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Polar Ice Cream Company

Polar Ice Cream Company is a privately held South African manufacturer of ice cream and frozen desserts, founded by Ashraf Mohamed in 1990 and based in Cape Town.

Pollo Campero

Pollo Campero is a Guatemalan fast-casual fried and roasted chicken chain founded in Guatemala City in 1971, with more than 350 restaurants and 2022 sales of $684 million.

Porsche family

The Porsche family is a Stuttgart-based German business dynasty descended from engineer Ferdinand Porsche, whose clan controls Porsche SE and holds majority voting rights over Volkswagen.

Power International Holding (Qatari conglomerate)

Power International Holding is a diversified Qatari family conglomerate founded in 2011 by Syrian-born brothers Moutaz and Ramez Al-Khayyat, with over 400 companies in 25 countries.

Prajogo Pangestu

Prajogo Pangestu, born 1944 in West Kalimantan, is an Indonesian businessman who founded and leads Barito Pacific, the country's largest petrochemical company, and has topped Indonesia's wealth lists since 2023.

Prasert Prasarttong-Osoth

Prasert Prasarttong-Osoth (ปราเสริฐ ปราสาททองโอสถ) was a Thai surgeon-turned-billionaire who founded Bangkok Dusit Medical Services, Thailand's largest private hospital operator, and Bangkok Airways, dying in 2026 at 93.

Prayudh Mahagitsiri

Prayudh Mahagitsiri (ประยุทธ มหากิจศิริ) is a Thai businessman and chairman of PM Group, called the coffee king of Thailand for his decades-long Nescafé partnership with Nestlé.

Prem Watsa

Prem Watsa, born in Hyderabad, India, in 1950, is a Canadian investor who acquired Markel Financial in 1985 and built it into Fairfax Financial, a Toronto insurance holding company.

Press Metal Aluminium Holdings

Press Metal Aluminium Holdings is a Malaysian aluminum producer founded by Paul Koon and his brothers in 1986, the largest integrated aluminum producer in Southeast Asia.

Primax

Primax is a fuel retailer based in Lima, Peru, founded in 2004 by Grupo Romero and Chile's ENAP, with 2,185 stations in Peru, Ecuador, and Colombia by 2024.

Pritzker family

The Pritzker family is a Chicago-based American business dynasty that built one of the largest private fortunes in the United States through the Hyatt hotel chain.

PRS Oberoi

Prithvi Raj Singh Oberoi, known as Biki, was an Indian hotelier who led EIH Limited, the Oberoi Group flagship, and received the Padma Vibhushan in 2008.

PSG Group

PSG Group was a South African investment holding company founded in 1995 by Jannie Mouton and Chris Otto, which grew to roughly R250bn in assets before delisting from the JSE in 2022.

Public Bank

Public Bank Berhad is a Malaysian banking group founded in 1966 by Teh Hong Piow and headquartered in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia's third-largest bank by assets.

Puig family

The Puig family is a Spanish business dynasty from Barcelona, founded in 1914 by Antonio Puig Castelló and controlling Puig Brands, owner of Rabanne and Carolina Herrera.

PureHealth

PureHealth is an Abu Dhabi-based healthcare group, the largest healthcare provider in the United Arab Emirates, operating hospitals, clinics, laboratories, and insurance services since its founding in 2006.

Que Azcona family

The Que Azcona family owns Mercury Drug, the Philippines' largest drugstore chain, founded by Mariano Que in Manila in 1945 and now led by the third generation.

Quek Leng Chan

Quek Leng Chan, also known as Guo Linggan (郭令灿), is a Malaysian banker who built Hong Leong Bank in Kuala Lumpur and co-founded Hong Leong Company (Malaysia) in 1963.

Quek Leng Chye

Quek Leng Chye, born 1944, is a Singapore property executive serving as managing director of Hong Leong Holdings, the property arm of the Hong Leong Group.

R. Budi Hartono

R. Budi Hartono, also known as Robert Budi Hartono, is an Indonesian tycoon who co-owns the Djarum cigarette company and became Bank Central Asia's controlling shareholder in 2026.

Rabia Dadabhoy

Rabia Dadabhoy is a Pakistani businesswoman and named shareholder of the Dadabhoy Group of Companies, a Karachi family group, serving as a director of its investments and housing firms.

Radovan Vítek

Radovan Vítek is a Czech real-estate billionaire, founder and primary shareholder of CPI Property Group, holding about 89 percent of its shares through the Vitek Trusts.

Rafael del Pino (Spanish businessman)

Rafael del Pino y Moreno (1920–2008) was a Spanish civil engineer who founded Ferrovial in 1952, chaired it for 48 years, and handed control to his son Rafael in 2000.

Rafael del Pino Calvo-Sotelo

Rafael del Pino Calvo-Sotelo, born in Madrid in 1958, is a Spanish businessman who has chaired Ferrovial since 2000, leading its purchase of Heathrow's owner BAA in 2006 and its 2024 Nasdaq listing.

Rajesh R. Mandawewala

Rajesh R. Mandawewala is an Indian businessman and qualified chartered accountant who serves as Executive Vice Chairman of Welspun World, holding company of the Mumbai-based Welspun Group.

Ramachandran Ottapathu

Ramachandran Ottapathu, known as Ram, is a Botswana-based retail executive and chartered accountant who has served as chief executive of Choppies, Botswana's largest retail chain, since 2004.

Ramez Al Khayyat

Ramez Al-Khayyat is a Qatari entrepreneur of Syrian origin who co-founded Power International Holding in Doha in 2011 with his brothers, and serves as its President and Group CEO.

Ramon S. Ang

Ramon S. Ang is a Filipino businessman who has been Chairman and CEO of San Miguel Corporation, one of the Philippines' largest conglomerates, since 2024.

Ransa

Ransa is a Peruvian third-party logistics company founded in 1939 as a cotton warehousing firm, now operating as Grupo Ransa in 12 Latin American countries, majority owned by H.I.G. Capital since 2021.

Rawabi Holding

Rawabi Holding (مجموعة روابي القابضة) is a diversified Saudi conglomerate founded by the Al-Turki family in 1980 and headquartered in Al Khobar, focused on energy services, contracting, and industrial services.