Fortune European Businessman of the Year

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Fortune magazine gives an annual award for the person it considers to be the European Businessman of the Year. Fortune is based in the United States, but it has a European edition which features this award prominently. Currently the award is announced in January for the preceding calendar year. Other organisations also issue similar awards.

[edit] Recipients

This list is incomplete.

• 2007 Robert Polet Dutch CEO of the Gucci Group
• 2006 Gerard Kleisterlee Dutch CEO of Philips
• 2005
• 2004 Lakshmi Mittal British based Indian CEO/majority owner of Mittal Steel Company N.V..
• 2003 Terry Leahy - British CEO of retailer Tesco.
• 2002
• 2001 Michael O'Leary - Irish CEO of budget airline Ryanair.