| Western Union's chief executive on how emerging markets are transforming his business.
Richard Petty is one of the great sporting icons, who transformed his business, who takes over an event just by being there, with a black Charlie 1 Horse cowboy hat looming over his bladelike face.
Calling himself a big fish in a small pond, Kenny Yap, chief executive of Qian Hu Corporation, has transformed his business over the past 20 years from near bankruptcy to one of the world's leading exporters of ornamental fish.
Hyman, who transformed his business into the Coffee Bean & Tea Leaf chain, which now has more than 900 locations in 29 countries, died Monday at his home in Camarillo.
Now he was to transform his father's businesses, among them the Philadelphia Inquirer and a couple of racing papers, plus a wire service that sent racing results to bookmakers across the country, into a huge media empire.
Besides transforming his own business, Mr. Anderson went on to influence corporate giants like Wal-Mart.
John T. Lupton, who transformed his family bottling business into a big piece of the Coca-Cola soft drink empire and then helped revitalize his native city, Chattanooga, Tenn., died on Sunday at his home in Lookout Mountain, Tenn.
He is Dimitris Daskalopoulos, a passionate contemporary-art collector who transformed his family's dairy business into the Greek food empire Vivartia.
And more, its success was the spur for Patrick Ricard to set about transforming his father's small business into what today is Pernod Ricard, a conglomerate associated with brands like Chivas Regal, Jameson and Absolut.
By transforming his family-owned vegetable oil business into a global technology powerhouse, Mr. Premji has become the country's richest citizen, with a net worth hovering around $8 billion.
