{"id":123922,"date":"2017-10-15T03:02:08","date_gmt":"2017-10-15T07:02:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=123922"},"modified":"2017-10-15T03:02:08","modified_gmt":"2017-10-15T07:02:08","slug":"rfm-net-income-up-20-to-p221m-in-q3-17","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2017\/10\/15\/rfm-net-income-up-20-to-p221m-in-q3-17\/","title":{"rendered":"RFM net income up 20% to P221M in Q3 &#8217;17"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_123923\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-123923\" style=\"width: 316px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/RFM-Corp.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-123923\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/RFM-Corp.jpg\" alt=\"Net income of listed food and beverage firm RFM Corp. rose to PHP211 million in the 3rd Quarter this year, up 20 percent from net income  in the same period in 2016. (Photo: rfmfoods)\" width=\"316\" height=\"130\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/RFM-Corp.jpg 316w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/RFM-Corp-300x123.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 316px) 100vw, 316px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-123923\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Net income of listed food and beverage firm RFM Corp. rose to PHP211 million in the 3rd Quarter this year, up 20 percent from net income in the same period in 2016. (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.rfmfoods.com\/images\/RFM%20Logo.jpg\">Photo<\/a>: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rfmfoods.com\/Home.aspx\">rfmfoods<\/a>)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>MANILA &#8212; Net income of listed food and beverage firm RFM Corp. rose to PHP211 million in the 3rd Quarter this year, up 20 percent from net income\u00a0 in the same period in 2016.<\/p>\n<p>In a disclosure with the Philippine Stocks Exchange, RFM said revenues, which grew 7 percent to PHP3.16 billion, pushed RFM\u2019s strong net income for Q3 2017.<\/p>\n<p>RFM President and Chief Executive Officer Jose Concepcion III attributed the company\u2019s robust performance from July to September to ice cream sales, with less-than-usual wet weather during the third quarter of the year.<\/p>\n<p>RFM sells ice cream brand such as Selecta, Cornetto, and Magnum, among others, through a joint venture with Unilever.<\/p>\n<p>On the other hand, sales from its pasta brands &#8212; Royal and Fiesta &#8212; as well as from Selecta Milk and Sunkist juice drinks remained flat in Q3 2017.<\/p>\n<p>But RFM expects revenues from these brands to increase by fourth quarter of the year as Christmas selling season kicks off.<\/p>\n<p>Moreover, the company is optimistic to surpass its PHP1.0-billion net income in 2016 by year-end.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MANILA &#8212; Net income of listed food and beverage firm RFM Corp. rose to PHP211 million in the 3rd Quarter &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":123923,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[27845,21167,27844],"class_list":["post-123922","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","tag-3rd-quarter","tag-net-income","tag-rfm-corp","mauthors-philippine-news-agency"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123922","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=123922"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123922\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/123923"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=123922"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=123922"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=123922"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}