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Charles Chapman (engineer)
Charles Chapman was a British engineer who co-founded the diesel engine maker F. Perkins Ltd in Peterborough in 1932 and served as its technical director until 1942.
Charles Dunstone
Sir Charles Dunstone, born in 1964, is a British entrepreneur who co-founded Carphone Warehouse in 1989, led it until 2010, and has chaired TalkTalk since 2017.
Charlotte Tilbury
Charlotte Tilbury is a British prestige makeup and skincare brand founded in 2013 by celebrity makeup artist Charlotte Tilbury, now majority-owned by the Spanish beauty group Puig.
Chiara Ercole
Chiara Ercole (born 1983) is an Italian business executive, chief executive since 2013 of F.lli Saclà, the family-owned preserved-food company founded at Asti in 1939.
Christian Candy
Christian Candy, born Christian Peter Candy in 1974, is a British property developer who co-founded the Candy businesses with his brother Nick and owns CPC Group.
Christl Schwörer
Christl Schwörer is a German businesswoman who co-founded PERI, the formwork and scaffolding group, with her husband Artur Schwörer in 1969 in Weissenhorn, Bavaria; the family firm remains 100% family-owned.
Christoph Blocher
Christoph Blocher is a Swiss industrialist, lawyer, and politician who bought EMS-Chemie in 1983, built it into a global polymers maker, and served on the Federal Council from 2004 to 2007.
Christoph Leitl
Christoph Leitl, born 1949 in Linz, is an Austrian entrepreneur and ÖVP politician who served as president of Austria's federal economic chamber, the Wirtschaftskammer Österreich, from 2000 to 2018.
Clara Ritter
Clara Ritter, born Clara Göttle, was a German confectionery retailer who co-founded the Ritter Sport chocolate factory in 1912 and is credited with the idea for its trademark square chocolate bar, launched in 1932.
Clare Roberts
Clare Roberts, born 1977, is a British businesswoman who co-founded Kids Planet Day Nurseries with her father in 2008, now the UK's second-largest nursery operator.
Cofix Group Ltd
Cofix Group Ltd is an Israeli fixed-price coffee-shop and supermarket chain founded by Avi Katz in 2013, selling coffee and food at a single low price.
Corteiz
Corteiz, also written CRTZ, is a London streetwear label founded in 2017 by Clint Ogbenna, known as Clint419, which sells limited runs through password-protected drops rather than retail.
Cremonini S.p.A.
Cremonini S.p.A. is an Italian food-industry holding company founded by Luigi Cremonini in 1963, controlling Inalca, MARR, and Chef Express, with 2025 revenues of 6.42 billion euro.
CTP
CTP, full name Central Trade Park, is a Netherlands-based developer of industrial and logistics real estate, founded by Remon Vos in 1998 and listed on Euronext Amsterdam.
Czechoslovak Group
Czechoslovak Group is a Czech industrial and defense holding of more than 100 companies, founded by Jaroslav Strnad in 1995 and owned by his son Michal Strnad since 2018.
Daniel Wellington
Daniel Wellington is a Swedish fashion watch and accessories brand founded by Filip Tysander in 2011, which grew through Instagram influencer marketing before Timex acquired it in 2026.
Darina Garland
Darina Garland is a British entrepreneur who co-founded Ooni, the portable pizza-oven company, with her husband Kristian Tapaninaho in 2012, serving as co-CEO and Chief Experience Officer.
Daurella family
The Daurella family is a Barcelona-based Catalan business family that has bottled Coca-Cola in Spain since 1951 and controls the largest bloc in Coca-Cola Europacific Partners.
David Howden
David Howden is a British insurance entrepreneur who founded the Howden Group in 1994 with six employees and built it into one of the world's largest insurance brokers, known for employee ownership.
David MacDonald (businessman)
David MacDonald is a Scottish businessman and chief executive of Cullen Eco-Friendly Packaging, a Glasgow packaging manufacturer, named EY Entrepreneur Of The Year 2022 UK Transformational Leader.
David Otto Francke
David Otto Francke (1825–1892) was a Swedish industrialist and financier from Gothenburg, nicknamed the King of Mölndal, who co-founded AB Atlas, today's Atlas Copco, in 1873.
Deichmann family
The Deichmann family of Essen, Germany, owns Deichmann SE, the shoe retailer founded in 1913, now one of Europe's largest with over 4,700 stores and 100% family ownership.
Denise Coates
Denise Coates is a British gambling executive who built bet365 from a Stoke-on-Trent car park cabin in 2001 and owns a majority stake in the private company.
Diego Della Valle
Diego Della Valle, born in 1953 in Italy's Marche region, is the Italian businessman who built his family's shoe workshop into the luxury group Tod's.
Diesel (fashion house)
Diesel is an Italian fashion brand, led by denim and positioned in premium casual wear, founded in 1978 in Molvena and controlled by Renzo Rosso's OTB Group.
Dino Polska
Dino Polska is a Polish supermarket chain founded by Tomasz Biernacki, whose first store opened in Gostyń in 1999; it had 3,033 stores by the end of 2025.
Dirk Rossmann
Dirk Rossmann, born 1946, is a German retail entrepreneur who founded the Rossmann drugstore chain, opening Germany's first self-service drugstore in Hannover in 1972; his son Raoul has led the company since 2021.
Dr. Antje von Dewitz
Dr. Antje von Dewitz (born 1972) is a German business executive who has led VAUDE, her family's outdoor equipment company in Tettnang, since 2009, winning the Deutscher Nachhaltigkeitspreis in 2024.
Dr. Dennis Schmoltzi
Dr. Dennis Schmoltzi is a German entrepreneur who co-founded Emma – The Sleep Company in Frankfurt in 2013, growing it to €961.9 million in revenue by 2023.
Dr. Joachim Kuhn
Dr. Joachim Kuhn is a German physicist who co-founded the vacuum thermal packaging company va-Q-tec in Würzburg in 2001 and led it as CEO for over two decades.