PHILIPPINES

Sole Proprietorship

Name of the Company: Paragua Food Products

Description: The Paragua Food Product., is a small scale family based or sole proprietorship enterprise duly recognized by the Department of Trade and Industry (DTI); Bureau of Foods and Drugs (BFAD); and having business permit from the City government. Sometime in 1999, it gains recognition as the first prize food product awardees category in the competition sponsored by DTI and the provincial government in the search for the ORIGINAL PALAWAN PASALUBONG contest.

Products/Services: Peanut Butter, Spicy Dilis, processed cashew nuts etc.

Location: Rafols Road Bgy. Sta. Monica WPU/BFAR Compound, Puerto Princesa 5300, PLW

Partnership

Name of the Company: Zambrano & Gruba Law Offices

Description: Zambrano & Gruba is a mid-sized, full-service law firm representing and advising clients in General Corporate & Commercial Matters, Tax, Banking, Finance & Capital Markets, and Foreign Investments in the . We act for a broad range of clients, from start up businesses to multinational conglomerates. Our practice is focused on commercial issues, such as mergers and acquisitions, corporate financing, real estate transactions, tax, commercial litigation, and labor relations. We represent our clients in all aspects of their businesses. We also help foreign businesses and companies in setting up their investments in the country. We perform business and corporate formation, secure tax incentives from government regulatory agencies, draft and negotiate lease agreements, and advise on regulatory concerns for industries such as business process outsourcing, retail, and manufacturing.

Zambrano and Gruba is the Philippine member of Lawyers Associated Worldwide (LAW), an international network of more than 100 independent law firms.

Products/Services: Fields of Practice in: Corporate and Commercial Matters, Tax, Banking, Finance & Capital Market, Foreign Investments, Cross Border Transactions, Infrastructures and BOT, Arrangements, Constitutional Law, Arbitration and ADR, Litigation, Labor Law, Outsourcing, Energy and Water, and Intellectual Property.

Location: 27th Floor, 88 Corporate Center 141 Sedeno St., Salcedo Village, City, 1227 Philippines Corporation

MERALCO

The Electric Company, popularly known as MERALCO, is the largest distributor of electric power in thePhilippines and the only electric power distributor that holds electric distribution in the 22 cities and 89 municipalities of . The company is also involved in industrial construction and engineering; business process re-engineering, power generation, information technology consultancy, e-business, energy-related solutions, real estate development, energy management, customer focused training solutions, shareholder value creation and corporate social responsibility. The acronym MERALCO came from the company's original name the Manila Electric Railroad and Light Company.

Roberto M. Paterno MERALCO is an investor-owned electric utility serving roughly a quarter of the estimated 94 million population of the Republic of the Philippines. It was organized as the Manila Electric Railroad and Light Company 107 years ago in 1903 to provide electric light and power and an electric street railway system to Manila and its suburbs. The facilities that Meralco built to provide these two services represented for many years the largest single investment of American private capital and know-how in the whole of East Asia. For a little more than four decades, Meralco provided Manilans their first modern mass public transportation system with electric streetcars which in the twenties were supplemented by busses. World War II destroyed the railway system beyond rehabilitation and Meralco gave up its transportation business in 1948, concentrating thenceforth on providing electricity. The electric service it provided powered much of the postwar rehabilitation and early industrialization of the young republic that became independent in 1946. In 1961, in a move considered daring at that time, a group of Filipino investors led by the entrepreneur Eugenio Lopez Sr. bought Meralco from its American owners, the first major American enterprise to be so 'Filipinized.' During the decade that followed, the new Filipino management built electric generating and distributing facilities at an unprecedented pace to meet the burgeoning needs of its franchise area; this was made possible by earning the confidence of international credit institutions like the Ex-Im Bank of the United States, the Ex-Im Bank of Japan, the International Finance Corporation (IFC), Kreditanstalt fur Wiederaufbau (KFW), and other banks, insurance companies, and major American, German and Japanese suppliers.

Meralco marches on to its 108th year of service in 2011. Consistently in the list of the Philippines’ top five corporations and cited among Asia’s finest, Meralco today serves over 4.8 million residential, commercial and industrial customers. It is strategically located to serve the country’s center of commerce and industry and its hub of government services and infrastructures. It services about 30 manufacturing economic zones, which also compete in the global market. Likewise, the Company caters to providers of outsourced business processes, both domestic and international. Meralco’s 9,337 sq. km. franchise area covers 31 cities and 80 municipalities including Metro Manila, the entire provinces of , and ; parts of the provinces of , , and . Electrification level in the franchise area is 99%. The franchise area is home to 25.5 million people, roughly a quarter of the entire Philippine population of 94 million, for whom it commits to deliver adequate, reliable, quality and affordable electric service 24 hours a day, seven days a week, year-round. It is within Meralco’s service area where almost half of the country’s Gross Domestic Product (GDP) is produced, one-third from Metro Manila alone. Consequently, 54% of the total electricity usage in the Philippines, or almost three-fourths of all electricity used in Luzon, is consumed in the Meralco area. Meralco today is about extraordinary vision. The entry of new perspectives into the Company already has a significant impact on how we engage our markets, enhancing customer satisfaction at the same time providing new opportunities to create superior value for our customers, the community and the country. Just as it has been for over a century, we continue to see Meralco as a partner for growth whose direct footprint in the communities and businesses we serve defines our continuing commitment to progress and nation-building.

Limited Liability Company

Name of the Company: BMW of North America L.L.C.

Description: BMW of North America, LLC (BMW NA) was established in 1975 as the United States importer of BMW luxury/performance vehicles. BMW of North America assumed import and distribution responsibilities for BMW motorcycles in 1980. BMW of North America also began to distribute light trucks in 1999. BMW of North America's Corporate Headquarters is located in Woodcliff Lake, New Jersey. Its Eastern Regional Headquarters and Technical Training Center is located in Woodcliff Lake, New Jersey. A Vehicle Preparation Center is in Port Jersey, NJ and a Regional Distribution Center is in Nazareth, PA.

Products/Services: High-End Cars, Trucks and other Vehicles

Location: BMW of North America, LLC 300, Chestnut Ridge Road, Woodcliff Lake, NJ 07675 S-Corporation

Name of the Company: Ferrelgas, Inc.

Description: Is an American supplier of propane. Ferrellgas has corporate operations in the Kansas City suburbs ofLiberty, Missouri and Overland Park, Kansas. The company was founded in 1939 by A.C. Ferrell in Atchison, Kansas. Renaming itself Ferrellgas when A.C.'s son James assumed control, the company expanded across the Missouri River to acquire a Rushville, Missouri dealer in 1968. In the next ten years, the company acquired other Midwestern dealers and established a wholesale operation, and profited amid the energy crises of 1973 and 1979. During that time, the Ferrellgas headquarters shifted, moving first to Platte City, Missouri before moving further east to Kearney. Its expansion continued, opening Ferrell North America, a propane and feedstock distribution arm, in 1977. In 2004 it acquired Blue Rhino. Ferrellgas is the second largest propane distributor in the United States. Products/Services: Propane Supplier (residential and business and agricultural), and autogas.

Location: Liberty Missouri, and Overland Park, Kansas

Joint Venture

Name of the Company: Sabra Dipping Corporation

Description: is a U.S.-based company which produces Middle Eastern-style food products, including hummus, eggplant dip, baba ghanoush, and Mediterranean salsa. All Sabra products are certified kosher and vegetarian, and are available throughout the U.S. and Canada. As of 2008, the company held a 34.7% market share for Mediterranean salads, dips and spreads. The company was founded in 1986 as Sabra-Blue & White Foods (Sabra being a nickname for an Israeli-born person and Blue & White representing the colors of the Flag of Israel). The company was bought in 2005 by Israeli food manufacturer Strauss. In March 2008, Strauss entered a joint-venture partnership with Frito-Lay, a division of the multinational PepsiCo corporation. Strauss owns 51% and PepsiCo 49% of the company. In November 2008, the company announced the construction of a new US$61 million plant in Chesterfield County, Virginia, expected to produce 260 jobs and come on line in mid-2010. The company grew over 50% between August 2008 and August 2009. During the run-up to the 2008 U.S. presidential election, Sabra commissioned sculptor Kirk Rademaker to create busts of candidates John McCain, Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton out of 100 pounds of hummus. Sabra launched its first U.S. national advertising campaign in March 2009, with the StrawberryFrog ad agency. In May 2009, the company began a series of promotional events in which it recreated "Mediterranean villages" in 11 major U.S. cities. In November 2009, Gadi Lesin, President and CEO of the Strauss group, announced that the market share of the Sabra Dipping Company had reached 40% in the United States, making it the largest hummus manufacturer in the world. During December 2010, Princeton University students voted down a referendum to request "an alternative brand of hummus in addition to Sabra" at campus dining facilities.

Products/Services: Hummus, Salsa, Veggie Dips, Guacamole, Vegetarian Sides, Pretzels

Location: USA based