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Rihanna is the world’s wealthiest female musician, primarily due to her income from Fenty .
Germany Comcast Ranked 28 in the 2020 Fortune 500
A refugee from Nazi Germany and an orphan, Daniel Aaron helped Comcast become the largest cable company in the United States
Iran Life Time Fitness, Inc.
Akradi’s personal philosophy of fitness and well-being has made Life Time Fitness unique and successful.
Germany Anheuser-Busch Companies, Inc.
Busch was one of 22 children in his family.
Canada The Hillshire Brands Company
In 1944, TIME named Nathan Cummings “Duke of Groceries.”
France DuPont de Nemours Ranked 152 in the 2020 Fortune 500
DuPont was an early “transnational” business relying on knowledge, equipment and capital raised in France.
Pakistan Edible Arrangements
Tariq Farid started his first successful business at age 17.
Ireland Procter & Gamble Ranked 50 in the 2020 Fortune 500
Procter and Gamble were brothers-in-law married to a pair of sisters. They might never have met if fate had not intervened.
Helen Greiner’s love of robots started with R2D2 in Star Wars .
Turkey New England Coffee Company
Menelaos Kaloyanides started his career at the Automat in New York City.
Canada Kraft Heinz, Mondelez International Ranked 122 and 117 in the 2020 Fortune 500
Kraft Foods started as a one-man business selling cheese with a horse and wagon.
Ukraine PayPal Ranked 182 in the 2020 Fortune 500
Levchin sought asylum in the United States from the Soviet-controlled Ukraine.
Scotland Emerson Ranked 176 in the 2020 Fortune 500
Emerson sold the first electric fans in America, invented by two orphans from Scotland.
South Africa PayPal and Tesla Ranked 182 and 124 in the 2020 Fortune 500
England Procter & Gamble Ranked 50 in the 2020 Fortune 500
Procter and Gamble were brothers-in-law married to a pair of sisters. They might never have met if fate had not intervened.
Germany Levi Strauss Ranked 495 in the 2020 Fortune 500
Levi’s 501 jeans were born in San Francisco at the hands of two immigrants.
Goya Foods is the largest family-owned Hispanic food company in the United States.
China Pacific Trading International
Mei Xu created Chesapeake Bay Candle, one of the most popular brands in the country, and even worked with First Lady Michelle Obama to design a candle for the White House in 2009.