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Omri Padan
Omri Padan is an Israeli businessman who founded, owned, and led McDonald's Israel from 1993 until its 2024 buy-back by McDonald's, and is a co-founder of the Peace Now movement.
Ooni
Ooni, formerly Uuni, is a Scottish consumer cooking company that makes portable outdoor pizza ovens, founded in 2012 by the husband-and-wife team Kristian Tapaninaho and Darina Garland.
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.
Paddy Cosgrave
Paddy Cosgrave is an Irish entrepreneur and chief executive of Web Summit, the technology conference he co-founded in Dublin in 2010 and later moved to Lisbon.
Patrizio Bertelli
Patrizio Bertelli is an Italian businessman who was co-CEO of the Prada Group with his wife Miuccia Prada until 2023 and is now chairman of Prada S.p.A.
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 Jones (entrepreneur)
Peter David Jones is a British entrepreneur and investor, the last remaining original Dragon on Dragons' Den since 2005, with a fortune built on mobile-phone distribution.
Peter Kuijper
Peter Kuijper, also spelled Cuyper, was a 17th-century Dutch brewer in Groenlo who took over the 1615 brewery and became known as the founder of Grolsch beer.
Peter Mountford (South African businessman)
Peter Mountford is a South African businessman and Chartered Accountant who has been chief executive of Super Group Limited since 2009, rescuing the near-bankrupt logistics and dealership group and leading over 18,800 people across 12 countries.
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.
Peter Stringfellow
Peter Stringfellow was a British nightclub owner and impresario who booked early Beatles, Who, and Rolling Stones shows and opened Stringfellows in Covent Garden in 1980.
PG Paper
PG Paper is an international paper trading company founded by Poonam Gupta in Greenock, Scotland, in 2003, moving surplus European paper to buyers in more than 60 countries.
Phil Beahon
Philip "Phil" Beahon is a British sportswear entrepreneur who, with his older brother Tom, founded the premium activewear brand Castore in Bebington, Merseyside in 2015.
Philip Wulff Heyman
Philip Wulff Heyman (1837–1893) was a Danish wholesale merchant who co-founded the Tuborg brewery at Hellerup in 1873 and led it as its 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.
Pierre Bergé
Pierre Bergé was a French businessman who co-founded the house of Yves Saint Laurent in 1961, ran its business side for four decades, and later campaigned for AIDS research and gay rights.
Pierre Bivas
Pierre Bivas is a French energy entrepreneur and Corps des Mines engineer who co-founded Voltalis in Paris in 2006, Europe's first large-scale residential demand-response company.
Pierre Celis
Pierre Celis (1925–2011) was a Belgian brewer who revived the witbier style in Hoegaarden by opening a brewery there in 1966, later founding Celis Brewery in Austin, Texas.
Pierre Draps Sr.
Pierre Draps Sr. was a Belgian chocolatier who in 1926 began making chocolate pralines in a small atelier in his Brussels home, the business that became Godiva.
Pietro Barilla
Pietro Barilla (1913–1993) was an Italian businessman who led the Barilla pasta company of Parma, sold it to W.R. Grace in 1971, and bought it back in 1979.
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.
Pronovias
Pronovias is a Barcelona-based bridal fashion group selling wedding dresses under seven brands, grown from a 1922 lace shop and once the world's largest bridal wear company.
Puma (brand)
Puma is a German sportswear company headquartered in Herzogenaurach, founded by Rudolf Dassler in 1948 after splitting from his brother Adolf's shoe business, which became Adidas.