Did you know that less than 3% of family-owned businesses make it to the fourth generation? As a fourth-generation, family-owned...

The Wates Group is over a century old, and one of the country’s most prominent family firms and has evolved over time as it continues to...

The JW Lees brewing business goes back as far as 1828, when John Lees started up a brewery as – in effect – a hobby business, after a lifetime as a cotton mill owner in Oldham and Manchester. In the 190 years since then, the business has grown, diversified, reorganised, and weathered wars, both inside and out. As William Lees-Jones, its current MD says, “by the time my father joined in 1958 the firm was struggling – like lots of post-war family businesses, it had nearly been