Reinventing a century of legacy: Aboitiz Group accelerates Great Transformation into a Techglomerate
With a legacy spanning over a century, the Aboitiz Group is turning its legacy into a mission to become the Philippines’ first techglomerate. At the center of this evolution is Aboitiz Equity Ventures, Inc. (AEV) — the Group’s strategic portfolio manager responsible for orchestrating transformation across the ecosystem. From its Cebu roots in abaca and shipping, the Group has grown into one of the country’s most diversified conglomerates, and AEV now leads the next phase: shaping a technology-enabled, sustainability-driven organization ready for the digital economy.
AEV drives value creation by financing innovation, enabling synergy among business units, strengthening governance, and steering long-term investments toward tech-powered and socially inclusive growth. Its role is to ensure that transformation is enterprise-wide — aligning platforms, data, talent, and stakeholder priorities so that progress in one area accelerates progress across all.
“The Great Transformation is about turning a century of legacy into a techglomerate built for the future,” said Sabin Aboitiz, President and CEO of the Aboitiz Group. “It is how we ensure that Aboitiz continues to grow with purpose, scale with intelligence, and lead with innovation in the decades ahead.”
In 2025, this shift moves from planning to scaling as AEV and its companies deploy innovations reshaping how Filipinos access energy, mobility, housing, food, and financial services — advancing beyond a traditional conglomerate toward an integrated techglomerate that delivers meaningful impact for communities and the nation.
AboitizPower: Smarter, Resilient Energy
AboitizPower is deeply embedding AI across its renewable and thermal assets to strengthen forecasting, optimize plant performance, and enable predictive maintenance. This includes Project Arkanghel, which scales AI deployment across thermal facilities to sharpen operational efficiency, strengthen emissions monitoring, and improve overall system reliability. By infusing advanced analytics into legacy assets, AboitizPower is converting traditional baseload capacity into a smarter, more resilient power platform.
UnionBank: Platform Expansion and Embedded Finance
UnionBank’s transformation is powered by platform expansion, embedded finance, and AI-driven analytics. Following the acquisition of Citibank’s consumer operations, the bank rapidly consolidated systems and scaled its digital services. Through embedded financing with retail partners, UnionBank accelerated credit card and consumer loan growth, reaching hundreds of thousands of new customers with same-as-cash installment offerings. A significant share of new customer acquisition now comes through digital partner ecosystems at a lower cost than traditional channels. The bank’s use of cloud-based generative AI analytics further accelerates decision-making and tightens risk management, deepening financial inclusion for digital-first Filipinos.
Aboitiz InfraCapital (AIC): Connected Ecosystems
AIC’s transformation is visible in how communities move and transact. At LIMA Estate, the launch of RED Pass signals a shift toward an integrated, cashless, and connected estate experience. This all-in-one platform enables a single tap for electric vehicle transport, access to facilities, and seamless payments across estate services, while rewarding daily activities with redeemable digital incentives. AIC is also reshaping connectivity at the Mactan Cebu International Airport (MCIA) through air-to-air and air-to-sea mobility programs and future-ready facilitation centers for overseas Filipino workers.
Aboitiz Land: Reinventing Residential Development
Aboitiz Land’s Great Transformation is unfolding through the reinvention of residential development within industrial growth corridors. In synergy with AIC, projects like The Villages at LIMA Estate position AboitizLand as a leading residential solutions provider within fully integrated industrial ecosystems, supporting work, commerce, and community life. Advanced precast concrete technology is being used to accelerate build cycles while enhancing structural durability and energy efficiency.
Aboitiz Foods: Nourishing the Future
The launch of Aboitiz Foods as a unified corporate brand marked a defining milestone, reimagining food systems through technology, innovation, and scale. Employee-driven innovation is activated through a breakthrough idea platform. Cloud computing infrastructure is now embedded directly into factory operations, enabling real-time data processing for stronger production efficiency and accelerated regional expansion. Internally developed digital tools and AI-enabled learning platforms are modernizing critical processes and elevating workforce capability across the network.
Aboitiz Construction: Building Infrastructure and Human Capital
Aboitiz Construction continues to expand its national footprint across major industrial and infrastructure projects, including airports and economic estates. Beyond physical infrastructure, the company invests in human capital through its Skills Training Towards Employment Program. This initiative provides industry-certified training to underserved Filipinos, including persons deprived of liberty, aligning skills with real project demand and strengthening the country’s skilled labor force while driving inclusive growth.
People: The driving force behind the Great Transformation
What ultimately distinguishes Aboitiz’s Great Transformation into a techglomerate is the depth of alignment and synergy across its people, platforms, and capabilities. Across the Group, teams are sharing not only capital and technology, but also talent, data, and a unified commitment to execution. Energy efficiency insights inform industrial estate development, digital finance expands ecosystem participation, cloud innovation enhances food production, and mobility infrastructure advances community growth – each reinforcing the other.
Guided by AEV’s portfolio leadership, these interconnected efforts reinforce one another, demonstrating that the strength of the techglomerate is anchored not only in systems and technology but in the synergy and collective commitment of its people to deliver sustained, enterprise-wide impact.
As the Philippines charts its way forward, Aboitiz continues to evolve alongside the nation as a techglomerate that integrates scale with intelligence, industry with innovation, and legacy with the people-powered synergy shaping the future of growth.
