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3 unusual facts about Meralco


Meralco

President Corazon Aquino reverted company ownership to the López Family, without them paying for the state-funded improvements done during Martial Law.

Metro Pacific Investments Corporation

Beacon Electric Asset Holdings Inc.- consortium with PLDT which also owned by First Pacific, holds 42.6% controlling stake of the Manila Electric Company (Meralco).

Union F.C.

Immediately they organized regular informal games at the JOLLY... field inside Meralco compound.


Air21 Express

Before the Commissioner's Cup started, the team traded Mark Canlas, Dennis Daa, and a 2012 first round pick to the Meralco Bolts in exchange for bigmen Nelbert Omolon and Mark Isip.

DZAS

The station's new studio is located at 46th floor of One Corporate Centre, Meralco Avenue corner Doña Julia Vargas Avenue, Ortigas Center, Pasig City and the transmitter is located at Bocaue, Bulacan.

DZFE

The station's studio and transmitter are located at 46th floor of One Corporate Centre, Meralco Avenue corner Doña Julia Vargas Avenue, Ortigas Center, Pasig City.

Hacienda Luisita

Fearing the López might become too powerful after already owning Meralco, Negros Navigation, Manila Chronicle, ABS-CBN, various haciendas in Western Visayas and then the nearby PASUMIL consortium in del Carmen, Pampanga that they purchased from the Americans, the President offered the property to José Cojuangco, nicknamed "Pepe" through Magsaysay protégé and Cojuangco's son-in-law, Benigno Aquino.

Meralco Avenue

Other notable businesses on Meralco Avenue include UnionBank Plaza, Metrowalk and the upcoming mixed-use development called Capitol Commons at the former Rizal Provincial Capitol lot on Meralco and Shaw Boulevard.

National Power Corporation

Meralco units covered by the initial sale are those of Malaya 1 in Pililia, Rizal; Gardners 1 and II and Synders 1 and II in Sucat, Parañaque, and fuel storage facilities in San Pascual, Batangas.

Nelbert Omolon

On January 2012, after 8 years as a professional basketball player, Omolon got traded for the first time to Air21 from the Meralco Bolts along with Mark Isip in exchange for Dennis Daa, Mark Canlas and a draft pick that originally belonged to the Bolts.

Rosemarie Arenas

Ramon's mother is the very wealthy Doña Julieta Hofileña Lopez, sister to industrialist Don Eugenio Hofileña Lopez (ex-owner of Meralco, Negros Navigation, ABS-CBN) and former Vice President Fernando Lopez (owner of the University of Iloilo).

When In Manila

Local advertisers have included SM, Globe, Smart, BPI, Jollibee, Rufo's, Meralco, and PLDT.


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