Philippines’ richest in 2025 revealed

National

SEVERAL of the country’s ultrarich got even richer.

This was showed in the latest Forbes' list of the 50 richest Filipinos with the top five richest individuals keeping their positions from 2024.

Remaining as the richest are the Sy siblings, heirs to the SM group, followed by Enrique Razon Jr., Manuel Villar, Ramon Ang and Isidro Consunji and siblings.

The list also showed notable climbers with the Que Azcona family, owners of drugstore chain Mercury Drug, rising to 6th place in 2025 with a net worth of $3.6 billion (P205.7 billion). In 2024, the family patriarch Vivian Que Azcona was ranked 14th with $1.7 billion (P97.1 billion), a report by Philstar said.

The Zobel de Ayala family climbed to 7th place this year, with a net worth of $3.4 billion (P193.9 billion), up from $2.6 billion (P148.3 billion) in 2024.

Also moving up were the Ty siblings, owners of Metrobank, who are now at 11th place with $2.8 billion (P159.7 billion). They were at 12th spot last year with $1.85 billion (P105.5 billion).

Century Pacific Foods’ Po family climbed from 15th to 13th place with a net worth of $1.9 billion.

Behind a 74% increase in their net worth, couple Dennis Anthony and Maria Grace Uy of Convege ICT rose from 19th to 16th with net worth of $1.6 billion.

Breaking into Top 20 was DigiPlus tycoon Eusebio Tanco, who placed 18th place.

New entrants in the Top 50 were Philippe Jones Lhuillier and Mariano Martinez Jr., who ranked 48th and 49th, respectively.(MyTVCebu)