FAMILY BUSINESS

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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Family Business

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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Breaking The Cycle Of Family Business Failures

What does it take to build a successful multigenerational family business? Many of the world’s most enduring companies are family...

The Family & The Business: A Malaysian Perspective

Check out the latest research into the dynamics and relationships in family firms in Malaysia. Entitled ‘The Family & The Business,’ this...

We Do – Couples in Business, The Birth Of A Family Business?

An important segment of family businesses is spouses in business together or copreneurs. Copreneurs share the ownership and management...

Validate The Values When Considering Succession

Trust, communication and identity are values that need to be considered when selecting a successor. Research confirms that only about...

Managing Your Own Transition In The Family Firm

Christian Weber is the CEO of Karslberg Brauerei in Germany and shares an insight into taking the helm, although there was a time when it...

How To Resolve Conflicts In Your Family Firm

Conflict happens in any enterprise. However, when your co-workers are also your family, conflict can take on new levels of complication...

Respect For Traditions In The Gulf Region

Respect is the cornerstone for all work with families. Each family has its own culture and each part of the world has its own culture. We...

Hitting The Sweet Spot In Japan

Châteraisé Holdings produces and sells Japanese confectionery as well as Western-style cakes and pastries, which it produces in its own...

Does Education Make The Grade?

With increasing competition for jobs and an apparent ever-rising need to achieve the best grades, does education actually deliver...

The Proof Is Really In The Pudding

Tere Cazola is named after its founder. She started making Mexican desserts and cakes in her kitchen back in the 1980s, and now they’re...

Managing The Growing Shareholder Base In The Family Firm

As family businesses passes from one generation to the next, there is the inevitability that the number of shareholders will increase....

A Family Business With Real Family Values

Apart from excellent employee loyalty, Anderson Maguire have continued to succeed as a family business because we are part of the...

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FBU continues to expand and has a growing membership base around the world. Recognised as THE family business champions we have also gained recognition in both of the Top 100 Global Family Business Influencers list compiled by Family Capital. We are also the VOICE of the family business community, celebrating their contribution throughout the UK and beyond.

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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.