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SL Agritech Returns to the PDEx Organized Secondary Market
Posted on: December 14, 2016
14 December 2016, Makati Philippines – SL Agritech Corporation (SLAC), the country’s lone hybrid rice seeds and premium rice producer, returned to the PDEx market a second time to list its PhP 1.5 Billion Commercial Paper (CP) Program.
With SLAC’s second listing, the Issuer now has a cumulative level of PhP 2.5 billion worth of CPs listed on the PDEx platform, pushing the year-to-date total volume of new listings in PDEx to PhP 131.16 billion.
This fifteenth listing for the year brought the total level of tradable corporate debt instruments to PhP 641.62 Billion issued by 40 companies, comprised of 115 securities.
PDS Group President and CEO Cesar B. Crisol said: “We take inspiration in the story and success of the Lim family’s foray from the paper into rice research and production and hope to apply the same fortitude requisite toward reaching our own aspiration for a sustainable Philippine capital market characterized by the right balances between efficiency and regulation, liquidity and transparency.”
SLAC President and CEO Dr. Henry Lim Bon Liong remarked: “Our ability to meet our financial obligation has been tested. The investors that participated in our first commercial paper offering can attest to this. It was made possible because we anchored our ability to meet our financial obligation on our growth and on our efficient use of resources.”
The event was held at the PDS Group Assembly Hall and was graced by directors and officers from SLAC including President and CEO Dr. Henry Lim Bon Liong, Director Joseph Lim Bon Huan, CFO Gerry Lim Bon Hiong, and Director Evelyn C. Lim.
The issue participants who attended the listing ceremony were Multinational Investment Bancorporation President Marilou C. Cristobal, AB Capital and Investment Corporation President Senen L. Matoto, and Philippine Commercial Capital, Inc. Vice President/Investment Banking Head Gonzalo Benjamin A. Bongolan. #