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Frank Perkins (engine manufacturer)
Frank Arthur Perkins (1889–1967) was an English engineer who co-founded Perkins Engines in Peterborough in 1932 with Charles Chapman, building it into the world's largest diesel engine maker by 1953.
František Hromada
František Hromada (1857–1934) was a Czech lawyer and chamber-of-commerce secretary who served as first chairman of the Czech Joint Stock Brewery, today's Budějovický Budvar, founded in 1895.
Franz-Josef Feilmeier
Franz-Josef Feilmeier is a German entrepreneur who founded the battery-storage manufacturer FENECON in Deggendorf in 2011 and won the EY Entrepreneur Of The Year 2023 award.
Fresenius Kabi
Fresenius Kabi is a German healthcare company, founded in 1999 and headquartered in Bad Homburg, that makes IV drugs, clinical nutrition, and medical technology for critically and chronically ill patients.
Friedhelm Loh
Friedhelm Loh (born 1946) is a German entrepreneur who owns and chairs the Friedhelm Loh Group, whose core company Rittal leads the world in electrical enclosures.
Fritz Sennheiser
Fritz Sennheiser (1912–2010) was a German electrical engineer who founded Sennheiser Electronic near Hanover in 1945, led it until 1982, and built it into a leading maker of microphones and headphones.
Fumio Sakiya
Fumio Sakiya (崎谷文雄), born 1945, is a Japanese entrepreneur who founded Rorze Corporation in Fukuyama, Japan, in 1985, a semiconductor automation equipment maker he led as president until 2015.
G3 Store
G3 Store is a surf shop and surf center in Peniche, Portugal, founded in 2008 by João Carinhas, offering surf lessons, rentals, and a surf camp.
Gábor Széles
Gábor Széles (born 1945) is a Hungarian electronics industrialist, chairman and CEO of Videoton Holding in Székesfehérvár, which he bought out of liquidation in 1991 and built into one of Hungary's largest manufacturers.
General de Galerías Comerciales
General de Galerías Comerciales is a Spanish shopping-center developer founded by Tomás Olivo López in 1995, known for La Cañada in Marbella and Nevada Shopping in Granada.
George Heaton
George Heaton is a British fashion entrepreneur who founded the streetwear label Represent with his brother Michael in 2011, growing it from printed T-shirts into a brand approaching £100 million in turnover.
Georges Claude
Georges Claude (1870–1960) was a French chemist-engineer who co-founded Air Liquide in 1902 and created the commercial neon lighting industry, later convicted of collaboration in 1945.
Gerard Adriaan Heineken
Gerard Adriaan Heineken (1841) was a Dutch brewer and entrepreneur who bought Amsterdam's De Hooiberg brewery in 1864, at age 22, and built it into the Heineken brewing company.
Gérard Blitz (Belgian businessman)
Gérard Blitz (1912–1990) was a Belgian-born diamond cutter who founded Club Méditerranée, known as Club Med, in 1950 and led its first tent village in Majorca.
Gérard Mulliez
Gérard Mulliez, born in 1931 in Roubaix, is a French retail entrepreneur who founded the Auchan hypermarket chain in 1961 and leads the Mulliez family holding.
Gerhard Blum
Gerhard Blum, born 1954, is an Austrian family-business executive who led furniture-fittings maker Julius Blum GmbH in Höchst, Vorarlberg, from 1983 to 2019, growing revenue from about €74 million to €1.888 billion.
Gerhard Sturm
Gerhard Sturm (born 1934) is a German industrialist who co-founded Elektrobau Mulfingen in 1963 and led it for over 40 years as it grew into ebm-papst, a leading fan and motor maker.
Geronimus Hatt
Geronimus Hatt, also known as Jérôme IV Hatt, was a Strasbourg cooper-brewer who became a master brewer in 1664 and founded the brewery that became Kronenbourg.
Gerry Ford
Gerry Ford is a British-based businessman who founded the Caffè Nero coffee house chain in 1997 and has run it as chairman and chief executive ever since.
Gilbert Trigano
Gilbert Trigano (1920–2001) was a French businessman who led Club Méditerranée from 1963 to 1993, turning the tented holiday club into the pioneer of the all-inclusive resort.
Gill Pearson
Gill Pearson (Gillian Louisa Pearson, born 1983) is a British businesswoman who owns and leads Newberry International Produce, a frozen fruit and vegetable supplier in Ledbury, Herefordshire.
Giovanni Peroni
Giovanni Peroni was an Italian brewing industrialist who took over his family's Rome brewery in 1867 at age 18, building Birra Peroni, now owned by Asahi.
Giuseppe De'Longhi
Giuseppe De'Longhi, born in Treviso, Italy, in 1939, is the Italian businessman who built the family appliance firm into De'Longhi S.p.A., known for coffee machines.
Godtfred Kirk Christiansen
Godtfred Kirk Christiansen (1920–1995) was a Danish industrialist who led the LEGO Group in Billund as managing director from 1957, creating the LEGO System and the 1958 brick.
Grant's
Grant's is a blended Scotch whisky brand created in 1898 by William Grant, the Dufftown distiller who founded Glenfiddich, and still made by his family firm.
Greg Martin
Greg Martin is a British-based beverages executive who served as Managing Director of Diageo's Africa Partner and Emerging Markets unit, covering 32 countries, from 2018 to 2023.
Grzebita family
The Grzebita family is a Polish business family that owns Terg S.A., the company behind Media Expert, one of Poland's largest consumer electronics retail chains.
Guccio Gucci
Guccio Gucci (1881–1953) was an Italian businessman who founded the Gucci leather-goods house in Florence in 1921; his sons expanded it globally, and family ownership ended in 1988–1989.
Guillermo Luengo Egido
Guillermo Luengo Egido is a Spanish family-business executive, grandson of SAMCA patriarch Ángel Luengo, who leads the group's €2 billion Green IT Aragón data center project.
Günther Quandt
Günther Quandt (died 1954) was a German industrialist who built a fortune on batteries, armaments, and coal, used some 50,000 forced laborers under the Nazis, and whose heirs held 46.7 percent of BMW.