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Family businesses are the backbone of economies the world over. They also face unique issues due to the very nature of their ownership.

Check out the latest articles on some of these issues such as succession planning, employing family members, governance structures, marketing the family brand, family values, remuneration and much more besides.

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A Resounding Scottish Engineering Success Story

Zappshelter has become one of Britain’s most distinctive engineering success stories in the field of industrial shelters

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12 Ways To Positively Impact Employee Engagement

12 Ways To Positively Impact Employee Engagement

How your leaders (and line managers) communicate and behave has a huge impact on the shape of your family business company culture. For...

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How Conversational Capacity Can Improve Workplace Communication

How Conversational Capacity Can Improve Workplace Communication

When people leave organizations, they often cite poor workplace communication as a top reason for moving on. But in the age of the...

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Leaning Into Difference – The Key To Solving Tough Problems

Leaning Into Difference – The Key To Solving Tough Problems

Mahatma Gandhi said that “Honest differences are often a healthy sign of progress” whilst M. Scott Peck observed that “Life is a series...

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What is Conversational Capacity And Why Does It Matter?

What is Conversational Capacity And Why Does It Matter?

“Management’s business is building organizations that work,” says Harvard Business School’s Joan Magretta, and conversational capacity is...

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6 Factors That Comprise A Company’s Culture

6 Factors That Comprise A Company’s Culture

“Corporate culture” is a buzz phrase that’s been going around for over a decade now, though the actual meaning behind this hot topic is...

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Principles To Fire Up Your Digital Marketing

Principles To Fire Up Your Digital Marketing

How can you keep up with the ever-changing requirements of digital marketing? We spoke to Cristina Plamadeala from Toastmasters...

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Text Messaging’s Untapped Potential

Text Messaging’s Untapped Potential

Trillions of texts are sent every day (we’re going to define text messaging as a wide catch-all for SMS and chat apps such as WhatsApp,...

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Growing Your Business The Family Way

Growing Your Business The Family Way

What are the unique challenges and rewards of marketing a family business? Nicola Stamford, a specialist family business marketeer,...

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Speaking Of Families & The Value Of Heritage

Speaking Of Families & The Value Of Heritage

Not all family businesses are alike, and there are multiple ways to highlight their strengths through the brand. Here are four ways to...

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Entrepreneurship And Innovation At The Heart Of Macsween

Entrepreneurship And Innovation At The Heart Of Macsween

Macsween is a third generation family company established as a butchers shop in Edinburgh in the 1950’s. The company has passed down...

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Lessons In Family Business Leadership

Lessons In Family Business Leadership

When it comes to family-run businesses, there’s a common saying that the first generation creates a business, the second builds it and...

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A Journey Of Family Business Discovery

A Journey Of Family Business Discovery

This short film highlights the depth and diversity of Scottish family businesses and our ten day journey of discovery as part of the 2021...

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Family Business United (‘FBU’) is an unparalleled rallying point and voice for the global family business community and an invaluable source of insight into the sector.  FBU is a resource for all, family businesses of all sizes and sectors, and their advisers, helping to raise the profile of the family business sector and to encourage greater awareness of the contribution that family firms make to the global economy through employment, income generation, wealth creation and charitable endeavours.

At FBU, everything we do is about the family business, creating the best resource available to help families in business get access to the resources and support they need to continue their family business journey, wherever it will take them.

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