Lopez Holdings Corporation (LPZ), formerly Benpres Holdings Corporation, was incorporated in 1993 by the Lopez family to serve as the holding company for investments in major development sectors such as broadcasting and cable; telecommunications; power generation and distribution; and banking. It added to its portfolio, investments in other basic service sectors but has since sold its interest in
banking, toll roads, information technology, property development and health care delivery. Its current interests are in power generation, especially in the development of clean, indigenous and/or renewable energy sources and in multimedia communications, including broadcast, cable and telecom. The Company's subsidiaries are ABS-CBN Corporation, which is focused on digital convergence strategy in cooperation with affiliate Sky Cable Corporation; and First Philippine Holdings Corporation, the parent company of clean and renewable energy firm First Gen Corporation, which in turn controls geothermal energy pioneer Energy Development Corporation. FPH also owns construction firm First Balfour, Inc.; pipeline operator First Philippine Industrial Corporation; property firm Rockwell Land Corporation; investment community First Philippine Industrial Park; and First Philec Corporation, the intermediary holding company for investments in manufacturing.
