Robinsons Retail Holdings, Inc.
Public
Foundation1980 (age 46) (as Robinsons Department Store)
FounderJohn L. Gokongwei, Jr.
Location110 Eulogio Rodriguez Jr. Avenue, Quezon City
Location countryPhilippines
Area servedPhilippines
Num locations (2024)
  • 761 food segment stores
  • 1,133 drugstores (excluding 2,115 franchised The Generics Pharmacy stores)
  • 50 department stores
  • 227 DIY stores
  • 282 specialty stores (appliances and electronics, toy stores, mass merchandise, beauty, pet retail, and lifestyle sneaker)

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IndustryRetail
Num employees20,535 (2021)[2]
DivisionsAppliances and electronics · Beauty · Convenience stores · Department stores · DIY and hardware · Drugstores · E-commerce · Mass merchandise · Pets · Supermarkets · Toys
Revenue₱199.2 billion (2024)[1]
Net income₱10.3 billion (2024)[1]
Assets₱134.234 billion (2021)[2]
Equity₱76.513 billion (2021)[2]
HomepageOfficial website

Robinsons Retail Holdings, Inc., trading as RRHI, is one of the largest multi-format retailers in the Philippines.

History

Founded by Filipino businessman John Gokongwei Jr. in 1980, Robinsons Retail started as Robinsons Department Store in Robinsons Place Manila. It expanded into supermarkets in 1985, DIY in 1994, and convenience stores and specialty stores in 2000.[3]

Robinsons Retail itself was incorporated on February 4, 2002 to serve as a holding company of the Gokongwei Group's retail endeavors.[3][4] It entered the drugstores business in 2012.[3]

Robinsons Retail is listed at the Philippine Stock Exchange starting in 2013.[5]

Robinsons Retail launched a chain of community malls in 2015.[3]

On March 31, 2026, the controlling shareholders publicly disclosed that they intend to make the company privately-held again[6], subject to approvals such as those of at least 2/3rds of the outstanding voting equity, on its annual shareholders' meeting on May 12 as well as that of government authorities such as the Philippine Competition Commission and Securities and Exchange Commission.

It is the second largest retail company in the Philippines based on sales as of 2025, behind SM Retail.[5]

Brands

Department stores and groceries

Robinsons Retail owns various retail outlets including Robinsons Supermarket, Robinsons Easymart, The Marketplace, and Shopwise.[7] Robinsons Retail acquired Rustan Supercenters Inc. in 2018 which manages the Rustan's Supermarket chain.[4]

The company is also the master franchise of the No Brand retail chain of Korean company Emart. No Brand was introduced in the Philippines by Robinsons in 2019. It plans to close all standalone No Brand stores by June 2026.[7]

It partly owns the discount store chain O!Save of HD Retail Holding Pte. Ltd.[8][9]

Convenience store

Robinsons also introduced the Japanese convenience store chain Ministop in the Philippines opening the first outlet in the country in December 2000.[10] After AEON, the Japanese parent company behind Ministop withdrew the brand from the Philippines, all Ministop outlets in the Philippines was converted by Robinsons into Uncle John's.[11][12][13]

Pharmacies

It also owns various pharmacy chains, Southstar Drug, The Generics Pharmacy and Rose Pharmacy. The company acquired those chains in 2012, 2016, and 2020 respectively.[4]

See also

References

  1. ^ "Business Review - Shop, Shop and Away! - RRHI Integrated Report 2024". Robinsons Retail Holdings Inc.. Retrieved June 21, 2025.
  2. ^ "The Greater Goods: Robinsons Retail Holdings, Inc.'s Annual & Sustainability Report 2021". Robinsons Retail Holdings Inc.. Retrieved September 7, 2022.
  3. ^ "Company Information: Robinsons Retail Holdings, Inc.". PSE Edge. Retrieved 28 March 2026.
  4. ^ Dumlao-Abadilla, Doris (1 November 2024). "Robina Gokongwei-Pe: From ‘bodegera’ to retail empire CEO". Philippine Daily Inquirer. Retrieved 28 March 2026.
  5. ^ Sayson, Ian (27 March 2026). "Philippine Gokongwei Family To Buyout Robinsons Retail In Deal Valuing Company At $850 Million". Forbes. Retrieved 28 March 2026.
  6. ^ Abris, Emmanuel John (27 March 2026). "Robinsons Retail mulls over PSE exit as tender offer kicks off". Philippine Daily Inquirer. Retrieved 28 March 2026.
  7. ^ Cordero, Ted (25 March 2026). "Robinsons Retail to close No Brands stores". GMA News. Retrieved 25 March 2026.
  8. ^ Ochave, Revin Mikhael D. (November 22, 2024). "Robinsons Retail plans to boost store count over next 5 years". BusinessWorld. Retrieved April 2, 2025.
  9. ^ Camus, Miguel R. (April 1, 2025). "Gokongwei-backed O!Save doubles 2024 sales to P13.6B as hard discount format gains traction in PH". InsiderPH. Retrieved April 2, 2025.
  10. ^ "Ministop opens 400th store in BGC". ABS-CBN News. 27 February 2014. Retrieved 14 December 2022.
  11. ^ Kono, Shohei & Hosokawa, Kotaro (22 January 2022). "Convenience store chain Ministop pulls out of South Korea and Philippines". Nikkei Asia. Retrieved 14 December 2022.
  12. ^ Gonzales, Iris (25 January 2022). "Gokongwei Group to rebrand Ministop". The Philippine Star. Retrieved 14 December 2022.
  13. ^ Gonzales, Iris (24 September 2022). "Gokongweis rebrand Ministop as Uncle John's". The Philippine Star. Retrieved 14 December 2022.