Manila Electric Company

Meralco is the largest electric distribution utility in the Philippines. Established in 1903 as Manila Electric Railroad and Light Company to provide electric light and power and an electric street railway system to Manila and its suburbs. The facilities that Meralco built to provide these two services represented for many years the largest single investment of American private capital and know-how in the whole of East Asia. For a little more than four decades, Meralco provided Manilans their first modern mass public transportation system with electric streetcars which in the twenties were supplemented by busses. Meralco's mission is to provide their customers the best value in energy, products and services and their Vision is to be a world-class company and the service provider of choice.

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