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Abdou Diop
Abdou Diop, also known as Abdou Soulèye Diop, leads Forvis Mazars in Morocco, a Casablanca audit and consulting firm, and sits on its Group Governing Board.
Adanola
Adanola is a Manchester-based activewear and lifestyle brand founded in 2015 by Hyrum Cook and his brother Josh, known for its Ultimate Leggings and neutral-toned sweats.
Adrian Lawrence
Adrian Lawrence, born 1966, is a British chartered accountant and recruitment entrepreneur who founded the London boutique executive search firm Exec Capital and FD Capital.
Agrofert
Agrofert is a Prague-based Czech holding company spanning agriculture, food processing, chemicals, and forestry, founded by Andrej Babiš in 1993 and employing more than 28,000 people.
Ahold
Ahold, formally Koninklijke Ahold N.V., was a Dutch grocery retail group that grew from one Albert Heijn store, founded in 1887, into a global food retailer before its 2003 accounting scandal.
Alberto Balocco
Alberto Balocco (2022) was an Italian food executive, president and CEO of the family confectionery Balocco SpA of Fossano, best known for its panettoni and breakfast biscuits.
Alberto Bauli
Alberto Bauli (1940–2020) was an Italian engineer who for 25 years led the Verona confectionery group Bauli, founded by his father Ruggero, acquiring Motta, Alemagna, and Bistefani.
Alberto Bombassei
Alberto Bombassei, born 1940 in Vicenza, Italy, is an Italian industrialist who joined Brembo in 1961, led the braking-systems maker as chairman from 1993 to 2021, and is now Chairman Emeritus.
Alexander Knauf
Alexander Knauf (born 1974) is a German family-business executive who was Speaker of the General Partners of the Knauf Group, the family-owned building-materials manufacturer, from 2022.
Alexander Reid
Alexander Reid was a Scottish schoolteacher and barley farmer who founded The Macallan distillery at Easter Elchies, Moray, in 1824, running it until his death in 1847.
Alfred Eugen Ritter
Alfred Eugen Ritter (1885–1952) was a Swabian master confectioner who, with his wife Clara, founded the chocolate factory in Stuttgart-Bad Cannstatt in 1912 that became Ritter Sport.
Aloys Wobben
Aloys Wobben (1952–2021) was a German electrical engineer who founded the wind turbine manufacturer ENERCON in Aurich in 1984 and pioneered the gearless direct-drive turbine.
Altrad Group
Altrad Group is a French industrial services and equipment group founded in Montpellier in 1985 by Mohed Altrad, generating about €5.9 billion in 2025 with 65,000 employees.
Amadori
Amadori is an Italian food group based in Cesena, founded in 1969 by Francesco and Arnaldo Amadori, with about 30% of Italian poultry meat sales.
Ambassador Theatre Group
Ambassador Theatre Group, renamed ATG Entertainment in 2024, is a British live theater operator founded by Howard Panter and Rosemary Squire, running about 70 venues worldwide.
André Besnier
André Besnier was a French cheesemaker who founded a dairy in Laval, France, in 1933, making camemberts under the Le Petit Lavallois brand; it grew into Lactalis.
Andreas Hartleif
Andreas Hartleif is a German business executive who has led VEKA AG as Chairman and CEO since 2007 and became CEO of the Laumann Group in 2024.
Andreas Müller (German businessman)
Andreas Müller is a German managing director of Alois Müller GmbH, an energy and building technology company in Ungerhausen, Bavaria, known for the CO₂-neutral Green Factory and the 2021 EY Audience Award.
Antoine Riboud
Antoine Riboud (1918–2002) was a French industrialist who founded the glass group BSN in 1966 and rebuilt it over thirty years into Danone, one of Europe's largest food companies.
ARNE
ARNE is a British minimalist clothing brand founded in 2018 by brothers Ryan and Reece Broadhurst, based near Warrington, England, and known for affordable luxury menswear sold direct-to-consumer online.
Arthur Brooke (tea merchant)
Arthur Brooke (1845–1918) was a British tea merchant who founded Brooke, Bond & Co. in Manchester in 1869, the company behind PG Tips that became the world's largest tea business.
Artur Schwörer
Artur Schwörer (died 2009) was a German entrepreneur who founded the formwork and scaffolding manufacturer PERI with his wife Christl in Weißenhorn, Bavaria, in 1969.
Asif Aziz
Asif Aziz, born in Malawi in 1967, is a British property investor who founded Criterion Capital, converting underused central London buildings into hotels and housing, including the Trocadero.
August Arnold
August Arnold (1898–1982) was a German engineer and entrepreneur who co-founded ARRI, the Munich maker of the Arriflex 35 and ALEXA cameras, with Robert Richter in 1917.
August Küntzmann Damm
August Küntzmann Damm (1843–1877) was a French brewer from Alsace who settled in Barcelona in 1871 and founded the brewery that became S.A. Damm, brewer of Estrella Damm.
August Oetker
August Oetker (1862–1918) was a German pharmacist who founded the Dr. Oetker food business in Bielefeld in 1891, selling Backin baking powder in small, fixed-dose sachets.
August Storck
August Storck, known as Oberwelland, was a German confectioner who founded the Werther'sche Zuckerwarenfabrik in Werther, Westphalia, in 1903, the origin of August Storck KG.
August Zátka
August Zátka (1847–1935) was a Czech lawyer and politician who headed the founding committee of the Czech Joint Stock Brewery, predecessor of Budějovický Budvar, in 1894–1895.
Axel Springer
Axel Caesar Springer (1912–1985) was a German publisher who built a press empire after 1946, launching BILD; his company, Axel Springer SE, became a debt-free, family-owned media company in 2025.
Ayman Asfari
Ayman Asfari, born 1958, is a Syrian-born British businessman who joined Petrofac in 1991, led its 2005 London flotation, and was chief executive until late 2020.