{"id":1674,"date":"2017-12-13T10:55:47","date_gmt":"2017-12-13T10:55:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fxb.com.mt\/?p=1674"},"modified":"2017-12-13T10:55:47","modified_gmt":"2017-12-13T10:55:47","slug":"recalling-1998-francis-xavier-borg-m-o-m","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fxb.com.mt\/2017\/12\/recalling-1998-francis-xavier-borg-m-o-m","title":{"rendered":"Recalling 1998 &#8211; Francis Xavier Borg M.O.M."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On the 13 December 1998, Mr Francis X Borg, Chairman of the FXB Group was awarded the M.O.M.\u00a0 (Member of the National Order of Merit of the Republic of Malta), at a ceremony of investiture held at the Presidential Palace, presided by the President of Malta H.E. Dr Ugo Mifsud Bonnici.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The official biography published on the day read: \u201cA leading Gozitan entrepreneur and a self-made businessman who remains the Chairman of the Group of Companies which bears his initials. During his long and successful career he contributed significantly to the transformation of the production process in the local furniture-making industry from a traditional one to a technologically evolved one. The pioneering introduction of modern systems by its companies enhanced significantly the prestige of the F.X.B. group. It also led to the conferment on the Group of the \u2018Award of Achievement in Industry\u2019 and to the penetration of highly competitive export markets to the benefit also of the Maltese Economy.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>On this 19<sup>th<\/sup> anniversary of the day, this website would like to refresh the memory of this occasion and in this way celebrate the life of the Group\u2019s founder .<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1675 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/www.fxb.com.mt\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/Booklet-Copy-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"445\" height=\"640\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.fxb.com.mt\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/Booklet-Copy-1.jpg 445w, https:\/\/www.fxb.com.mt\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/Booklet-Copy-1-209x300.jpg 209w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 445px) 100vw, 445px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1662\" src=\"http:\/\/www.fxb.com.mt\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/President.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"883\" height=\"570\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.fxb.com.mt\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/President.jpg 883w, https:\/\/www.fxb.com.mt\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/President-300x194.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.fxb.com.mt\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/President-768x496.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 883px) 100vw, 883px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On the 13 December 1998, Mr Francis X Borg, Chairman of the FXB Group was awarded the M.O.M.\u00a0 (Member of the National Order of Merit of the Republic of Malta), at a ceremony of investiture held at the Presidential Palace, presided by the President of Malta H.E. Dr Ugo Mifsud Bonnici.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":1673,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Recalling 1998 - Francis Xavier Borg M.O.M. - fxb.com.mt<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.fxb.com.mt\/2017\/12\/recalling-1998-francis-xavier-borg-m-o-m\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Recalling 1998 - Francis Xavier Borg M.O.M. - fxb.com.mt\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"On the 13 December 1998, Mr Francis X Borg, Chairman of the FXB Group was awarded the M.O.M.\u00a0 (Member of the National Order of Merit of the Republic of Malta), at a ceremony of investiture held at the Presidential Palace, presided by the President of Malta H.E. 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