Orange is to shed up to 40 jobs in Darlington, in order to transfer some of its mobile phone customer services work to the Philippines. 05-Apr-2011
Royal Bank of Scotland is to sell its operations in Hong Kong, Indonesia, Philippines, Singapore, Taiwan and Vietnam to ANZ of Australia for £325m. 06-Aug-2009
Telecom Service Centres (TSC) is to shed up to 300 jobs at a call centre near Falkirk, after T-Mobile decided to transfer some of the customer services work to the Philippines. 09-Apr-2009
Aegis Group is to acquire the outdoor media-related assets of JKJ Media Services of the Philippines for up to £8m, as well as HYPERmedia of Poland for up to £4.9m and ARTea of France for £2m. 02-Jun-2005
International Power is to acquire a 70% stake in 13 power stations from Edison International, including sites in the UK, Italy, Australia, Thailand, Indonesia and the Philippines. 02-Aug-2004
Prudential is to acquire ING's life insurance business in the Philippines, which includes 17 offices and 100 staff. 19-Jun-2002
Cammell Laird is bidding for a £500m shipbuilding and port modernisation contract in the Philippines, which could lead to the creation of thousands of jobs on the Tyne. 20-Dec-1999
Shell is selling a 45% stake in its $2bn Philippines gas project to Texaco, as part of a strategy to sell off non-core assets. 23-Oct-1999
Blue Circle is acquiring Iligan Cement of the Philippines for £32m, as part of an ongoing expansion in east Asia. 21-Jul-1999
Glaxo Wellcome has won regulatory approval to market Zeffix, its oral treatment for chronic hepatitis B, in the Philippines. 21-Aug-1998
Blue Circle Industries has acquired a further 33% of Republic Cement of the Philippines for £32m, taking its stake to 54%. 18-Aug-1998
Shell has agreed a $1bn global asset swap with Occidental of the US, in which it will gain gas reserves in the Philippines and Malaysia in return for oil assets in Colombia and Yemen. 24-Jul-1998
Caspian Securities, the investment bank, is to reduce its presence in Asia and eastern Europe, including the closure of offices in Poland, Ukraine and the Philippines. 09-May-1998
Blue Circle is looking to spend up to £500m on acquisitions and is particularly interested in expanding its presence in the building materials markets of Malaysia and the Philippines. 31-Mar-1998
Shell is postponing plans to expand its retail business in the Philippines in response to the collapse of the peso and a ruling by the Supreme Court that temporarily prevents it from raising prices. 10-Oct-1997
Aegis, the media buying company, is planning further international expansion via acquisitions in Malaysia, Philippines, Taiwan, Singapore and Thailand. 10-Sep-1997
Balfour Beatty is setting up a joint venture with First Philippine Holdings which will buy Ecco-Asia, the construction and steel fabrication concern based in the Philippines. 21-May-1997
BP is to set up packaged solar systems in villages across the Philippines, having agreed a $30m contract with the government. 26-Mar-1997
Shell is planning a major move into the global power generation market, starting in Namibia and the Philippines, in order to exploit its natural gas and coal assets over the next five years. 17-Jan-1997
Shell has linked up with Occidental Petroleum to offer to convert the Bataan nuclear power station in the Philippines, which was closed due to the possibility of earthquakes, into a 1,200MW gas-fired station. 06-Sep-1996
Blue Circle, the cement group, is looking to expand through acquisition in countries such as Argentina, Vietnam and the Philippines. 06-Jun-1996
ICI has bought Pacific Products, the paint maker from the Philippines for $4m. 02-Sep-1995