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Wilcon Depot, Inc.
Wilcon Depot, Inc. is a Philippine home improvement retailer founded by William T. Belo in 1977, operating 104 stores and listed on the Philippine Stock Exchange since 2017.
William Soeryadjaya
William Soeryadjaya, born Tjia Kian Lion, was an Indonesian businessman who co-founded Astra International in 1957 and sold the family's shares in 1992 to repay Bank Summa's depositors.
William T. Belo
William T. Belo is a Filipino retail executive who founded Wilcon Depot in 1977 as a small Quezon City hardware store, now the Philippines' largest home improvement retailer.
Woo Oh-hyun
Woo Oh-hyun (우오현, born 1953) is a South Korean construction and shipping entrepreneur who founded Samra Construction in Gwangju in 1988 and chairs SM Group, known in Korea as the Samra Midas Group.
Worldwide Shipping Group
Worldwide Shipping Group, founded in Hong Kong in 1955 as World-Wide Steamship Company by Sir Yue-Kong Pao, grew into the world's largest independent bulk shipping fleet.
Yap family
The Yap family is a Manila-based Philippine business family founded by Emilio Yap, whose holdings span Philtrust Bank, Manila Bulletin, the Manila Hotel, and Centro Escolar University.
Yasuda zaibatsu
Yasuda zaibatsu (安田財閥) was a Japanese family conglomerate centered on banking and insurance, founded by Yasuda Zenjiro and ranked among pre-1945 Japan's four great zaibatsu.
Yasumitsu Shigeta
Yasumitsu Shigeta (重田康光, born 1965) is a Japanese entrepreneur who founded Hikari Tsushin in 1988, built it into a mobile-phone retail chain, and remains its chairman.
YTL Corporation
YTL Corporation Berhad is a Malaysian infrastructure conglomerate spanning power generation, water, cement, property, and telecommunications, and Malaysia's first independent power producer, licensed in 1993.
Yuchengco family
The Yuchengco family is a Manila-based Philippine business dynasty whose Yuchengco Group of Companies, founded as an insurance house in 1930, spans banking, insurance, and construction.
Yue-Kong Pao
Yue-Kong Pao (Pao Yue-kong, 包玉刚) was a Hong Kong shipping magnate who founded World-Wide Shipping in 1955, built the world's largest merchant fleet, and moved into property through Kowloon Wharf and Wheelock.
Yusuf Hamied
Yusuf K. Hamied, born 1936 in Vilnius, is an Indian pharmaceutical businessman who led Cipla and offered AIDS drugs at $350 per patient per year in 2001.
Zest-O Corporation
Zest-O Corporation is a privately held Philippine food-and-beverage company founded by Alfredo M. Yao in 1981, known for pioneering ready-to-drink juice in flexible doy pack pouches.
Zia Mody
Zia Mody is an Indian corporate attorney, co-founder and managing partner of AZB & Partners, ranked No. 1 in Fortune India's most powerful women in business in 2018 and 2019.