CREATES INITIALLY 700 OF THE 3,000 JOBS FOR PANGASINAN
BY JHONA LYN C.ABULENCIA and MORTZ C. ORTIGOZA
SAN FABIAN, Pangasinan – Giant San Miguel Corporation (SMC) will start the construction of its multi-billion peso ago-industrial and tourism industry middle of this year that will provide an initial of 700 jobs out of the up to the 3,000 targeted employees in the Forth Congressional District of Pangasinan.
Mayor Constante Agbayani told this newspaper that the mammoth projects will start its construction of a feed mill first at the 300 to 500 hectares lands owned by SMC in Barangay Bolasi here.
“It’s a $1 Billion (P49 Billion) project,” he said.
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ECONOMICS and Political “High Priests” in the Fourth Congressional District of Pangasinan have collaborated to create a gargantuan employment juggernaut after giant San Miguel Corporation decided to build a multi-billion peso agro-industrial and tourism industry middle of this year. It will provide an initial of 700 jobs out of the up to the 3,000 targeted employement mostly hired from the jobless in the four towns one city’s District. These political and economics brass who interceded for the creation of the job behemoth are San Fabian Mayor Constante “Danny” Agbayani (top photo clockwise), President, and Chief Operating Officer Ramon Ang, and District Congressman Christopher “Toff” de Venecia.
Former
Speaker Joe de Venecia, the father of the District Representative
Christopher de Venecia, said
that business
tycoon Ramon Ang, president, and chief operating officer of San
Miguel Corporation told him that SMC will be building a pier,
cement
grinding plant, Jetty and Petron Tanks, LPG Farm as well as Grains
Terminal, feed
mill, poultry processing plant, a slaughterhouse, restaurants for
tourists and residents, a hotel and a recreation cum commercial
center here.
Agbayani cited that the giant corporation will be paying its business and real property taxes by P40 million yearly to the public coffer here that will commence within three years of the corporation’s full operation.
“That P40 million is huge as it would become the goose that lays the golden egg for the coastal town just like the P200 million and P29 million business and real properties taxes the towns of Sual and Sta. Barbara, respectively, get from Team Sual Corporation (TSC) and San Miguel Corporation (SMC) and Ginebra San Miguel and RC Cola annually,” a political kibitzer of this newspaper opined upon hearing the interview by its writer with Mayor Agbayani in his office here.
SMC is a multinational publicly listed conglomerate holdings and the Philippines' largest corporation in terms of revenue, with thousands of employees in over 100 major facilities throughout the Asia-Pacific region. It finally decided to build its second brewery in northern Luzon.
Endowed with its mountainous area, a beautiful beach, and proximate to a national high way, SMC has added a comparative advantage based on the strategical location of this rustic town.
In the July 18, 2019 ground breaking ceremony attended by the Mayor, officials of this town and SMC in Barangay Bolasi Director and the President of San Miguel Brewery Inc. Roberto Huang declared that the completion of the agro-industrial and tourism industry in less than two years will allow us to move SMC’s products to our Northern Luzon customers at a more efficient pace.
The pandemic’s Corona Virus Disease-19 seems to delay the target date by Huang as the Mayor here recently said that construction of one of its projects will start middle of this year.
“We are not just a company of expert brewers and producers of quality products and services but we are your dependable partner towards progress”.
He said the new brewery here will have a full capacity of two million hectoliters.
“This move signifies that we at SMB believe that as our business grows so is our contribution to countryside development, and in this case, the development of the municipality of San Fabian,” Huang narrated.
Congressman de Venecia exhorted his constituents to submit their applications at his congressional office at 271 AB Fernandez Ave, Downtown District, Dagupan City (near Chowking) because the SMC has no office yet in Pangasinan to accept the intention of the job seekers.
Meanwhile, Agbayani told this newspaper that the access highway SMC President and CEO Ang requested to connect the mountainous part of this first class town to the Tarlac-Pangasinan-La Union Express Highway (TPLEX) in the Fifth Congressional District or Eastern Pangasinan will be classified by the Sangguniang Bayan (Legislative Body) as an industrial and agricultural zone.
The urgent approval of the northern barangays here will buttress the multiplier effects created by the SMC plant in Brgy. Bolasi for the employment of the people.
Agbayani said that Congressman de Venecia lobbied for the funding of this highway in Congress for the Department of Public Works & Highway to construct a road project hat will connect Barangays: Binday, Ambalangan-Dalin, Colisao, Gomot, Inmalog, Bigbiga, and Bolaoen to complement the zone.
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