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Benu Gopal Bangur
Benu Gopal Bangur is an Indian businessman and patriarch of the family that controls Shree Cement, built from Beawar, Rajasthan into India's third largest cement group; he stepped down as chairman in 2022.
Betty T. Ang
Betty T. Ang is a Filipina businesswoman who cofounded Monde Nissin, maker of Lucky Me! noodles and SkyFlakes, in 1979 and has led it as president since.
Bhai Mohan Singh
Bhai Mohan Singh (1917–2006) was an Indian pharmaceutical industrialist who built Ranbaxy Laboratories into one of India's largest drug companies and led it for over four decades.
Bhimji Depar Shah
Bhimji Depar Shah, born in 1931 in Mombasa, is a Kenyan industrialist who founded the Bidco group in 1970 and built it into Kenya's leading edible oil producer.
Bidco Africa
Bidco Africa, also known as Bidco Industries, is a Kenyan family-owned manufacturer of edible oils, soaps, and detergents, founded in 1985 and headquartered in Thika.
Bill Lynch
Bill Lynch was an Irish-born South African transport entrepreneur who joined Imperial Holdings in 1971 and built it into South Africa's largest transport and mobility conglomerate.
Binghatti Holding
Binghatti Holding (بن غطي) is a family-owned real estate developer in Dubai, founded in 2008, best known for branded residences with Bugatti, Mercedes-Benz, and Jacob & Co.
Birla family
The Birla family, also known as the Birlas, is a Marwari Indian business family from Pilani, Rajasthan, whose firm grew into one of India's largest industrial houses.
Bolloré family
The Bolloré family is a French business dynasty founded in Brittany in 1822 as a paper manufacturer, now controlling Bolloré SE through a pyramid of holding companies.
Bradesco
Bradesco, also known as Banco Bradesco, is one of Brazil's largest private banks, founded in Marília, São Paulo, in 1943 by Amador Aguiar and headquartered in Osasco.
Brandon Korff
Brandon Korff is an American real estate developer and media-company heir, a grandson of Sumner Redstone, who co-founded the Miami-based developer Panoply Properties in 2011.
Braulio Iriarte
Braulio Iriarte Goyeneche (1860–1932) was a Navarrese-born Mexican businessman who arrived penniless in 1877, built a bakery empire, and founded Cervecería Modelo, maker of Corona.
Brenninkmeijer family
The Brenninkmeijer family is a Dutch merchant dynasty descended from brothers Clemens and August, who founded the fashion retailer C&A in the Netherlands in 1841.
Bridgestone Tire Co., Ltd.
Bridgestone Tire Co., Ltd. is a Japanese tire manufacturer founded by Shojiro Ishibashi in Kurume, Japan, in 1931, now one of the world's two largest tire makers.
Brijmohan Lall Munjal
Brijmohan Lall Munjal (बृजमोहन लाल मुंजाल; 1923–2015) was an Indian industrialist who founded the Hero Group and made Hero Honda the world's largest two-wheeler maker.
BTG Pactual (André Jacurski, Luiz Cezar Fernandes, Paulo Guedes)
BTG Pactual, also known as Banco BTG Pactual, is a Brazilian investment bank founded in Rio de Janeiro in 1983 by Luiz Cezar Fernandes, André Jakurski, and Paulo Guedes.
BUA Cement
BUA Cement is a Lagos-based, Nigerian Exchange-listed cement producer, the second-largest in Nigeria, formed in 2019 by the merger of CCNN with Obu Cement and controlled by Abdul Samad Rabiu.
Bua Group
BUA Group is a Nigerian conglomerate headquartered in Lagos, founded in 1988 by Abdul Samad Rabiu as a commodity trader, now active in cement, sugar, flour, and rice.
Cadwallader Washburn (American businessman)
Cadwallader Washburn (1818–1882) was an American lawyer and governor of Wisconsin who built the Minneapolis flour-milling firm Washburn Crosby, which became General Mills in 1928.
Calderón family
The Calderón family is a Santiago-based Chilean business family of Sephardic Jewish origin that founded and still controls Ripley Corp, and also founded the Johnson department-store chain.
Calixto Romero Hernández
Calixto Romero Hernández was a Spanish-born merchant who founded a straw-hat trading business in Catacaos, Piura, Peru, in 1888, growing into Grupo Romero, one of Peru's largest family-controlled groups.
Caltagirone S.p.A.
Caltagirone S.p.A. is a Milan-listed Italian industrial holding company, controlled by Francesco Gaetano Caltagirone since 1984, operating in cement, construction, publishing, and real estate through Cementir Holding, Caltagirone Editore, and Vianini Lavori.
Calvin Ford
Calvin Ford is the name of two Americans: a great-great-grandson of Henry Ford who became chairman of Livingston FC in 2025, and a Baltimore boxing trainer.
Cámara Chilena de la Construcción
The Cámara Chilena de la Construcción (CChC) is a Chilean construction trade association founded in 1951, representing over 2,800 firms and controlling a financial group through Inversiones La Construcción.
Campos siblings
The Campos siblings, Jocelyn, Joselito, and Jeffrey, are heirs to Unilab, the leading Philippine drugmaker their father Jose Y. Campos founded in 1945, with a combined net worth Forbes puts at $690 million.
Carabao Group
Carabao Group is a Bangkok-based, Stock Exchange of Thailand–listed holding company best known for Carabao Dang, which overtook Red Bull as Thailand's second-largest energy drink brand.
Carlos Alberto Delano
Carlos Alberto Delano, also known as Carlos Délano, is a Chilean businessman who co-founded the Santiago holding company Empresas Penta in 1986 with Carlos Eugenio Lavín.
Carlos Alberto Sicupira (3G Capital)
Carlos Alberto Sicupira, known as Beto, is a Brazilian billionaire businessman born in 1948 who co-founded 3G Capital and, with Jorge Paulo Lemann and Marcel Telles, controls AB InBev.
Carlos Eugenio Lavín
Carlos Eugenio Lavín is a Chilean businessman who co-founded and co-controlled Empresas Penta, one of Chile's main business groups, and was convicted of tax crimes in 2018.
Carlos March Delgado
Carlos March Delgado is a Spanish banker, grandson of Banca March's founder, who presided over Banca March from 1974 to 2015 and chaired Corporación Financiera Alba.