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Simmer Eats
Simmer Eats is a British high-protein ready-meal delivery company founded by Simmy Dhillon in 2017, later joined by his brother Jhai, delivering chef-prepared subscription meals nationwide without outside investment.
Simon-Kucher
Simon-Kucher, often called Simon-Kucher & Partners, is a partner-owned management consultancy specializing in pricing, sales, and marketing, founded in Bonn, Germany in 1985 as a university spin-off with about 2,200 employees in 45 offices.
Sinclair Beecham
Sinclair Beecham, born in 1958, is a British businessman who co-founded the sandwich chain Pret A Manger, opening its first shop on Victoria Street in London in 1986.
Sol Daurella Comadrán
Sol Daurella Comadrán is a Spanish businesswoman, born in Barcelona in 1966, who chairs Coca-Cola Europacific Partners, the world's largest independent Coca-Cola bottler, and has been a Banco Santander director since 2015.
Stéphane Courbit
Stéphane Courbit is a French media and gambling entrepreneur who founded LOV Group in 2008 and controls Banijay, one of the world's largest independent television producers.
Steve Jackson (Recycling Lives founder)
Steve Jackson, born in Preston in 1966, is a British recycling entrepreneur who founded Recycling Lives in 2008, a waste-management business built around a social welfare charity.
Stihl family
The Stihl family (German: Familie Stihl) is the owner family of STIHL, the Waiblingen-based maker of the world's best-selling chainsaw brand, founded by Andreas Stihl in 1926.
Stuart Paver
Stuart Paver is a British retail executive who leads Pavers Shoes, the comfort footwear chain founded by his mother Catherine in York in 1971, and won the EY Entrepreneur Of The Year 2019 UK award.
Tetra
Tetra is a German manufacturer of aquarium and pond supplies, founded in 1951 by Ulrich Baensch in Hanover and best known for TetraMin, the first flake fish food.
Teun van de Keuken
Teun van de Keuken is a Dutch journalist who founded the chocolate company Tony's Chocolonely in 2005 after reporting on forced and illegal child labor in cocoa.
Theo Albrecht
Theo Albrecht (1922–2010) was a German retail entrepreneur who, with his brother Karl, built Aldi, the hard-discount pioneer; he ran Aldi Nord, acquired Trader Joe's, and was kidnapped in 1971.
Thomas Herrmann
Thomas Herrmann is a German engineer who led ultrasonic welding firm Herrmann Ultraschalltechnik as CEO from 2007 to 2026, winning EY's 2021 Entrepreneur Of The Year award.
Thomas Lipton
Thomas Lipton (1848–1931) was a Glasgow grocer who created the global Lipton tea brand from Ceylon plantations and challenged five times for the America's Cup.
Tibor Veres
Tibor Veres (Veres Tibor) is a Hungarian investor who founded, owns, and leads Wallis Group, a Budapest-based investment group with holdings across 18 European countries.
Tom Beahon
Tom Beahon is a British entrepreneur who co-founded the premium sportswear brand Castore with his brother Phil, a Manchester-based company valued at almost £1bn in 2023.
Tomás Olivo
Tomás Olivo is a Spanish property promoter based in Marbella who founded shopping-center company General de Galerías Comerciales in 1995 and still owns about 99.6% of it.
Tomasz Biernacki
Tomasz Biernacki, born 1973, is the founder and chairman of the supervisory board of Dino Polska, a Polish supermarket chain he started in 1999.
Torstein Hagen
Torstein Hagen is a Norwegian shipping executive who founded the Viking river and ocean cruise line in 1997, built it to 109 ships, and remains its controlling owner.
Ulrich Baensch
Ulrich Baensch was a German natural scientist who founded the aquarium-products company Tetra in Hanover in 1951 and developed TetraMin, the world's first industrially produced flake fish food.
Ulrich Prediger
Ulrich Prediger is a German entrepreneur and economist who co-founded JobRad in Freiburg in 2008, building it into the market leader in German company-bicycle leasing.
Union Technical
Union Technical, formally Union Technical Services Ltd, is a Glasgow-based energy-efficiency and retrofit contractor founded in 2014 by Owen Coyle and Michael Sweeney, delivering whole-house upgrades mainly for social housing.
Universidad Alfonso X El Sabio
Universidad Alfonso X El Sabio (UAX) is a private, for-profit Spanish university in Villanueva de la Cañada, near Madrid, founded by Jesús Núñez Velázquez and recognized in 1993.
va-Q-tec AG
va-Q-tec AG is a German insulation technology company founded in Würzburg in 2001, known for passive thermal containers that keep goods cold for days without energy.
Vidal Sassoon
Vidal Sassoon, born January 17, 1928, was a British hairdresser and entrepreneur whose wash-and-wear geometric cuts revolutionized hairdressing; he built salons, academies, and a product line sold in 1983.
Viessmann family
The Viessmann family is a German family of industrial entrepreneurs who owned and led the heating-technology maker Viessmann from 1917 until selling its climate division to Carrier in 2024.
Viking Cruises
Viking Cruises, formally Viking Holdings Ltd, is a cruise company founded by Torstein Hagen in 1997, operating adults-only, destination-focused river, ocean, and expedition voyages, with 107 ships as of 2026.
Vishal Karia
Vishal Karia is a British businessman who founded Affinity Fragrances in Iver, England, in 2016, growing it to £125 million in revenue and a £122 million fortune.
Walter Sumetzberger
Walter Sumetzberger is an Austrian business executive, managing director and sole shareholder of Ing. Sumetzberger GmbH, a Vienna family firm and leading maker of pneumatic tube systems, since 2023.
Willem Neerfeldt
Willem Neerfeldt was a brewer in Grol, today's Groenlo in the Netherlands, whom Grolsch histories name as founder of the brewery that became Royal Grolsch, dating to 1615.
William Bass (brewer)
William Bass (1717–1787) was an English carrier who founded the Bass Brewery in Burton-upon-Trent, Staffordshire, in 1777; his firm became the world's largest brewer, and its red triangle was one of Britain's earliest registered trademarks.