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                    [Title] => Coco farmers hail SC rule on SMC shares conversion
                    [Summary] => 

A group representing more than one million farmers lauded the Supreme Court’s recent decision to allow the conversion of sequestered San Miguel Corp. (SMC) common shares into preferred shares, saying that this is for the betterment of the coconut industry.

[DatePublished] => 2009-10-19 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => Business [SectionUrl] => business [URL] => ) [1] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 504631 [Title] => Coco farmers urge government to pursue share swap of SMC stake [Summary] =>

An umbrella group representing more than a million coconut farmers has urged the government to pursue the timely conversion of its sequestered San Miguel Corp. (SMC) common shares into preferred shares that will provide earnings of approximately P4.5 billion yearly to the country’s ailing coconut industry.

[DatePublished] => 2009-09-14 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => Business [SectionUrl] => business [URL] => ) [2] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 143486 [Title] => Joecon-led group and PCGG agree on plan to unlock coco levy funds [Summary] => The government and a multisectoral group led by businessman Jose Concepcion Jr. have agreed on a common strategy to unfreeze the controversial coconut levy funds now estimated at some P130 billion.

The strategy is hinged on the idea that the 31 percent stake in food and beverage conglomerate San Miguel Corp. "uncontestably" belongs to coconut farmers and should be returned to them by next year.
[DatePublished] => 2001-12-13 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1804896 [AuthorName] => Sheila Crisostomo [SectionName] => Headlines [SectionUrl] => headlines [URL] => ) ) )
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