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Monde Nissin
Monde Nissin is a Philippine food manufacturer founded in 1979, best known for Lucky Me! instant noodles and SkyFlakes crackers, and owner of British meat-substitute maker Quorn Foods.
Moon Joo-hyun
Moon Joo-hyun (문주현, born 1958) is a South Korean business executive who founded MDM Co. in 1998 and chairs Seoul-based MDM Group.
Moulin Coq Rouge
Moulin Coq Rouge, also called Minoterie Le Coq Rouge, is a wheat flour mill in the Ndogsimbi district of Douala, Cameroon, owned by businessman Baba Ahmadou Danpullo.
Moutaz Al-Khayyat
Moutaz Al-Khayyat is a Qatari entrepreneur and Chairman of Power International Holding, the Doha conglomerate he founded with his brothers Ramez and Mohammad in 2011.
MRV Engenharia e Participações S.A.
MRV Engenharia e Participações S.A. is a Brazilian homebuilder founded in Belo Horizonte in 1979 by Rubens Menin, which builds low-income housing at high volume across 22 states and the United States.
Muangthai Capital
Muangthai Capital, also known as Muangthai Leasing, is a Thai non-bank consumer-finance company founded in 1992 by Chuchat Petaumpai and Daonapa Patcharachai, lending against vehicle titles to low-income borrowers.
Multiexport Foods
Multiexport Foods is a Chilean salmon farming and exporting holding company founded in 1983, whose operating subsidiary Multi X leads Chile's smoked-salmon exports and ranks second in Atlantic salmon.
Munib R. Masri
Munib R. Masri, also known as Munib Al-Masri, is a Jordanian-Palestinian businessman born in Nablus in 1934 who founded and chairs the Edgo energy group in Amman.
N. Vaghul
Narayanan Vaghul (1936–2024) was an Indian banker who, as chairman of ICICI from 1985 and of ICICI Bank until 2009, built India's second-biggest bank and founded credit agency CRISIL.
Nawaf Saud Al-Sabah
Nawaf Saud Al-Sabah, born in 1971, is a Kuwaiti member of the ruling Al-Sabah family who has led the state-owned Kuwait Petroleum Corporation as CEO since 2022.
Ndawara Tea Estate
Ndawara Tea Estate, also Ndawara Highland Tea Estate, is a large tea plantation in Cameroon's Northwest Region, owned by Baba Ahmadou Danpullo and exporting mainly to Chad and Sudan.
Nejat Eczacıbaşı
Nejat Eczacıbaşı (1913–1993) was a Turkish chemist and industrialist who founded the Eczacıbaşı Group, a family-controlled conglomerate, with a pharmaceutical laboratory in Istanbul in 1942.
Ng Teng Fong
Ng Teng Fong (黄廷方) was a Singapore property magnate who founded Far East Organization in 1960 and developed much of Orchard Road's shopping strip, dying in 2010.
Nguyen Dang Quang
Nguyen Dang Quang (Nguyễn Đăng Quang) is a Vietnamese businessman who co-founded Masan Group, a Ho Chi Minh City consumer goods and retail conglomerate, and serves as its chairman.
Nguyen Thi Phuong Thao
Nguyen Thi Phuong Thao (Nguyễn Thị Phương Thảo), born 1970 in Hanoi, is a Vietnamese businesswoman who chairs VietJet Air and leads Sovico Group, and is Vietnam's first self-made woman billionaire.
Niccolò Branca
Niccolò Branca (born 1957) is an Italian business executive, president and CEO of Branca International and head of the Milan distiller that makes Fernet-Branca since 1999.
Nickel Asia Corp.
Nickel Asia Corp. is a Philippine mining company, incorporated in 2008 and listed in 2010, producing lateritic nickel ore from six mines across the Philippines.
Nizan Guanaes
Nizan Guanaes, born 1958 in Salvador, Bahia, is a Brazilian advertising entrepreneur who co-founded Grupo ABC in 2002, sold it to Omnicom for about R$ 1 billion, and later founded the AI platform Nizai.
Noble Group (commodity trading company)
Noble Group was a Hong Kong-based commodity trading house founded in 1986 by Richard Elman that became Asia's largest commodity trader before collapsing into a $3.5 billion debt restructuring in 2018.
Norival Bonamichi
Norival Bonamichi (born 1955) is a Brazilian businessman who co-founded the animal-health company Ouro Fino with childhood friend Jardel Massari, starting as a veterinary-products distributor in 1985.
Nutchamai Thanombooncharoen
Nutchamai Thanombooncharoen is a Thai businesswoman who cofounded Carabao Group and chairs the SET-listed company, whose Carabao Dang energy drink is sold in over 40 countries.
O Boticário
O Boticário is a Brazilian cosmetics and beauty-retail group founded by Miguel Krigsner in 1977 in Curitiba, Paraná, and grown into one of the world's largest beauty retailers by store count.
O Capital Group
O Capital Group is a Moroccan family investment holding company created in 2021 through a merger, chaired by Othman Benjelloun, with a 35.5% stake in Bank of Africa.
Odebrecht
Odebrecht is a Brazilian engineering and construction group founded in 1944, once the largest builder in Brazil, and central to the Operation Car Wash corruption investigation begun in 2014.
Olavo Setúbal
Olavo Egydio Setubal (1923–2008) was a Brazilian engineer-turned-banker who built Banco Itaú into one of Brazil's largest private banks and served as São Paulo's mayor and foreign minister.
Olayan Alwetaid
Olayan Alwetaid is a Saudi business executive who has led stc Group as CEO since 2021, after earlier roles at Saudi Aramco and stc Bahrain.
Olivia Lum
Olivia Lum (Lum Ooi Lin) is a Singapore-based entrepreneur who founded water-treatment group Hyflux in 1989 and became the first female EY World Entrepreneur Of The Year winner in 2011.
Onsi Sawiris
Onsi Sawiris (أنسى ساويرس) was an Egyptian industrialist, born in 1930 in Sohag, who founded the Orascom group in 1976 and built a construction-to-telecom empire run by his three sons.
Oppenheimer family
The Oppenheimer family is a South African business dynasty of German-Jewish origin that founded Anglo American in 1917 and controlled De Beers until selling its stake in 2012.
Orascom
Orascom, also known as the Orascom Group, is an Egyptian family conglomerate founded in 1976 by Onsi Sawiris and divided among his three sons in the 1990s.