5 richest Filipino billionaires of combined prosperity by $ 7.6 billion increases

Manuel Villar, chairman of the real estate developer Vista Land & Lifescapes

Manuel Villar, chairman of Vista Land & Lifescapes. Photo by Manuel Villars website

Immobilienmagnat Manuel Villar, 75, is the richest among the Filipino billionaires presented.

Its business empire extends over several sectors, although its largest company remains golden MV -Holda. And focuses on the focus on mass apartment developments and memorial parks.

Villar's portfolio also includes a number of publicly listed companies: real estate giants Vista Land & Lifescapes, retail chains such as Vista Malls, Allhome and All -day Marts as well as real estate investments VISTAREIT and premiere Island Power Reit.

Last September, Golden MV bought several companies that together had 366 hectares of Prime Real Estate in Villar City, a 3,500 hectare community south of Manila, which provides for Villar as the highlight of his legacy, Philstar reported.

The company then received the approval of the shareholders in December to change their corporate chart and their name in Villar Land Holdings Corp. to change.

According to Forbes, Villar's assets were estimated at 17.2 billion US dollars from March 7 after the 11 billion US dollars.

Enrique Razon Jr., Chairman of Port Operator International Container Terminal Services

Enrique Razon JR, Chairman of the Bloomberry Resorts Corporation, smiles during a Reuters interview in his office in Port Area, Metro Manila, December 17, 2012. Photo by Reuters

Enrique Razon Jr., 65, Chair of International Container Terminal Services, the largest port operator in the country, which was founded in 1916 by his grandfather.

In 2024, the company acted more than 13 million equivalent freight units in 2024 on its global network of 32 terminals in 19 countries. There were 517 million US dollars in 2024 to expand and modernize ports, including Mexico and Brazil, and this year has planned a record value for 580 million US dollars for further expansion.

Razon's business interests go beyond shipping and logistics. He also has controlling operations in Bloomberry Resorts and Prime Infrastructure Capital, which manages assets in water and energy.

His net assets rose by 900 million US dollars from the previous year to $ 10.9 billion on March 7.

Ramon Ang, Chairman and CEO of Konglomerat San Miguel

Ramon Ang, chairman and CEO of the San Miguel Corporation. Photo with the kind permission of the World Economic Forum

Ramon Ang's assets, 71, comes from the San Miguel Corporation, one of the oldest conglomerates in the Philippines.

The company, founded in 1890 as a brewery, has since turned into a power package with a variety of interests about food and drinks, packaging, fuel and oil, energy and infrastructure. One of his subsidiaries, Petron, runs the country's only oil refinerie.

The core win of San Miguel, without not repeating objects, rose by 22% to $ 52.3 billion ($ 929 million) last year, which, according to the Philippine Daily Inquirer, was operated by strong sales in most business areas of 1.6 trillion PHP.

The prosperity of Ang on March 7 was 3.7 billion US dollars, compared to $ 3.5 billion in the previous year.

Lucio Tan, founder and chairman of the Holding Company LT Group

Lucio Tan, chairman of the LT Group. Photo with the kind permission of the company

The 90 -year -old Lucio Tan started his business trip in 1982 with the start of the Asia Brewery, which at that time was the main competitor of San Miguel in the local brewing industry.

Later he founded the LT Group, brought Asia Brewery under his roof and continuously expanded to tobacco, alcohol, drinks, banking and real estate.

In 2024, the LT Group recorded an increase in sales from 12% to 129 billion PHP, which is due to most core transactions to a strong performance.

Tan's assets have increased to 3 billion US dollars from March 7, which was an increase of 20% compared to the previous year.

Henry Sy Jr., Deputy Chairman of Konglomerat SM Investments

Henry Sy Jr., Chairman of the Philippines shopping center, SM Prime, visited a shareholder of the shareholders in Manila on April 14, 2015. Photo by AFP

The 71 -year -old Henry Sy Jr. is the eldest son and one of the six children of the late billionaire Henry Sy Sr., who founded and built SM investments in one of the largest conglomerate of the Philippines.

What started as a shoe store in 1958 has since developed into a power pack that comprises real estate developer SM Prime Holdings, the banking giant -Bo Unibank and investments in geothermal energy, logistics and shipping. The group achieved a net profit of 82.6 billion PHP last year, compared to 7%compared to 2023.

The SM Investments shares decreased by 15% in the first two months of this year and destroyed the assets of the six Sy siblings, which inherited their father's business after his death in 2019.

The assets of Henry Jr. fell from March 7 from $ 2.5 billion to $ 2.3 billion in 2024.

His siblings occupied the next five places in the rank with individual net assets of $ 1.7 to $ 2.2 billion, which contradicts a decline of 15.4 to 20.8%.