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Quick (restaurant)
Quick is a fast-food burger chain founded in Belgium around 1971, long McDonald's main French competitor, known for its exclusively halal meat and now owned by H.I.G. Capital.
R&R Ice Cream
R&R Ice Cream was an own-label and licensed ice cream manufacturer at Leeming Bar, North Yorkshire, founded in 1985 as Richmond Ice Cream and merged into Froneri in 2016.
Ramón Areces
Ramón Areces (1904–1989) was a Spanish businessman who founded the department store group El Corte Inglés in Madrid in 1940 and led it as president until his death.
Raymond Cloosterman
Raymond Cloosterman is a Dutch entrepreneur who founded Rituals Cosmetics in Amsterdam in 2000 after thirteen years at Unilever, building it into a brand with nearly 1,500 boutiques in 33 countries.
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.
Reece Broadhurst
Reece Broadhurst (born 1995) is a British clothing entrepreneur, co-founder and chief executive of ARNE, the Warrington fashion brand he started with his brother Ryan in 2018.
Reinhard Binder
Reinhard Binder, born 1954, is an Austrian timber industrialist who owns and leads binderholz GmbH, a family wood group in Fügen, Tyrol, with €3.549 billion revenue in 2022.
Reinhard Schneider
Reinhard Schneider (born 1968) is a German owner-manager and chief executive of Werner & Mertz in Mainz, the family firm behind the ecological Frosch cleaning brand.
Reinhold Würth (Würth Group)
Reinhold Würth, born 1935, is a German entrepreneur who took over his father's screw wholesale business at 19 and built it into the Würth Group.
Remon Vos
Remon Vos, born 1970, is a Dutch real estate developer who founded CTP in 1998 and took it public on Euronext Amsterdam in 2021, valuing it at €5.6 billion.
Renzo Rosso
Renzo Rosso, born in 1955, is an Italian fashion entrepreneur who founded Diesel in 1978 and created OTB, the group owning Diesel, Maison Margiela, and Jil Sander.
Richard Bourne (Royal Navy officer)
Captain Richard Bourne was a Dublin shipowner and former Royal Navy officer who co-founded the Peninsular Steam Navigation Company in 1835, the business that became P&O.
Richard Marsh (brewer)
Richard Marsh was a Faversham brewer who leased the Court Street brewery in 1678 and bought it outright in 1698, the founding date of Shepherd Neame, Britain's oldest brewer.
Richter Rasen
Richter Rasen is an Austrian family firm founded in 1906 in Deutsch Brodersdorf, Lower Austria, that grows and installs turf for gardens, sports grounds, and stadiums.
Rituals Cosmetics
Rituals Cosmetics is an Amsterdam-based home and body cosmetics brand founded by Raymond Cloosterman in 2000, with nearly 1,500 boutiques in 33 countries and 2025 revenue of €2.43 billion.
Robert Richter (film engineer)
Robert Richter (1899–1972) was a German engineer who co-founded ARRI, formally Arnold & Richter Cine Technik, with his schooldays partner August Arnold in Munich in 1917.
Roig family
The Roig family is the Valencia-based Spanish family that founded, owns, and runs Mercadona, Spain's largest supermarket chain, led by Juan Roig and ranked third among Spain's richest families.
Rosalía Mera
Rosalía Mera was a Spanish businesswoman who co-founded the clothing retailer Zara with her then-husband Amancio Ortega, opening the first store in A Coruña in 1975.
Rosemary Squire
Rosemary Squire is a British theater executive who co-founded the Ambassador Theatre Group with Sir Howard Panter in 1992, building it into the world's largest live theater business before launching Trafalgar Entertainment.
Rossmann
Rossmann is a German drugstore chain headquartered in Burgwedel near Hannover, founded by Dirk Rossmann, who opened Germany's first self-service drugstore in 1972; it remains family-controlled and operates 5,209 stores.
Rubiralta Giralt family
The Rubiralta Giralt family of Barcelona founded and wholly owns Werfen, the world leader in coagulation diagnostics; José María Rubiralta started the business as Izasa in 1966.
Rudolf Dassler
Rudolf Dassler, known as Rudi, was a German shoe manufacturer who co-founded the Dassler brothers' shoe firm, founded Puma after their 1948 split, and ran it until his death in 1974.
Rudolph Puggaard
Rudolph Puggaard (1818–1885) was a Copenhagen wholesale merchant, banker, and insurer who in 1873 was one of four financiers, with C.F. Tietgen and Philip W. Heyman, who founded Tuborgs Fabrikker.
Ryan Broadhurst
Ryan Broadhurst is a British fashion entrepreneur who co-founded ARNE, a Warrington-based clothing label, with his brother Reece in 2018, reaching £84.1m turnover in 2024.
Ryzon GmbH
Ryzon GmbH is a German premium sportswear brand based in Cologne, founded in 2016 by brothers Mario and Markus Konrad with designer Fabian Jung, selling direct to consumers.
Sammontana
Sammontana is an Italian family-owned manufacturer of industrial gelato and frozen desserts, founded in Empoli, Tuscany, in 1946 and still controlled by the Bagnoli family.
Samuel Leeds
Samuel Luke Leeds, born 1991, is a British property investor and educator whose Samuel Leeds Academy mentorship costs £11,997 and has drawn criticism in the UK's landlord influencer scene.
Sebastian Braun
Sebastian Braun is a German pharmaceutical entrepreneur, main owner of CHEPLAPHARM in Greifswald, which he took over at age 23 in 2003 and led as CEO for two decades.
Sergio Costa
Sergio Costa (1949–2022) was an Italian-born entrepreneur who co-founded Costa Coffee with his brother Bruno, created its Mocha Italia blend, and sold the chain to Whitbread in 1995.
Sharan Pasricha
Sharan Pasricha is an Indian-born hospitality entrepreneur who founded Ennismore in 2011, globalized The Hoxton hotel brand, reinvented Gleneagles in Scotland, and merged Ennismore into a majority Accor-owned joint venture in 2021.