The Philippine Star

Travellers Int’l to delist stocks

- — Iris Gonzales

Travellers Internatio­nal Hotel Group Inc. (TIHGI), owner and operator of Resorts World Manila (RWM), will delist from the Philippine Stock Exchange.

TIHGI said the move would allow the company to “timely address evolving market demands and rapidly changing customer needs without compromisi­ng its business strategies to competitio­n.”

In a meeting Wednesday, TIHGI approved the voluntary delisting of the common shares of RWM from the main board of the Philippine Stock Exchange in accordance with the Securities Regulation Code and the delisting rules of the PSE.

TIHGI would conduct a tender offer for up to 1.6 billion common shares held collective­ly by all shareholde­rs of the company other than Alliance Global Group Inc., Megaworld Corp., First Centro Inc., Adams Properties Inc., Star Cruises Philippine­s Holdings B.V., Asian Travellers Ltd., Premium Travellers Ltd. and the members of the board of directors with respect to their qualifying common shares.

Upon completion of the tender offer, at least 95 percent of the total listed and outstandin­g common shares of the company shall collective­ly be held by the non-public shareholde­rs.

The tender offer report will be filed with the SEC and the PSE on or before the commenceme­nt of the tender offer on Aug. 19.

TIHGI said a minimum of 825. 61 million common shares must be validly tendered.

It went public in 2013, 10 years after it was incorporat­ed on Dec. 17, 2003 primarily to engage in the business of hotels, restaurant­s, leisure parks, entertainm­ent centers and other related businesses, which include holding investment­s in and operating casinos and other gaming activities as part of its main operations.

The company is a joint venture partnershi­p between Andrew Tan’s Alliance Global Group Inc. and Genting Hong Kong Ltd. consumptio­n, access to health insurance, relief from underemplo­yment, and not having children who work instead of attending school.

In terms of dimension, education had the largest contributi­on to the MPI at 35.5 percent in 2016 and 36.9 percent in 2017.

Health and nutrition followed with a contributi­ons of 26.2 percent in 2016 and 27.5 percent in 2017.

The share of housing, water and sanitation to the MPI was 26.4 percent in 2016 and 27.4 percent in 2017. Employment dimension, on the other hand, had the least share to MPI at 10.9 percent in 2016 and 8.3 percent in 2017.

Based on the structure of the index, families are identified to be multidimen­sionally deprived if they register lack of access to or experience at least four of the 13 indicators.

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