BUSINESS
GROUP
ATN GROUP
OF COMPANIES
ATN
Holdings, Inc.
ATN
Holdings, Inc. (ATN), the parent company of Transpacific, is a company
listed in the Philippine Stock Exchange. Through its satellite, terrestrial
radio broadcast, and VSAT backbone infrastructure, ATN is using Transpacific
to expand into different platforms covering broadcast media, global
communications, and electronic commerce and services. While each platform
may perform independently, the general direction for the ATN group is
the convergence of the three wireless business areas.
ATN is in the business
of providing goods and services to the general consumer market, with
focus on convenience and maximum value for goods and services purchased.
The open structure of ATN is founded on the philosophy of market-responsiveness,
product championing, extensive R&D and leveraging experience in
areas of IT, banking and finance, real estate, healthcare, and consumer
retailing enterprise management.
ATN has
five value-driven strategic real estate assets and health care companies,
and six high-growth technology businesses. The value-driven assets spawn
the existing and future high-growth businesses that will enable Filipinos
to communicate and access products and services from anywhere in the
country. ATN launched high-growth ventures focusing on each major business
platform of digital communications infrastructure.
ATN has indirect
minority interest in Beacon Diversified Holdings, the holding company
of Sky Vision, Inc., which in turn operates Sky Cable, the most dominant
player in the local cable market. The same is true for Net Curricula,
a company that provides schools with integrated IT/multimedia services
and other technology needs. Investing in these technology firms enables
the ATN Group to understand the different dynamics of these technology
sub-segments, thus accelerating the learning process for Transpacific.
ATN’s
strategic value-driven assets are as follows:
Palladian
Land Development, Inc.
Palladian
is engaged in major land bank and real estate development to include,
among others, (1) a 320-hectare (3.2 million square meters) property
participation in Montalban near SM Shoemart Mall Fairview, and adjacent
to populous Quezon City, (2) a 1.5-hectare Lincoln Plaza near the giant
Robinson Shopping Mall in the regional center of San Fernando, Pampanga,
and (3) a residential apartment complex in Pasig City beside Ever Gotesco
Mall and S&R Price Club. Most of the prime real estate assets of
Palladian are located in Metro Manila and regional centers.
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Summit
One Tower Building and Allied Assets
This
real estate property consists of two buildings situated on prime land
along Shaw Boulevard in Mandaluyong City. The first 48-storey building
comprises 450,000 square feet of office space, while the second 8-storey
building mainly provides 300 car park slots. In support of TBGI operations
at CDC Broadcast Operations Center, the building is registered as a
PEZA enterprise to benefit dozens of strategic IT locators with government
tax incentives and all ATN technology subsidiaries. The Manila executive
office of Transpacific is strategically located at Summit One. Constructed
in four years, the buildings and facilities presently serve as the center
of Transpacific logistics and roll out services as well as corporate
offices and business center for scores of architects, engineers, and
IT specialists.
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Managed
Care Philippines, Inc.
Managed
Care Philippines, Inc. (MCPI) is the primary corporate arm of ATN Holdings
implementing the most integrated and largest outpatient health care
services. MCPI owns majority stake in Ambulatory Health Care Institute
Inc. (AHCII), popularly known as Clinica Manila in MegaMall, Ortigas
Center, with 150 doctors serving 80,000 clients. This original Clinica
Manila branch is equipped with CT scan imaging facility, laboratory,
and surgery rooms and enjoys number one rating in aesthetic and reconstructive
surgery. MCPI owns 100% of Clinica Manila in Ayala, Makati, which features
20 consultation rooms, dental clinic, laboratory, derma clinic, X-ray
machine, and other diagnostic equipment, which are highly accessible
to four million people in the Central Business District area.
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Hambrecht
& Quist Philippine Ventures 2, Inc.
ATN
invested P40 million or 9.7% of P412 million total initial capital of
H&Q PV2. The investments of this venture capital fund in Beacon
Diversified, Skycable, Headway and Net Curricula created a potent critical
mass, paving the way for the acquisition of Transpacific. This venture
fund has performed so well that to date, ATN has received P50 million
distributed cash dividends.
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CBCP
World Corporation
CBCP
World is an initiative of the Catholic Bishops Conference of the Philippines
Communications Development Foundation. In collaboration with TBGI, CBCP
World offers itself to the service of the Catholic Church in the Philippines.
With the mission of proclaiming the Gospel through the cyberspace and
the expertise of satellite system engineers and programmers, CBCP world
guarantees a reliable and cost-effective broadband platform using VSAT
technology to serve its market niche in the Catholic community.
The formation of
CBCP World has significantly enhanced the viability of TBGI as a data
broadcasting company. The operation of CBCP World forms the core business
with which TBGI has become more competitive in serving the needs of
its other customers for financial services, communications, and entertainment.
These non-church customers include government and multi-lateral agencies
and the private sector in general.
Transpacific
considers the relationship a major accomplishment of market penetration
of its broadcasting services, given the very large population base of
the Catholic community, and the huge infrastructure of the Catholic
Church. All over the country, the Catholic Church controls 79 dioceses,
1,492 schools, 500 hospitals, and frequency spectrum for a number of
TV channels and 52 radio channels.
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Unipage
Management, Inc.
Unipage
Management, Inc. (UMI), a company registered under the laws of the Republic
of the Philippines on May 27, 1996, is a significant shareholder of
Transpacific. The registered purpose of the corporation is to provide
business solutions, enterprise management, and IT systems development
products and services. UMI specializes as integrator of various technologies,
spearheading the technical compatibility and management of the ATN Convergent
Technologies Network.
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Avion
Integrated Media, Inc.
Avion
is a cable and television program distributor and content provider with
linkages to 450 cable television operators nationwide. Its present business
activities include cable television programming, and marketing and distribution
of local and international television programs. Revenues from this company
primarily come from Avion’s primetime commercial advertisements
and block time infomercials.
The company
is placing itself as the main content provider for ATN’s radio
and cable television distribution, forming part of the Convergent Technologies
Network program. Avion’s contribution to Convergent Technologies
Network is its content service to over 450 cable TV operators and 52
radio stations across the Philippine archipelago.
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Datacast
Technology Corporation
Datacast
Technology Corporation (Datacast) is involved in the multicasting and
captive advertising operations. Through technology partnership with
foreign niche market players, Datacast will set up television panels
in LRT station, MRT stations, malls, parks, etc. to simulcast advertisements,
news and other multimedia content.
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