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Whitney MacMillan
Whitney MacMillan (1929–2020) was an American businessman who served as chairman and CEO of Cargill from 1976 to 1995, the last family member to run the firm.
Widjaja family
The Widjaja family is a Chinese-Indonesian business dynasty behind the Sinar Mas Group, built by patriarch Eka Tjipta Widjaja, who died in 2019 at age 98.
Wijono Tanoko
Wijono Tanoko, born 1952 in Malang, East Java, is an Indonesian businessman who has led Avian Brands, Indonesia's largest decorative paints company, as President Director since 1996.
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 Clay Ford Sr.
William Clay Ford Sr. (1925–2014) was a grandson of Henry Ford who served on Ford Motor Company's board for 57 years and owned the Detroit Lions for half a century.
William George Armstrong
William George Armstrong (1810–1900) was a Newcastle upon Tyne engineer and industrialist who founded the Elswick works in 1847 and created the Armstrong breech-loading gun.
William Ling (Brazilian businessman)
William Ling is a Brazilian businessman of the Ling family of Porto Alegre, founder and president of Instituto Ling and a board member of Évora S.A. and Fitesa S.A.
William Procter (candle maker)
William Procter (1801–1884) was an English-born candle maker in Cincinnati, Ohio, who co-founded Procter & Gamble with his brother-in-law, the soap maker James Gamble, in 1837.
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.
William W. Cargill
William Wallace Cargill (1844–1909) was an American grain merchant who founded Cargill in 1865 with a grain warehouse in Conover, Iowa, and built a network of more than 100 grain elevators.
WIPHOLD
WIPHOLD is a South African investment holding company established in 1994 by four black women, acting as a pioneering BEE vehicle to integrate black women into the mainstream economy.
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.
Y.K. Almoayyed & Sons
Y.K. Almoayyed & Sons is a diversified Bahraini family business group founded in 1940, employing over 8,000 people and representing more than 300 international brands.
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.
Yapı Kredi
Yapı Kredi is a private commercial bank headquartered in Istanbul, Turkey. Founded by Kazım Taşkent in 1944, it is one of Turkey's largest private banks.
Yarur Group
The Yarur Group is a Chilean family business group based in Santiago, centered on Banco de Crédito e Inversiones (Bci), Chile's largest bank by assets.
Yasseen Mansour
Yasseen Mansour (ياسين منصور) is an Egyptian businessman who has chaired Palm Hills Developments since 2005 and sits on the board of the Mansour Group founded by his father.
Yasser Zaghloul
Yasser Zaghloul is an Egyptian-born engineering executive who joined NMDC in Abu Dhabi in 1998 and has led NMDC Group as Group CEO since 2009, expanding it internationally.
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.
Yinhu Wang
Yinhu Wang (银湖网) was a Beijing-based peer-to-peer lending platform launched in 2014 by the listed company Panda Fireworks, later Panda Financial Control, and investigated from 2019.
Youssef Mansour
Youssef Mansour, born in Alexandria in 1945, is an Egyptian billionaire businessman who chairs the Mansour Group and oversees its consumer goods division, including Metro supermarkets.
Yousuf Khalil Almoayyed
Yousuf Khalil Almoayyed (1918–1996) was a Bahraini merchant who founded the trading house Y.K. Almoayyed & Sons in Manama in 1940 and was among the first to import refrigerators into Bahrain.
Yousuf M.A. Naghi & Sons Group
Yousuf M.A. Naghi & Sons Group is a family-owned Saudi conglomerate based in Jeddah since 1911, operating in FMCG distribution, automotive, transportation, logistics, and financial services.
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.