Lucio Tan, 70 years old, chairman of Fortune Tabacco, has interests in aviation and banking, $1.6 billion, source—Tobacco.
Henry Sy, 79, heads SM Prime Holdings which operates 18 “supermalls” in the Philippines, $1.4 billion, source—Malls.
Jaime Zobel de Ayala, 70, chairman of the 170 yr-old Ayala Corporation, Philippines’ biggest conglomerates with interests in banking, real estate and telecom, $800 million, source—Diversified.
Eduardo Cojuangco, 69, chairman of San Miguel Corporation, $380 million, source—Food & Beverage.
George Ty, 71, founded Metrobank in 1962, grew it into one of the nations’ largest banks, in part by lending to its ethnic Chinese, $360 million, source—Banking.
John Gokongwei, 77, has holdings in telecom, financial services, petrochemicals, power generation, even hog farming, $330 million, source—Diversified.
Tony Tan Caktiong, 53, started in 1975 with a two-branch ice dream parlor before moving into hot food. Today his Jollibee group has more than 1,000 fast food outlets in several countries; it has 65% market share in the Philippines, well ahead of McDonald’s which once tried to buy it out; recently bought Yonghe King, a fast food chain in China; $270 million, source—Restaurants.