Tomba was born into comfortable circumstances in Lazzaro di Savenna, a suburb of Bologna, the son of a textile wholesaler.

In 1945 he joined a textile wholesaler in Kanazawa run by his wife's brother, but business was poor.

James Morrison, great-grandfather of the first Baron, was a Hampshire innkeeper's son who became the greatest textile wholesaler in England and a prominent merchant banker.

There, her mother is the president of Riviera, a commercial real estate company, and her father is the chairman of Rafael Kichic, a textile wholesaler.

His father is a co-owner of Best Plastics and Fabrics, textile wholesalers in Brooklyn.

Hall came to Canada in 1957 and worked as a textile wholesaler.

He was born in Kyoto to a family of textile wholesalers who had operated the business since the Edo period.

Yoshino was born in Takasaki city, Gumma prefecture, as the second son in a family of textile wholesalers.

Keiichi Tanaami was born in 1936 as the eldest son of a textile wholesaler in Tokyo.

Her father is a textile wholesaler in Garden City.