
2007
Banco de Oro to refinance 0m worth of tier 2 notes
The Sy-controlled Banco de Oro, the country’s fastest growing bank, will refinance about 0 million of its tier 2 notes next year, bank president Nestor Tan told reporters yesterday.
20 Dec
2007
SM bank, mall units to raise P12.4B
SM Investment Corp.’s banking and mall subsidiaries plan to get loans and issue debt totaling at least P12.4 billion (6 million) next year to fund expansion projects and refinance debt, officials said.
20 Dec
2007
SM Prime Plans To Borrow PHP4 Bln In ’08 To Partly Fund Capex
SM Prime Holdings Inc. (SMPH.PH), the Philippines’ largest mall operator by sales, plans to borrow PHP4 billion (.9 million) next year to partly fund its capital expenditure, which is estimated at PHP6 billion, Executive Vice-President Jeffrey Lim said Wednesday.
20 Dec
2007
SM to borrow locally for additional malls
THE country’s biggest mall builder and operator said it will borrow a substantial part of the money required for next year’s capital expenditures from the local market. In a briefing, Jeffrey C. Lim, SM Prime Holdings Inc. executive vice president, said the company will borrow P4 billion out of the P6-billion capex for next year while the balance would come from internally generated funds.
20 Dec
2007
SM Prime plans P4-B borrowings next yr
Shopping mall giant SM Prime Holdings Inc. plans to borrow P4 billion next year to fund the continued development of new malls and the expansion of existing ones. SM Prime executive vice president Jeffrey Lim said the company needs P6 billion to fund its capital expenditures next year.
11 Dec
2007
SM Prime Expands SM City Cebu with Opening of New Annex
SM Prime Holdings, Inc. (“SM Prime�?) has just expanded SM City Cebu with the opening of its new annex, bringing total GFA to 268,611 square meters (sqm), making it the largest SM mall in the Visayas region. The new wing of SM City Cebu, which will be inaugurated on November 30, 2007 has a gross floor area (GFA) of 107,049 sqm.
11 Dec
2007
SM Nation
At the education summit, held at the Asian Institute of Management, I acknowledged the breakthrough importance of the Commission on Higher Education’s Memo Order No. 39, which standardizes the Bachelor of Science in Business Administration program nationwide. But I suggested that the world it assumed was skewed.
11 Dec
2007
Shopping Center of the Year
The SM Mall of Asia recently received the Philippine Retailers Association’s Shopping Center of the Year Award during its 2007 Outstanding Filipino Retailers and Shopping Centers of the Year Night held recently at the Crowne Plaza in Ortigas.
