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Sheng Siong Group
Sheng Siong Group (升菘集团) is a Singaporean supermarket chain founded by the Lim brothers in 1985 and listed on the Singapore Exchange since 2011, the country's second-largest behind NTUC FairPrice.
Sherif Beshara
Sherif Beshara is an Emirati-based business executive who has served as Group CEO of Mohamed & Obaid AlMulla Group, parent of American Hospital Dubai, since 2018.
Shikha Sharma
Shikha Sharma is an Indian banker who was managing director and CEO of ICICI Prudential Life from 2000 to 2009 and of Axis Bank from 2009 to 2018.
Shin Kyuk-ho
Shin Kyuk-ho, known in Japan as Takeo Shigemitsu, was a Korean businessman who founded the Lotte Group, starting with chewing gum in Japan in 1948.
Sigdo Koppers
Sigdo Koppers is one of Chile's largest business groups, founded in 1960, supplying mining and industry from plants in 16 countries, with 65% of 2025 revenue earned abroad.
Signa Holding
Signa Holding is an Innsbruck-based Austrian real estate and retail holding company founded by René Benko, whose 2023 collapse became the largest insolvency in Austrian history.
Simon Taylor (planter)
Simon Taylor (1739–1813) was a Jamaican sugar planter, slave owner, and politician who claimed ownership over 2,248 enslaved people and was among the richest men in the British empire.
Sinar Mas (Eka Tjipta Widjaja and the Widjaja family fortune)
Sinar Mas is the Indonesian business fortune of Eka Tjipta Widjaja, who began selling biscuits in Makassar in 1938 and built pulp, paper, palm oil, and finance companies.
Sinar Mas Group
Sinar Mas Group is an Indonesian diversified conglomerate founded by Eka Tjipta Widjaja in 1938, operating through more than 400 companies including Asia Pulp & Paper.
Sipho Nkosi
Sipho Nkosi, born 1954, is a South African businessman who founded Eyesizwe Coal, led coal producer Exxaro Resources until 2016, and co-chairs the investment group Talent10 Holdings.
Sirivadhanabhakdi family
The Sirivadhanabhakdi family is a Thai business dynasty founded by Charoen Sirivadhanabhakdi, whose TCC Group owns Thai Beverage, maker of Chang beer, and Fraser and Neave.
SM Group
SM Group, also known as the Samra Midas group, is a South Korean business group founded in 1988 by builder Woo Oh-hyun, centered on construction and shipping.
Société des Avions Marcel Bloch
The Société des Avions Marcel Bloch was a French aircraft maker founded by Marcel Bloch in Paris in 1929, nationalized in 1937 and reborn as Dassault.
Société Immobilière du Cameroun
The Société Immobilière du Cameroun (SIC) is Cameroon's state-controlled real-estate and social-housing company, created in 1952, 92% owned by the State, and the country's principal social landlord.
Sodiê Doces
Sodiê Doces is a Brazilian franchise chain of artisanal cakes founded in 1997 by Cleusa Maria da Silva, with about 400 stores in Brazil and two in Orlando.
Soledad Oppen-Cojuangco
Soledad Oppen-Cojuangco, known as Gretchen, is a Filipina heiress who inherited the fortune of her late husband Eduardo "Danding" Cojuangco Jr., the longtime San Miguel Corporation chairman who died in 2020.
Solidere
Solidere, formally the Lebanese Company for the Development and Reconstruction of Beirut Central District, is a real estate company created in 1994 to rebuild downtown Beirut after the civil war.
Sorabji Pochkhanawala
Sir Sorabji Pochkhanawala (1881–1937) was a Parsi banker in Bombay who founded the Central Bank of India in 1911, the first Indian commercial bank wholly owned and managed by Indians.
South African Pulp
South African Pulp, abbreviated SA Pulp and renamed Sappi Limited in 1973, is a South African pulp and paper company founded in Johannesburg in 1936.
Southern Roadways
Southern Roadways (Southern Roadways Private Ltd.) was a Madurai-based road freight and parcel carrier of the TVS group, founded in 1946 by T.V. Sundaram Iyengar.
Spear REIT Limited
Spear REIT Limited is a South African real estate investment trust founded in 2011 and listed on the JSE in 2016, investing predominantly in Western Cape property, with assets of about R8.4 billion by 2026.
Square Group
Square Group is a Bangladeshi family-founded conglomerate anchored by Square Pharmaceuticals, the country's largest pharmaceutical manufacturer, founded by Samson H. Chowdhury in 1958 and the industry leader since 1985.
Sri Prakash Lohia
Sri Prakash Lohia, born 1952 in Kolkata, is an Indonesian petrochemical and fertilizer tycoon who founded Indorama Corporation with his father and is among Indonesia's richest people.
Stephen Catlin
Stephen Catlin is a British insurance entrepreneur who founded Catlin Underwriting Agencies at Lloyd's in 1984, built the Bermuda-based Catlin Group, and co-founded Convex in 2019.
Sudhir Ruparelia
Sudhir Ruparelia, born 1956, is a Ugandan business magnate and founder of the Ruparelia Group, a Kampala conglomerate spanning real estate, hotels, education, and insurance.
Sudono Salim
Sudono Salim, born Liem Sioe Liong, was a Chinese-Indonesian tycoon who migrated from Fujian in 1938 and built Salim Group, Indonesia's largest conglomerate, which collapsed after Suharto fell in 1998.
Suhail Bahwan Group (Omani conglomerate)
Suhail Bahwan Group is a family-owned Omani conglomerate headquartered in Muscat, founded in 1965 as a trading enterprise at Muttrah and now one of Oman's largest private companies.
Suhail Salem Bahwan
Suhail Salem Bahwan, also rendered Sheikh Suhail Salim Bahwan, was an Omani businessman who founded the Suhail Bahwan Group, one of Oman's largest private conglomerates, in 1965.
Sukanto Tanoto
Sukanto Tanoto (陈江和), also known as Chen Jianghe, is an Indonesian-born, Singapore-based billionaire who founded and chairs Royal Golden Eagle, a pulp, palm oil, and energy group.
Sultan Al Jaber
Sultan Al Jaber is an Emirati executive who leads the oil company ADNOC, serves as UAE Minister of Industry and Advanced Technology, and founded the renewable-energy company Masdar.