Friday, September 10, 2010

3 Philippine Firms Among Forbes Asia’s Top 200 Smallest and Midsize Companies

Forbes magazine issued its index of the 200 top small scale and midsized companies of Asia (with $1 billion revenues and below)

Some highlights presented by Forbes:

-China maintains the most with 71 but is down from 78 last year

-Indian companies shot up to 39 from 20 last year

-Vietnam made a debut with Vinamilk

-only 2 Japanese companies made cut down from 24 last year

-151 names are new compared to 2009 list

-technology companies (hardware and software) seem to be making the growth inroads as well health care issues

Additional comment:

Among the ASEAN 4: Thailand has 11, Malaysia has 7, Philippines has 3 while Indonesia has one

See the complete list here

For the Philippines: They include Lopez Holdings (classified as media), Pacific Online system (household products) and Philweb (software services)

See charts below: (note: this does NOT in anyway represent a stock TIP)

Lopez Holdings (LPZ)

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Pacific Online (LOTO)

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Philweb (WEB)

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