Science Park of the Philippines, Inc. (SPPI), a pioneer in private industrial estate development and one of the largest developers in the country, recently hosted a business forum for locators from SPPI ecozones in Luzon at The Palms Country Club in Alabang, Muntinlupa City.
Organized to facilitate ease of business for partner locators, the forum allowed participants to engage in a fruitful discussion and consultation with guest speakers that included (seated from left) Philippine Economic Zone Authority (PEZA) director general Tereso Panga, Bureau of Internal Revenue (BIR) deputy commissioner Marissa Cabreros, and Bureau of Customs (BOC) acting chief Atty. Ferdinand Pauig. On the podium is SPPI vice president Patrick Allan Perez.
SPPI was established in 1989, and through the years, has gained the reputation of being a cutting-edge developer of industrial estates through its Light Industry & Science Park projects. Today, SPPI is regarded as one of the leaders in private industrial estate development in the country. It has the largest hectarage of PEZA-registered industrial estates developed and being developed with almost 1,000 hectares of aggregate area.
SPPI parks are home to Fortune 500 companies and major multinational companies including Procter & Gamble, Unilever, Pepsi, NEC, NXP and ST Microelectronics (both formerly Philips Electronics), First Sumiden, H.B. Fuller, Nippon Paint, and Continental Temic. Top Filipino export and manufacturing corporations therein include Concepcion Industries, Monde Nissin, Ionics Inc., A-tech, and Dactyl.