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Collis P. Huntington
Collis P. Huntington (1821–1900) was an American railroad magnate who co-founded the Central Pacific Railroad as one of the Big Four and founded Newport News Shipbuilding in 1886.
Colomer Barrigón family
The Colomer Barrigón family is a Spanish property dynasty based in Madrid that owns Pryconsa, one of Spain's largest private residential developers, and the socimi Saint Croix.
Concha y Toro
Concha y Toro is a Chilean winery founded by Melchor Concha y Toro in 1883 at Pirque near Santiago, now Chile's largest wine producer and exporter.
Conoil
Conoil is a Nigerian oil marketing company controlled by Mike Adenuga, tracing its operations to 1927 as a Shell marketing business and renamed Conoil in 2003.
Consolidated Contractors Company
Consolidated Contractors Company is a family-owned engineering and construction group founded by Palestinian entrepreneurs in Beirut in 1952 and headquartered in Athens since 1974, long described as the Middle East's largest contractor.
Consorcio Financiero
Consorcio Financiero is a Chilean financial holding company operating in life insurance, banking, and investments, tracing to an insurer founded in 1916 and controlled by Chilean families since 1997.
Consultatio
Consultatio is an Argentine real estate development company founded in 1991 by Eduardo F. Costantini and based in Buenos Aires, best known for creating the Nordelta gated city-town.
Coromandel International
Coromandel International is an Indian agri-inputs company and Murugappa Group flagship, incorporated in 1961, that makes phosphatic fertilizers and crop protection chemicals and runs over 1,200 agri-retail stores.
CorpGroup
CorpGroup is a Chilean holding and family business group founded by economist Álvaro Saieh, based in Santiago and built around banking, insurance, retail, and media, including CorpBanca, SMU, and Copesa.
Corporación América
Corporación América is an Argentine business group founded by Eduardo Eurnekian, headquartered in Buenos Aires and active in airports, energy, agribusiness, wine, and construction; its airport arm operates 52 airports in six countries.
Corporación Dinant
Corporación Dinant is a family-owned Honduran conglomerate founded by Miguel Facusse Barjum in Tegucigalpa in 1960, known for snacks and palm oil and for land conflict in the Bajo Aguán valley.
Coscharis Group
Coscharis Group is a Nigerian conglomerate founded by Cosmas Maduka in 1977, holding Nigerian franchises for BMW, Ford, and Rolls-Royce; the name combines his and Charity's names.
Cosmas Maduka
Cosmas Maduka is a Nigerian businessman who founded the Coscharis Group in 1977 with N300, growing it from auto spare parts into a multinational with sole Nigerian franchises for BMW, Rolls-Royce, and Ford.
CPI Property Group
CPI Property Group is a real estate group founded by Radovan Vítek in 1991 in the Czech Republic, with a €18.0 billion property portfolio and Frankfurt-listed shares.
Craig Irvine
Craig Irvine is a Southern African poultry executive and Group CEO of Irvine's Group, a family-owned integrated poultry producer operating across Zimbabwe, Botswana, Mozambique, South Africa, and beyond.
Credicorp
Credicorp is a Bermuda-incorporated financial holding company, listed in Lima and New York, whose main subsidiary is Banco de Crédito del Perú, Peru's largest bank by loans and deposits.
Crescent Group (Sharjah family business group)
Crescent Group is a diversified family business group headquartered in Sharjah, United Arab Emirates, founded in 1971 by Hamid Jafar and anchored by Crescent Petroleum, the region's oldest private oil and gas company.
CT Corp
CT Corp (PT CT Corpora) is a diversified Indonesian business group founded and chaired by Chairul Tanjung in 1987, active in financial services, media, retail, property, and natural resources.
Cyrela Brazil Realty
Cyrela Brazil Realty is one of Brazil's largest residential real estate developers, founded by Elie Horn in 1962, headquartered in São Paulo, and listed on the B3 exchange.
Cyrus S. Eaton
Cyrus S. Eaton (1883–1979) was a Canadian-born American financier and industrialist who built a utilities, steel, and railroad empire from Cleveland and financed the first Pugwash conferences on nuclear disarmament.
D&L Industries
D&L Industries is a Philippine manufacturer of customized food ingredients, specialty plastics, and oleochemicals, founded by brothers Dean and Leon Lao in 1963 and listed on the Philippine Stock Exchange since 2012.
Dadabhai Group
The Dadabhai Group is a family-owned Bahraini conglomerate headquartered in Manama, founded in 1950 by Ahmed Ali Dadabhai and active in construction, real estate, and hospitality.
Dadabhoy Group of Companies
The Dadabhoy Group of Companies is a Karachi-based Pakistani family business group, founded by cotton trader Abdul Ghani Dadabhoy, spanning cement, sanitary ware, insurance, and housing.
DAMAC Group
DAMAC Group is a private, family-owned Dubai conglomerate founded in 1982 by Hussain Sajwani, whose property arm DAMAC Properties is among Dubai's largest private developers.
Dang Khac Vy
Đặng Khắc Vỹ (Dang Khac Vy) is a Vietnamese businessman who co-founded Vietnam International Bank (VIB) and chairs Mareven Food Holdings, a Russian instant-noodle producer.
Dangote Cement
Dangote Cement is a Nigerian cement manufacturer and the largest producer in sub-Saharan Africa, with about 55 million tonnes of annual capacity across 11 African countries.
Dangote Petroleum Refinery
The Dangote Petroleum Refinery is a petroleum refinery in the Lekki Free Trade Zone near Lagos, Nigeria, the largest in Africa at 650,000 barrels per day.
Daniel Tsai
Daniel Tsai (蔡明忠), born 1956, is a Taiwanese financier who chairs the Fubon Group, Taiwan Mobile, and momo.com, and is vice chairman of Fubon Financial Holding.
Daonapa Patcharachai
Daonapa Patcharachai, earlier romanized as Daonapa Petampai or Petchermpai, is a Thai businesswoman who co-founded Muangthai Capital in 1992 and was named Thailand's wealthiest woman by Forbes in 2026.
David Peñaloza Alanís
David Peñaloza Alanís (born 1974) is a Mexican businessman who leads Pinfra, a toll road and infrastructure operator, and is worth an estimated $2.7 billion.