Tycoon Manuel Villar tops the 2025 Forbes list of richest Filipinos with a net worth of $17.2 billion, dislodging billionaire Enrique Razon Jr. and cementing his place anew as the country’s wealthiest person.
Tycoon Manuel Villar Jr. is going all-in on his proposed $1 billion casino ventures in southern Metro Manila, dropping plans for a foreign partner and pursuing the business alone despite challenges in the land-based casino industry.
Manuel Villar became the sole Filipino on Forbes Asia’s 2024 Heroes of Philanthropy list, earning recognition for his transformative contributions to education, faith, and community development.
Tycoon Manuel Villar Jr.’s AllDay Marts Inc. has appointed a new top executive after its president resigned following a five-month tenure at the listed supermarket group.
Golden MV Holdings, tycoon Manuel Villar Jr.’s housing and deathcare business rolled into one, briefly surged by 18 percent on Wednesday, adding P256 billion to its market value, before closing at another all-time high.
Tycoon Manuel Villar Jr. is selling nearly 400-hectares of land in Cavite worth about P5.2 billion to his listed company Golden MV Holdings, a developer of cemetery plots and mass housing.
The second trillion-peso company on Philippine Stock Exchange (PSE) is a developer of cemetery plots and mass housing that has long puzzled financial analysts.