Armen Petrossian, the world's leading distributor of caviar, is Armenian.

Monaco, MONACO: Armen Petrossian poses 19 May 2006 in front of his new restaurant in Monaco. Petrossian, the world's leading distributor of caviar, is to expand its cafe-bar empire by selling gourmet fish eggs in China and Russia, whose increasingly wealthy populations have a penchant for luxury goods. Petrossian currently owns two restaurants, in Paris and New York, and five boutiques, in the French cities of Paris and Lyon as well as New York, Los Angeles and Las Vegas in the United States. The family-run business, founded in Paris by the current president's Armenian father and uncle, Moucheg and Melkoum, last year posted sales totalling 40 million euros (48 million dollars), half of which were earned outside France, mainly in the United States. AFP PHOTO JACQUES MUNCH (Photo credit should read JACQUES MUNCH/AFP/Getty Images)