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Johann Offner Unternehmensgruppe
Johann Offner Unternehmensgruppe is an eighth-generation family-owned industrial group in Wolfsberg, Austria, founded in 1755, combining Europe's largest long-handle tool factories with a sawmill and KLH cross-laminated timber.
Johannes Thurzó
Johannes Thurzó (Hungarian: Thurzó János; Slovak: Ján Thurzo, 1437–1508) was a Kraków merchant and mining engineer who co-founded the Thurzó–Fugger copper company with Jakob Fugger in 1494.
John Davenport Siddeley
John Davenport Siddeley (1866–1953) was an English motor-industry manager and aircraft manufacturer who built Siddeley-Deasy in Coventry into a major war contractor and led Armstrong Siddeley.
Joseph Cyril Bamford
Joseph Cyril Bamford, known as Joe Bamford, was the English industrialist who founded JCB in a Uttoxeter garage in 1945 and pioneered the backhoe loader in 1953.
Juan Molins Amat
Juan Molins Amat, also printed as Joan Molins Amat, is a Spanish businessman who led the cement group Cementos Molins, joining its board in 1967 and chairing it 2017 to 2025.
Julius Blum GmbH
Julius Blum GmbH is an Austrian, family-owned manufacturer of furniture fittings and hardware, founded by blacksmith Julius Blum in 1952 in Höchst, Vorarlberg, and known for its BLUMOTION soft-close hinge.
Knauf family
The Knauf family is a German entrepreneurial family that wholly owns Gebr. Knauf KG, parent of the building-materials group Knauf Gruppe, founded in 1932 in Iphofen, Bavaria.
László Szíjj
László Szíjj (Hungarian: Szíjj László) is a Hungarian billionaire businessman, cofounder and sole owner of Duna Aszfalt, one of Hungary's largest road and bridge construction companies, built largely on state contracts.
Magdalena Martullo-Blocher
Magdalena Martullo-Blocher (born 1969) is a Swiss business executive who has led the chemicals group EMS since 2004 and sits in the Swiss National Council for the SVP.
Markus Blocher
Markus Blocher is a Swiss chemicals entrepreneur, son of former Federal Councillor Christoph Blocher, who has been chief executive and majority shareholder of Dottikon ES since 2003.
Martin Blum
Martin Blum (born 1983) is an Austrian engineer and co-owner of Julius Blum GmbH, the furniture fittings manufacturer in Höchst, Vorarlberg, which he leads in its third generation with his cousin Philipp Blum.
Martin Drda
Martin Drda is a Czech owner-manager who owns the defense group STV Group, the Czech Republic's only maker of large-caliber ammunition, half-and-half with his mother Ludmila.
Martin Dürrstein
Martin Dürrstein (born 1971) is a German business engineer and CEO of DÜRR DENTAL SE, the family-owned dental-equipment maker he leads in the third generation since 2004.
Martin Hilti
Martin Hilti (1915–1997) was a Liechtenstein engineer and industrialist who, with his older brother Eugen, founded the construction-technology company Hilti in Schaan, Liechtenstein, in 1941, launching the world's first powder-actuated tool in 1957.
Michael Smurfit
Dr Michael Smurfit, born 1936, is an Irish-British packaging industrialist who ran Jefferson Smurfit Group from 1977 to 2002, took it private in a €3.7 billion buyout, and formed Smurfit Kappa.
Michal Strnad
Michal Strnad, born in 1992, is a Czech billionaire who owns and leads Czechoslovak Group, a Prague-based defense group that became the largest producer of small-caliber ammunition in the Western world.
Mohed Altrad
Mohed Altrad is a Syrian-born French entrepreneur who founded and controls Altrad Group, an industrial services company based in Montpellier, and owns Montpellier rugby club.
Otto Frank
Otto Frank, also known as Pim Frank, was a German-born Jewish businessman in Amsterdam, father of Anne Frank and first publisher of her diary in 1947.
Paul Delorme
Paul Delorme was a French businessman and financier who co-founded Air Liquide, the industrial gas group, and led it as first president from 1902 to 1945.
Paul Schwarzkopf
Paul Schwarzkopf, born in Prague in 1886, was a doctor of technical science and pioneer of tungsten powder metallurgy who founded Metallwerk Plansee in Reutte, Tyrol, in 1921; his 1947 book remained a standard work.
Pavel Tykač
Pavel Tykač is a Czech energy and mining entrepreneur, sole owner of the Sev.en Group, who built his fortune in Czech lignite mining and coal-fired power.
PERI GmbH
PERI GmbH is a family-owned German manufacturer and renter of engineered formwork and scaffolding systems, founded in 1969 in Weißenhorn and among the world's largest.
Peter Spuhler
Peter Spuhler, born 1959, is a Swiss entrepreneur who bought Stadler Rail in 1989 with 18 employees, took it public in 2019, and remains chairman and largest shareholder.
Philipp Blum
Philipp Blum, born in 1979, is an Austrian managing partner of Julius Blum GmbH, the furniture-fittings maker in Höchst, Vorarlberg, leading it since 2019 in the third generation.
Phoenix Contact
Phoenix Contact is a German, family-owned manufacturer of electrical connection technology and industrial automation equipment, founded in Essen in 1923 and headquartered in Blomberg, with about 21,000 employees and roughly €3.3 billion in revenue.
Piero Ginori Conti
Piero Ginori Conti, Prince of Trevignano (1865–1939), was an Italian industrialist, senator, and politician who in 1904 became the first person to generate electricity from geothermal steam at Larderello, Tuscany.
Pietro Gussalli Beretta
Pietro Gussalli Beretta, born in Brescia, Italy, in 1962, is President and CEO of Beretta Holding, a fifteenth-generation Beretta who leads the world's largest firearms company.
PLANSEE
PLANSEE is a privately held Austrian group making tungsten and molybdenum components by powder metallurgy, founded in 1921 in Tyrol by Paul Schwarzkopf and Richard Kurtz.
Poonam Gupta (businesswoman)
Poonam Gupta OBE is a Scottish businesswoman from Delhi who co-founded the paper trader PG Paper Company in 2003, serving as joint chief executive and receiving an OBE in 2016.
Recycling Lives
Recycling Lives was a Preston-based group combining scrap metal and waste recycling with a charity for homeless people and ex-offenders; its trading companies entered administration in 2024.