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Balkrishna
Acharya Balkrishna (आचार्य बालकृष्ण), born 1972, is an India-based Ayurveda scholar and businessman who co-founded Patanjali Ayurved with Swami Ramdev, leads it as managing director, chairs Patanjali Foods, and heads Patanjali Yogpeeth Trust and University of Patanjali.
Ben Cohen (businessman)
Ben Cohen (born 1951, Brooklyn, New York) is an American businessman who co-founded Ben & Jerry's ice cream with Jerry Greenfield in 1978 in Burlington, Vermont, ran it as CEO until 1994, and now campaigns for its independence.
Billy Carter
Billy Carter (William Alton Carter, 1937-1988), Jimmy Carter's younger brother, Plains, Georgia gas station owner and peanut businessman; Billy Beer promoter; Libyan-agent "Billygate" figure cleared of influencing policy.
C. W. Post
C. W. Post (1854–1914), American cereal manufacturer, founded the Postum Cereal Company in Battle Creek, Michigan, and created Postum, Grape-Nuts, and Post Toasties; also known for health-claim advertising, open-shop activism, and founding Post City, Texas.
Caleb Bradham
Caleb Davis Bradham (1867-1934), New Bern, North Carolina pharmacist, invented Pepsi-Cola as "Brad's Drink" (1893), renamed it in 1898, founded the Pepsi-Cola Company in 1902, and lost it to 1923 sugar-price bankruptcy.
Cargill family
The Cargill family, also known as the Cargill-MacMillan family, is the American dynasty that has owned and controlled Cargill Inc., the Minneapolis food and agriculture company, since 1865.
Chaleo Yoovidhya
Chaleo Yoovidhya was a Thai businessman who created the energy drink Krating Daeng in 1976 and in 1984 partnered with Dietrich Mateschitz to found Red Bull GmbH.
Chalerm Yoovidhya
Chalerm Yoovidhya (เฉลิม อยู่วิทยา), Thai businessman born 1950, eldest son of Red Bull co-founder Chaleo Yoovidhya; head of the family holding 51% of Red Bull GmbH, founder of Siam Winery, Thailand's richest per Forbes, and transferred his 2% stake to a Geneva trust in 2025.
Charles Louis Fleischmann
Charles Louis Fleischmann (1834 or 1835–1897), Hungarian-American yeast manufacturer, founded Fleischmann Yeast Company in Cincinnati in 1868 with brother Maximilian and James Gaff, introduced compressed yeast to America, promoted it at the 1876 Centennial Exposition, and built the world's largest yeast plant in Peekskill.
Daniel Lubetzky
Daniel Lubetzky (born 1968, Mexico City) is the Mexican-American founder of KIND Snacks, sold to Mars, a Shark Tank investor since 2024, and founder of PeaceWorks, OneVoice, Camino Partners, and the Builders Movement.
Dave Dahl (entrepreneur)
Dave Dahl (born 1963) is the American co-founder of Dave's Killer Bread, launched at Portland Farmers Market in 2005 after his 15 years in prison; sold to Flowers Foods for $275 million in 2015.
Dieter Schwarz
Dieter Schwarz (born 1939, Heilbronn) is a German entrepreneur who built Lidl & Schwarz into the Schwarz Group, parent of the Lidl discount stores and Kaufland hypermarkets.
Dietrich Mateschitz
Dietrich Mateschitz (full name Dietrich Markwart Eberhart Mateschitz; 1944–2022) was an Austrian entrepreneur who co-founded Red Bull, launched the energy drink category in 1987, and owned Formula 1 and football teams.
Dylan Lauren
Dylan Lauren (born 1974) is an American entrepreneur, daughter of Ralph Lauren, and founder and CEO of Dylan's Candy Bar, the candy retail chain opened in New York City in October 2001 with Jeff Rubin.
Ettore Boiardi
Ettore (Hector) Boiardi, the real Chef Boyardee, was a Piacenza-born chef who headed the Plaza Hotel kitchen, opened Cleveland's Il Giardino d'Italia, and founded the Chef Boy-ar-dee canned Italian food company, sold in 1946 for $6 million.
Forrest Mars Sr.
Forrest Edward Mars Sr. was an American confectionery businessman who created M&M's in 1940 and built Mars, Incorporated into one of the world's largest candy companies.
Franklin Clarence Mars
Franklin Clarence Mars (1883–1934), American candy maker and founder of Mars, Incorporated; created the Milky Way bar in Minneapolis in 1923, moved to Chicago in 1929, and introduced Snickers in 1930.
Galen Weston
Galen Weston (W. Galen Weston, 1940–2021), British-Canadian retailer who turned Loblaw into Canada's largest grocery chain, led George Weston Limited until 2016, built Selfridges, Brown Thomas, and Holt Renfrew holdings, and founded the Weston Brain Institute; his son Galen G. Weston now leads the group.
Galen Weston Jr.
Galen Weston Jr. (Willard Galen Garfield Weston, born 1972) is the fourth-generation Canadian chairman and CEO of George Weston Limited and chairman of Loblaw, known for Choice Properties, the 2023 grocery price hearings, and the bread price-fixing settlement.
Giovanni Ferrero
Giovanni Ferrero (born 1964), Italian billionaire businessman and novelist, President of Ferrero International S.A., maker of Nutella, Kinder, and Tic Tac; co-CEO from 1997, Executive Chairman from 2017, led acquisitions including Nestlé US confectionery and WK Kellogg.
Groupe Artémis
Groupe Artémis, the Pinault family's private investment holding founded in 1992 by François Pinault; owns 42.3% of Kering, plus Christie's, CAA, Château Latour, Ponant, Le Point, and the Pinault Collection.
Hamdi Ulukaya
Hamdi Ulukaya (born 1972) is a Turkish-American entrepreneur, founder and CEO of Chobani, America's No. 1 Greek yogurt brand, and founder of the Tent Partnership for Refugees; he bought a shuttered Kraft plant in New Berlin, New York in 2005 with an SBA loan.
Henri Nestlé
Henri Nestlé (Heinrich Nestle, 1814–1890), German-born Swiss pharmacist and entrepreneur in Vevey, founded Nestlé; his 1867 Farine Lactée infant cereal, gold-medaled in Paris, sold 1.1 million packages by 1875 before he sold the firm.
Indra Nooyi (இந்திரா நூயி)
Indra Nooyi (இந்திரா நூயி), born 1955 in Madras, is the Indian-American former Chairman and CEO of PepsiCo (2006-2018), architect of Performance with Purpose, later an Amazon director and author of My Life in Full.
Jacqueline Mars
Jacqueline Badger Mars (born 1939) is an American heiress holding an estimated one-third of Mars, Incorporated, granddaughter of founder Frank C. Mars; retired Mars executive, arts, education, and equestrian philanthropist.
James Quincey
James Quincey is a British business executive who served as chief executive of The Coca-Cola Company from 2017 until March 31, 2026, and then became its Executive Chairman.
Janine Allis
Janine Allis (born 1965) is an Australian entrepreneur who co-founded Boost Juice in 2000 and Retail Zoo in 2007, directs Kogan.com, joined Sea Shepherd Australia's board, and appeared on Shark Tank, Australian Survivor, and Food Stars.
Jerry Baldwin
Jerry Baldwin (born 1942) is an American specialty-coffee entrepreneur who co-founded and led Starbucks as president from 1971 to 1987, then bought and ran Peet's Coffee until 2001.
Joe Coulombe
Joe Coulombe (Joseph Hardin Coulombe, 1930–2020), American retailer who founded Trader Joe's in Pasadena in 1967 after running Pronto Markets; sold the chain to Aldi's Theo Albrecht in 1979 and pioneered its all-private-label model.
John Cadbury
John Cadbury (1801–1889) was an English Quaker grocer and tea dealer who founded the cocoa business that became Cadbury, opening his first Birmingham shop in 1824.