Tag: First Philippine Holdings

• [2009] Lopez: Meralco needs gov’t support to be profitable

  NOTE: This was a story I wrote a year after the Lopez family ‘sacrificed’ their stake in Meralco. In 2008, the family business was under attack due to the conglomerate’s media arm ABS-CBN’s news coverage that was critical of the then Arroyo government. This story captured the sentiments of the patriarch then, Oscar Lopez. This…