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| Mayor Isko Moreno and SMC COO, Mr. Ramon Ang/photo courtesy of The Manila Times |
Manila, Philippines – Manila Mayor
Francisco “Isko Moreno” Domagoso, has been calling all businessmen to have invest
in manila, and that he is giving incentives to investors.
Moreno announced in an interview
that the country’s business tycoons have responded to his call to invest in Manila and
return the glory that had been lost for a long time.
“A lot of them have committed to help – Ricky
Razon, Tessie Sy, Lance Gokongwei, Doris Magsaysay-Ho, all of them have agreed
to help the city,”
Moreno said last week at the opening of San Miguel Corp.’s learning center and
food facility in Tondo.
Mayor Isko added that the country’s capital has been a huge part
of their lives one way or another. He also wishes that these businessmen to invest so they could help
Manila in a much bigger impact for the poor.
“Their
investment is now being studied. We are now working on our counter-proposal so
let’s say, if they want to come here, we will give them these options. We will
protect their businesses from corruption and we can show them the possibilities
on how they can invest,”
he said.
Moreno is eyeing tourism,
energy-saving, environment, and different industries as possible business investments.
He wants to revive the famous
bridges in Manila and how it was during the Spanish time. “We will bring you
back in time,” he said.
He has been marketing Manila to
all possible investors to do business in Manila as his main goal to give back all the benefits to his fellow Manileños.
“We
will try to reach that kind of goal with everyone’s help,” he said.
One of the biggest companies to
respond to Moreno’s call, is San Miguel Corporation’s, Chief Operating Officer
Mr. Ramon Ang.
Moreno and SMC president and COO
Ramon Ang formally opened the Tondo facility, the first of its kind learning
facility and food bank right in the heart of Tondo which targets the poorest
barangays in Manila.
Better World Tondo center aims to
provide the poorest barangays of Manila access to food, as well as tools to
allow them to improve their lives.
Ang said more than a food bank,
the center is a learning facility that aims to help improve the lives of the
children of Tondo.
“Better
World Tondo was a concept we’ve had for some time. We want to be able to
collaborate with businesses and companies to collect excess food, store them in
a food bank, to be served to those in need by community volunteers. It’s food
rescue to address hunger, which is still a major problem for many sectors of
our society,” Ang
said.
Source: Philstar
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