Samuel "Sonny" Gindi (1924–2012) was the co-founder of the Century 21 department store.
[4] In 1959, leveraging his retail experience, he partnered with Alfred Sutton and Morris Sutton,[6][7] he opened the Lolly Togs children's wear business which was the first importer to do business with Hong Kong.
[6] In 1961, he partnered with fellow Sephardic community member and cousin Al Gindi and opened the Century 21 department store[4][9] on Cortlandt Street in lower Manhattan.
[10] At the time of his death, Century 21 had expanded throughout the New York metropolitan area with locations in Westbury, New York, Rego Park, Queens, the Upper West Side of Manhattan, Morristown, New Jersey, Paramus, New Jersey, and on Fulton Street in Brooklyn.
[4] Gindi was a supporter of the United Jewish Appeal and the International Sephardic Education Fund (ISEF) dedicated to “narrow(ing) Israel’s socio-economic gap through higher education for gifted students from disadvantaged backgrounds.”[4] Gindi was a member of the Sha'are Zion synagogue and served on the synagogue's founding committee for several decades.