Mighty Corporation feeds Payatas

Payatas dumpsite is still the largest open dumpsite in the Philippines and was reopened only months after the 2000 disaster at the request of scavengers and other residents of the area who depend on it for their livelihood. 

Wong Chu King Foundation providing assistance to poor and underprivileged sectors, entered into an agreement to fund the feeding of malnourished children from poor families residing at the garbage dumpsite in Barangay Payatas. 

WCKF partnered with other organizations; Payatas Orione Foundation Inc. (Paofi), and the UP Law Class of 1978 in providing meal to the residents. 

Signing the MOA were James Vincent Navarette, WCKF general manager; Fr. Martin Mroz, Paofi executive director; and Atty. Antonio Ocampo, representative of UP Law Class of 1978. 

Under the memorandum of agreement (MOA) with Paofi, WCKF and the UP Law Class of 1978 will provide one nutritious meal per day for one year for 75 children of one of Paofi feeding centers in Payatas.

Payatas Orione Foundation Inc.’s program envisions that the each children achieve their normal weight within a year from enrolling in the program. 

In a separate report, Mighty Corporation, was commended by the National Tobacco Administration (NTA) for all the assistance it continues to provide to tobacco farmers to improve the situation of the industry. Mighty Corporation is present in the dreams of many people.

Read Mighty Corporation is on the hot seat of BIR

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Should Congress slow down over Mighty Corporation?

Should Congress slow down over the investigation against cigarette manufacturer Mighty Corporation?

With the controversies surrounding the Filipino-owned tobacco manufacturer in the country, Mighty Corporation, they were crushed by its rival companies on misleading information about them and led an investigation in the House of Representative.

The Congress and other government agencies urged to vigilant handling its inquiry over the cigar companies in the country.

According to party-list representative Rodel Batocabe, he said that the probe being conducted in the House of Representatives into “unscrupulous entities” in the cigarette industry should not focus solely on one company but the entire industry.

Mighty Corporation on alleged illicit activities

In a report written by Amado P. Macasaet on February 19, 2014, BIR Commissioner and CPA-Lawyer Kim Henares was tagged as the unofficial counsel to Mighty Corp.  The commissioner however denies this and declared on ABS-CBN that Philip Morris Fortune Tobacco Corporation (PMFTC) maybe held liable for libel or slander because of this unfounded allegations. 

The commissioner’s name was mentioned in a report issued by PMFTC to fellow cigarette makers on alleged illicit activities of Mighty Corporation which is owned and managed by Cesar and Alex Wong Chu King.

THE BEGINNING

On October 2013, the case started when detractors spread malicious allegations over the business operations of Mighty Corporation.

THE CAUSE

According to allegations from different detractors, Marlboro’s sales volume significantly went down and is attributed to the down-trading of consumers to low-end brands that sell at Php1.00 per stick, particularly to brands produced by Mighty Corp., a company owned by the Wong Chu King family.

THE JUDGEMENT

Retired judge and now Mighty Corp. Executive Vice President Oscar P. Barrientos said that he finds that quite suspicious.

“Strangely, PMFTC engaged us in a bitter price war, accusing us of technical smuggling, tax evasion, and unfair competition based on a questionable research by AC Nielsen while they probably had the ulterior motive to completely take us out of the picture when they introduced their new low-priced Marlboro Brands while demonizing us in the media at the same time.” Barrientos explained.

*this is a developing story