August 2010 Who will make it to the winners’ circle? See story on page 4 Available online at www.Lopezlink.ph FSCI: Harvesting the fruits of the Balanced Scorecard AS they say on Facebook, “it’s complicated”—sort of—but did you vices and gadgets, including cameras, cell phones and music know that the laptop or smartphone you use to access your favorite players. social networking site or even read Lopezlink.ph may just have a First Sumiden Circuits Inc. (FSCI) has churned out millions bit of the Lopez Group in it? upon millions of these FPCs from its corner of the sprawling The key is the flexible printed circuits (FPC), those small, Light Industry and Science Park (LISP) 1 in Cabuyao, Laguna lightweight wiring components with electronic circuits print- since it went full blast with its manufacturing operations in June Turn to page 6 OML passes the ed on a flexible film that are used in today’s must-have de- 1997. torch… page 4 Lopez Holdings Corp.’s new logo and what it signifies. … page 2 FSCI is a full-process and assembly plant capable of meeting cyclical demands for flexible ‘Pilipinas, printed circuits, its main product. Win na Win’ replaces ‘Wowowee’ Lopez Group faces new beginnings ...page 5 THE Lopez Group of companies looks both expressed relief at the relative peace promise of bright new beginnings for our forward to new beginnings as normalcy reigning over the group businesses, and businesses and hopefully, for the entire returns to its operating units for the first over the country as a whole. country,” OML said. time in nearly a decade. “For the first time in quite some time, “It’s peace time,” MML quipped as he At the midyear review on July 21, chair- we are privileged to be able to gather here narrated how at the height of typhoon man emeritus Oscar M. Lopez (OML) in a midyear review with, at worst, a clean Turn to page 2 and chairman Manuel M. Lopez (MML) slate in front of us, and at best, with the 2 3 Lopezlink August 2010 Lopezlink August 2010 LOPEZ GROUP... company; knowledge of ma- June 2010 TV ratings from page 1 jor partners and customers; Speeding to the future with Bayan and identification of major SKY digitization AT the contract signing of technological demands of busi- Bayan will provide redundant explained Jon Arayata, head of strategic issues and concerns Bayan Business and Fort Boni- nesses in its area. network topologies. These Bayan Business. “If something for resolution or decision, ABS-CBN continues to lead facio Development Corpora- As part of the agreement, guarantee that network down- happens to a segment, it’s au- especially with respect to in- in full swing tion—comprised of the pow- Bayan Business will service time caused by a single point tomatically routed to another vestments and partnerships. SKYCABLE Corp.’s drive to go digital is now in high gear, erhouse partnership of Ayala the Bonifacio Global City’s of failure in the connections is leg. It’s a fail-safe system that Most operating units re- in national, Mega, metro with the company targeting to convert at least 80% of its sub- Land Inc., Evergreen Holdings E-square district, a Philippine eliminated. ensures the connection is not ported performance within scribers from the analog platform by the end of the year. Inc. (Campos Group) and the Economic Zone Authority in- “It’s interconnected to our interrupted.” expectations, with some ex- IN June, Filipinos nationwide Kapamilya’s lead in Mega taking the lead with To date, 60% of SKY subscribers are still on analog transmis- Bases Conversion Develop- formation technology park. fiber rings, meaning this ring is With Bayan’s entry into the ceeding budgets for the first tuned in to the intensifying sto- Manila average audience share an average rating of sion. Of the estimated 500,000 subscribers, about 200,000 are ment Authority—the develop- To ensure that corporations actually redundant—one is con- district, technology truly runs half of the year. A few ex- ry of “Agua Bendita,” witnessed increased to 36% against GMA 40.3%. “Pilipinas Got based in Metro Manila. ment affirmed its commitment will receive uninterrupted, re- nected to our Makati node, the to the core of Bonifacio Global perienced a challenging first Jovit Baldivino’s triumph at 7’s 34%. Year-on-year, ABS- Talent” secured the The move is seen to help curb, if not totally eliminate, cable to catering to the fast-paced liable and high-speed service, other is with our Pasig node,” City. (Freya Santos) semester but have instituted the first “Pilipinas Got Talent,” CBN’s audience share in Mega second spot for its TV signal piracy. With digitization, only TV sets hooked up measures to aid recovery in and saw James Reid declared Manila grew by .8 points from Sunday airing with to digital set-top boxes, where the channels are encrypted, can the latter part of the year. as the big winner in “Pinoy Big 35.2% in June 2009, while 37.2% and the third Manuel M. Lopez receive signals. OML called attention to Brother Teen Clash 2010,” driv- GMA’s audience share lost seven spot for its Saturday Silliman U establishes OML professorial chair SKY in 2009 had invested around P700 million largely for its Basyang he was able to go to the the “emergence of formidable ing ABS-CBN to the top of points from 40% in June 2009. airing with 36.7%. shift from analog to digital. Of this amount, at least P200M was SILLIMAN University in growth and reputa- Power Plant Mall in Rockwell new competitors, some with the national, Mega Manila, and Metro Manila continues to Flagship news spent to install more digital set-top boxes among its subscribers, Dumaguete City has estab- tion as a world-class Center which had uninter- war chests more substantial Metro Manila TV ratings sur- become an ABS-CBN baili- program “TV Patrol said chief operations officer Carlo Katigbak. lished a professorial chair in geothermal and re- rupted power supply. As non- than ours, itching to move veys by Kantar Media/TNS. wick with an audience share of World” remains the most watched Big Night” where Fil-Austra- As of March 2009, the company had installed 90,000 digital energy engineering in honor of newable energy firm. executive chairman of Meralco, into our businesses and to ABS-CBN trashed compe- 38%, or six points higher than primetime newscast with 32.9% lian James Reid emerged as the boxes, with another batch of 60,000 to 70,000 boxes scheduled Energy Development Corpora- In return, we want to MML did not feel compelled wrest market leadership away tition once again in the nation- GMA 7’s 32%. versus its rival “24 Oras” which Teen Big Winner grabbed the to be installed in Metro Manila alone. tion (EDC) chairman Oscar M. help the university to be at the Meralco control from our companies.” wide ratings game as it hit an It bagged all 10 slots in the only landed in the 22nd slot with ninth slot with 27.6%. Fashion- To date, SKY, which had earlier acquired the assets of Lopez (OML). in providing excel- center nor at the Meralco call MML said the reported audience share of 44%, or 13 combined weekday and weekend 21.3%. serye “Magkaribal” top billed PLDT subsidiary Home Cable Corp. in a share-swap scheme, The Oscar M. Lopez Distin- lent education to center which used to be a must first half performance of the points higher than GMA 7’s Top 10 most watched programs “Pinoy Big Brother Teen Edi- by Gretchen Barretto and Bea has poured around $2M for the station’s headend and around guished Professorial Chair in En- its students and en- when he was still chief executive group was “very encouraging” 31%. for June with “Agua Bendita” still tion Clash 2010: Unite at the Alonzo ranked 11th in the $4.5M for the acquisition of digital set-top boxes. ergy Engineering will be awarded couraging its faculty of the electric utility. and reminded executives of overall programs for June with The share-swap scheme resulted in the Lopez Group’s ending to qualified faculty of the univer- to conduct more re- MML has made it his pri- two major sources of growth: only less than a week of air- up with a 66.67% share in Home Cable and the PLDT Group sity and funded through the P3 searches and studies OML hands over the P3 million check to Silliman University president Dr. Ben ority to know all the group obtaining higher efficiencies ing, hitting an average rating of 33.33%. After the conversion into equity of debts extended by million donation by EDC and its on geothermal and Malayang. Also in photo are Connie Lopez, First Gen chairman Federico R. Lopez and companies and their leaders New name, new logo 27.3%. through increased synergy parent firm, First Gen Corp. renewable energy,” Other ABS-CBN programs ABS-CBN Corp., ABS-CBN now holds a majority stake in First Holdings VP Jay Lopez. and employees. Outside of and growing the business it- and concern for employee welfare and wellness. “We recognize the stature of OML stated. in the top 10 include “Kung SKY. the bottomline, he identi- self with higher volumes or by The practice of the Lopez values throughout Silliman University as a premiere Silliman University has been and Teacher Education, and countancy Education. It is also Tayo’y Magkakalayo” (34.5%), fied as performance areas the exploring new, related busi- generations is meant to create companies that institution of higher learning in designated by the Commission as a Center of Development in actively involved in research “Maalaala Mo Kaya” (33.2%), strategic positioning of each nesses.