His early life typified the upbringing of those from the industrial dynasties who would come to dominate Japan between the two world wars and beyond.
He discovered bleaching powder and founded an industrial dynasty.
Companies Ford Motor indicated that William Clay Ford Jr. would lead the next generation of the company, the nation's most powerful industrial dynasty.
Born in Arcachon in 1954, Balsan was part of France's upper class as a member of the Wendel family, an industrial dynasty.
He was the eldest son of Nikita Demidov and increased the family fortune, raising it to one of Russia's most important industrial dynasties.
Two German industrial dynasties, one of Jewish bankers and a founder of a chemical empire.
As Fiat and the other industrial dynasties that dominated postwar Italy have declined, Armani has thrived.
The Berettas claim to be the world's oldest industrial dynasty.
In recent decades, members of several industrial dynasties have spent parts of their fortunes on a conservative agenda.
The industrial dynasty of Poensgen settled in Oberbilk in the 1860s.
