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AEV is the publicly listed holding company of the Aboitiz Group, with major investments in power, banking and financial services, food and beverages, infrastructure, and real estate. Today, AEV is on a bold transformation journey to become the Philippines’ first Techglomerate—integrating innovation and technology across its businesses to drive long-term value.
Recognized as one of the best-managed companies in the Philippines and the ASEAN region, AEV is consistently cited for its good corporate governance, corporate social responsibility, and commitment to sustainability. With five generations of Aboitiz Group business success behind it, AEV continues to drive change for a better world by advancing business and communities.
ACO traces its roots to the late 1800s, when Paulino Aboitiz established an abaca trading and general merchandise business in Ormoc, Leyte. The enterprise later expanded into inter-island shipping across the Visayas and was formally incorporated in 1920. Today, ACO serves as the private holding company of the Aboitiz family. Under the leadership of Aboitiz Group patriarch Don Ramon Aboitiz, the company laid a strong foundation for disciplined growth and expansion. From its beginnings as a small mercantile operation, ACO evolved into a diversified business group with interests across key industries that contribute to nation-building.Now spanning five generations of family and professional leadership, the Aboitiz Group’s growth reflects an enduring commitment to trust, integrity, fairness, and quality. As it looks ahead to the next century, its path remains guided by a clear purpose and brand promise: to drive change for a better world by advancing business and communities.
The Aboitiz Group began as a simple hemp trading business in Ormoc, Leyte in Central Philippines in the late 1800s. Its success and growth opened opportunities for Aboitiz & Company, Inc. (ACO) to eventually enter the transport business. In 1907, the company bought its first vessel, the Picket, since it made good business sense to buy a ship to transport its own merchandise across the islands.
The hemp trade continued to flourish and in 1920, ACO was formally incorporated. By then, the company had become one of the leading Cebu-based ship owners and also had a thriving commercial and trading business.
In the next several decades, it entered into many diversified businesses: ice plants, sardine canning, sugar milling, power generation and distribution, industrial gas production, banking, insurance brokerage, and flour milling, just to name a few.
In 1994, to fund the Group’s growth opportunities, ACO listed Aboitiz Equity Ventures, Inc. (AEV) on the Philippine Stock Exchange (PSE) as the holding company for its power, banking, food and transport businesses.
In 2007, AEV listed its wholly owned subsidiary Aboitiz Power Corporation at the PSE to provide the company with the financial flexibility to take advantage of many opportunities for growth in the local power sector.
Today, together with joint ventures and alliances with domestic and foreign partners, the Aboitiz Group’s investments are focused on power generation and distribution, banking and financial services, food, infrastructure, land development, construction, and shipbuilding.
Alongside its business operations, the Group fulfills its commitment to achieve a sustainable balance of People, Planet and Profit, with its corporate social responsibility and sustainability initiatives.
