Worldwide, our 38 authorized editions span five continents, 25 languages, and thirteen time zones. They all share the same mission: to celebrate corporate capitalism in all its forms.
Businessman Eduardo Bastitta transformed the Buenos Aires-based plaza logística, which he co-founded in 2009, into a thriving $40 million corporate in logistics and centers. Next step: expansion in Uruguay and Colombia.
Forbes Brazil’s new 50 Over 50 list features a hit Brazilian whose careers continue to climb as they age. .
Venture capital investments in Chile rose from $160 million in 2020 to $2. 9 billion in 2021, when two Chilean-born achieved unicorn status: dairy and meat startup NotCo and Uber-owned grocery delivery company Cornershop.
Zhang Lei, CEO of Envision Energy
Envision Energy is on the front page of the newest factor as a member of China’s annual Best Employers list. The largest wind turbine manufacturer in the country at the moment, Envision stands out for its sustainability efforts.
Carlos Garcia Ottati
Kavak, the $8. 7 billion Mexican unicorn, arrives in Colombia, Peru and Chile this year, leveraging the transparency and power of the used car market. CEO Carlos Garcia Ottati co-founded the company in 2016.
Édouard Berg
Ecuador’s “palm king,” Eduardo Berg, runs the family business Danec Industries, the country’s largest manufacturer of palm trees, which are used for oils and cleaning products. The company employs about 5,000 more people and has 90,000 customers.
virginia delalande
The face of the fourth annual edition of Influential Women of Forbes France, Virginie Delalande is deaf by birth, a lawyer and runs Handicapower, a company in which she advises and intervenes on issues similar to disability.
vako turnava
From a team of 3 in 2018, adding founder Vako Turnava, Tbilisi-based startup Sweeft Digital has grown to about 400 workers and $3 million in profits (2021), implementing software progression and consumer marketing teams in ten countries.
Co-founders of Wingcopter
Since 2018, Weiterstadt-based startup Wingcopter has sent drones to 4 continents with medicines and other aids, and added HIV remedies in Malawi. CEO and co-founder Tom Plümmer (center) announced a $42 million fundraiser in June.
melina travlos
In February, the Greek Shipowners’ Union elected its first president, Melina Travlos, president of the motor carrier Neptune Lines. It will prioritize leading the transition of the shipping industry.
kati marton
Kati Marton, a New York-based journalist, tells Forbes Hungary that she fled from her at the age of 8 and from her journalist parents, who reported on war crimes trials and were jailed in 1955 on espionage charges.
Co-founders of unacademy
Gaurav Munjal (center) is tasked with solving the alleged “toxic culture” at his Bangalore check-making startup Unacademy, which has risen to a $3. 4 billion valuation since it debuted as a YouTube channel in 2010. What possibly wouldn’t change: many hours, a condition if you need to make history, he says.
Sandiaga Salahuddin One
Domestic reports and large-scale foreign events, such as the G20 annual meeting, to be held in Bali for the first time in November, are priorities for recovery from the pandemic, says Sandiaga Salahuddin Uno, Indonesia’s Minister of Tourism and Creative Economy.
Noa Tishby
Actress Noa Tishby has worked on the big screen with Hollywood stars Scarlett Johansson and director Michael Bay. She leads Forbes Israel’s Power Women factor for her new role: as Israel’s first special envoy to fight anti-Semitism.
federica minozzi
Iris Ceramica Group, which manufactures porcelain and ceramic tiles, plans to open a new hydrogen plant until the end of the year. Federica Minozzi runs the company, founded by her billionaire father, Romano Minozzi, in 1961.
Yusaku Maezawa
Since 2019, billionaire retailer Yusaku Maezawa has randomly selected another 1,100 people to receive around $9,000 to see if the money would make them happier. He says beneficiaries reported an increase in the average number of hours of operation and positive motivation.
Bulbul Kartanbayeva
Bulbul Kartanbayeva, the first Kazakh to play in North America’s first hockey federation, the professional women’s ice hockey league, in 2019. Today, the 28-year-old pioneer is preparing her country’s next generation for the women’s hockey academy she created in Nur-Sultan.
Inga Pudža
Inga Pudža, a research assistant at the University of Latvia, won a L’Oréal-UNESCO prize for young women scientists last year. She is reading copper molybdate, which adjusts the color based on temperature and can be used to monitor the bloodless vaccine garage.
Nicholas Jerome
L’Oréal CEO Nicolas Hieronimus, who in the past spearheaded the cosmetics giant’s Mexican operations, traveled to Mexico City this year to celebrate the brand’s 60th anniversary. Its 3 big business classes to be informed of the pandemic: “more digital, more fitness and more sustainability”.
Gereltuya Tumengerel
Based in Ulaanbaatar, Uguuj Chikher Boov manufactures more than 120 types of packaged sweets, representing between 60 and 70% of the country’s pastry production. Gereltuya Tumengerel runs the company, which her father bought in 1997.
Central American countries are preparing a mobility and logistics plan that would optimize the industry between 36 ports, adding the Panama Canal. Francisco Lima Mena, secretary general of SIECA, an economic NGO, says the plan may be only regional competitiveness.
Dominique Obando
Peruvian edtech Talently raised a $3 million investment circular last year because it provides education and positioning to Latin American tech talent.
Bartosz Kubik
Ekoenergetyka, a company based in Zielona Góra in western Poland, made a profit of around $35 million in 2021. Co-founder Bartosz Kubik plans to install his vehicle charging stations in the U. S. U. S. next year.
In an assessment of 600,000 companies, Forbes Romania estimates that Amazon’s Romanian development center is one of the largest companies in the country with the rate of expansion, with an average increase of 50% in annual profits over the past decade.
Petra Vlhova
Alpine skiing world champion Petra Vlhova beat Her American rival Mikaela Shiffrin to win Slovakia’s first gold medal in skiing at this year’s Beijing Winter Olympics.
Forbes Africa’s eighth annual list of 30 includes Brett Lyndall Singh (second from left), who studied pediatric medicine in China and founded Alpha and Omega MedTech, a company that created one of South Africa’s first immediate control kits for covid-19.
Four stars from the Forbes Africa 30 Under 30 2022 list.
Ruben Doblas Gundersen
Forbes Spain’s Best Gamers factor highlights Rubén Doblas Gundersen, nicknamed “El Rubius” by fans. The 32-year-old streamer and vlogger from Mijas, in southern Spain, has 40 million subscribers on YouTube, more than global superstars Lady Gaga and Beyoncé.
Syed Basar Shueb
Since taking over as a director of Abu Dhabi’s International Holding Company in 2019, Syed Basar Shueb has diversified his portfolio, raising its percentage value from 27 cents to $75 and making IHC the highest-value company in the UAE.
Liev Schreiber a video call with Ukrainian leaders.
UNITED24, the state-run fundraising platform for the wartime country, has raised more than $144 million from 90 countries since its launch in May. Hollywood actor Liev Schreiber, among other celebrities, has registered as an ambassador for the initiative.