Forbes Asia, in its August 2025 issue, cited A. Soriano Corporation (Anscor), with sales of $226 million, as one of the companies included in its “Best Under a Billion” list. The annual roster highlights 200 publicly traded companies in the Asia Pacific region with less than $1 billion in revenue and with consistent top-and bottom-line growth.
According to Forbes, the list features companies with a track record of long-term sustainable performance across variety of metrics. It showcases businesses that remained resilient and even thrived over the past year. Companies were selected from more than 19,000 publicly traded companies based on measures such as debt, sales and earnings per share growth and five-year average return on equity. Forbes excluded companies with serious governance issues, questionable accounting practices, environmental concerns, management problems or legal troubles.
Alongside Anscor, four other companies from the Philippines were named to the list, namely, Apex Mining ($254 million), Converge ICT Solutions, Inc. ($709 million), Figaro Culinary Group ($97 million), and Philippine Bank of Communications ($195 million).