Philippines Company & Beneficial Ownership Directory
Company register search for 46,485 Philippines companies, plus shareholder, officer and beneficial ownership records sourced directly from official government registries.
Philippines company register data is filed annually on the General Information Sheet (GIS) with the Securities and Exchange Commission under the Revised Corporation Code, publicly requestable and showing directors, officers, and stockholdings. Beneficial ownership now runs through its own channel, HARBOR (Helpful Accessible Repository for Business and Organisation Records), mandatory since 30 January 2026 under SEC Memorandum Circular No. 15 of 2025, applying a 25% general threshold, lowered to 20% for anti-money-laundering-covered persons, and 5% to 10% for holders of listed-company securities. Its access rules are not confirmed in verifiable form, unlike the GIS, which is directly requestable from the SEC.
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Data Coverage
Record counts by data layer for Philippines, as of the last reconciliation.
Analysis
What this data actually tells you about Philippines
The Philippines is one of Southeast Asia’s fastest-growing major economies, though growth cooled through 2025. Full-year 2024 GDP growth was 5.6% year-on-year (Philippine Statistics Authority, January 2025), while full-year 2025 growth slowed to 4.4%, missing the government’s 5.5%-6.5% target (PSA National Accounts releases, 2025-2026). GDP per capita stood at roughly $4,270 in 2025. The national currency is the Philippine peso (PHP). Inflation fell sharply through the period: PSA-reported headline inflation averaged 3.2% in 2024 and eased further to around 1.7% in 2025, with food inflation dropping to about 1.0% from 4.5% a year earlier — well within the Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas’ (BSP) 2%-4% target band. Structurally, the economy rests on services (62.9% of 2024 GDP), a large and globally significant IT-Business Process Management (IT-BPM/BPO) industry, and remittances from overseas Filipino workers (OFWs), one of the largest remittance-receiving flows in the world; industry contributed 29.1% and agriculture, forestry and fishing just 8.0% of 2024 GDP. Electronics and semiconductor assembly-test-and-packaging exports form the backbone of merchandise trade, and a growing construction and infrastructure pipeline (the “Build Better More” program) is a further anchor.
Electronics dominate Philippine exports: SEMI/SEIPI data show electronics exports rose 16.1% to $49.64 billion in 2025 from $42.75 billion in 2024, equivalent to roughly 57-60% of total merchandise exports, while PSA data show semiconductor exports specifically rose 18.7% to $34.62 billion in 2025. China, the United States, Hong Kong, Japan and Germany are the leading export destinations. Remittances remain a structural pillar: cash remittances (the BSP’s narrower measure) hit a record $35.63 billion in 2025, up 3.3% from $34.49 billion in 2024, while the broader “personal remittances” measure reached $39.62 billion in 2025; remittances equaled roughly 7.3% of GDP in 2025, with the United States the single largest source (39.7% of the total), followed by Singapore, Saudi Arabia, Japan, and the UK/UAE. Net FDI inflows, by contrast, weakened: BSP recorded $8.93 billion in net FDI inflows for 2024 (essentially flat versus 2023’s $8.925 billion), before falling 17.1% to $7.791 billion in 2025 — a five-year low, driven by a steep drop in debt-instrument investment. Sino-Philippine tensions over the South China Sea/West Philippine Sea have been a persistent backdrop to this investment picture: repeated Philippine-Chinese coast guard confrontations at Scarborough Shoal and Second Thomas Shoal continued through 2025 and into 2026, and Manila has cancelled some China-funded infrastructure deals amid the friction, even as Philippine trade groups have continued to advocate maintaining commercial ties with China.
The Philippines’ population reached 112,729,484 as of the 2024 Census of Population — proclaimed official by President Marcos in July 2025 — reflecting a slowed annual growth rate of 0.80% since the 2020 census count of 109.04 million. The annual average unemployment rate hit a record low of 3.8% in 2024 before edging up to roughly 4.2% in 2025; poverty incidence fell to a record-low, single-digit 9.7% in 2025 (about 11 million Filipinos), down from 15.5% (17.5 million) in 2023, though some labor groups and the World Bank have flagged the fragility of these gains. Politically, 2024-2026 was dominated by the collapse of the 2022 “UniTeam” alliance between President Ferdinand “Bongbong” Marcos Jr. and Vice President Sara Duterte: relations fractured over 2024, culminating in a December 2024 televised threat by Duterte to have Marcos, his wife, and House Speaker Martin Romualdez assassinated, which triggered impeachment complaints; the House approved impeachment in February 2025, the Senate’s first trial attempt was halted in July 2025 when the Supreme Court ruled the complaint unconstitutional, and a fresh Senate impeachment trial opened July 6, 2026. Separately, former President Rodrigo Duterte was arrested in Manila on March 11, 2025 on an International Criminal Court (ICC) warrant for crimes against humanity tied to alleged extrajudicial killings during the 2011-2019 “war on drugs,” and was flown to the ICC’s custody in The Hague; the ICC’s Pre-Trial Chamber confirmed all charges against Duterte following a confirmation-of-charges hearing held February 23-27, 2026, with trial set to begin November 30, 2026.
Philippines company base, broken down
Charts render from live counts. Where coverage is partial, the excluded population is stated on the chart.
Company size, by disclosed headcount
By number of employees on file. Entities with no disclosed headcount are not counted in any band.
Enterprises by size category
Of 1,246,373 total registered business establishments in the Philippines, 1,241,733 (99.63%) were classified as Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises and about 4,640 (0.37%) as Large Enterprises, per the 2023 List of Establishments (a near-identical 99.63%/0.37% split is reported for 2024 data as well). Source: Philippine Statistics Authority / Department of Trade and Industry, 2023 Philippine MSME Statistics in Brief.
Foreign-controlled entities
5.2% of Philippine firms had at least 10% foreign ownership as of the World Bank/IFC Enterprise Surveys Philippines 2023 country profile (fieldwork April 2023–February 2024, n=1,002 firms), with a breakdown by firm size of 3.4% of small firms, 10.4% of medium firms, and 6.6% of large firms.
Who uses Philippines ownership data
The three checks this page's data is most often run for.
KYB onboarding
Verifying a Philippines counterparty means confirming the beneficial owner behind the entity and evidencing where that answer came from, not just pulling the registered name.
AML and sanctions screening
Sanctions exposure often sits above the operating company, in a holding layer registered elsewhere. Screening the local entity alone will not surface it; screening the resolved ownership chain will.
Supplier and credit risk
Only 47 Philippines entities have digitized accounts on file, so group membership is often a better solvency signal than a standalone balance sheet.
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Frequently Asked Questions
How many registered Philippines businesses does Zavia track?
Zavia holds 46,485 company records for Philippines, of which 46,467 (100%) are currently active on the register.
Can I look up the beneficial owner of a Philippines company?
Philippines company register data is filed annually on the General Information Sheet (GIS) with the Securities and Exchange Commission under the Revised Corporation Code, publicly requestable and showing directors, officers, and stockholdings. Beneficial ownership now runs through its own channel, HARBOR (Helpful Accessible Repository for Business and Organisation Records), mandatory since 30 January 2026 under SEC Memorandum Circular No. 15 of 2025, applying a 25% general threshold, lowered to 20% for anti-money-laundering-covered persons, and 5% to 10% for holders of listed-company securities. Its access rules are not confirmed in verifiable form, unlike the GIS, which is directly requestable from the SEC.
Is shareholder data available for Philippines companies on Zavia?
Yes. Zavia holds 31 shareholder records for Philippines companies, with 65,332 ultimate parent relationships resolved for group-structure and ownership-chain mapping.
Who are the registered directors of Philippines companies, and is that searchable?
Yes. Zavia holds 527 officer and director records for Philippines companies, sourced directly from the same official register as the company's own filing.
Is financial data available for Philippines companies?
Yes. Zavia holds 47 digitized financial reports for Philippines companies, available through Zavia's enriched company data for verified users.
Is there a bulk or API option for Philippines company data?
Yes. Zavia's API connects directly to official government ownership registries across 195 countries and territories, including Philippines, so company registration, shareholder, UBO, officer, and group-structure records can be queried programmatically instead of browsed one page at a time.
Does Zavia have a deeper guide on Philippines company ownership?
Zavia's Philippines beneficial ownership guide covers the register, the UBO threshold, and how to verify a company's ownership chain in more depth than this directory page.