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Succession breeds success

Handing control of a family business over to the next generation is perhaps the biggest challenge facing any family business, and the way it is handled decides if a company will thrive or fail.

8 July, 2011 01:58 PM

Katie Barker

Handing control of a family business over to the next generation is perhaps the biggest challenge facing any family business, and the way it is handled decides if a company will thrive or fail. Katie Barker, with an eye on 50 editions of FB, speaks to a number of family business luminaries on how they have dealt with succession.

A cut above

Few family businesses produce a product so appreciated that the Museum of Modern Art in New York keeps one in its collection. Not only is the Swiss army knife a design icon, but the company that makes them has a unique corporate structure that keeps everyone happy.

6 July, 2011 03:59 PM

David Bain

Few family businesses produce a product so appreciated that the Museum of Modern Art in New York keeps one in its collection. Not only is the Swiss army knife a design icon, but the company that makes them has a unique corporate structure that keeps everyone happy.

From rubber to hedge funds: the Manuli family story

16 March, 2011 02:20 PM

The Manuli family made its first fortune in rubber and industrials, now the second generation are diversifying into spas and hedge funds. Second generation Antonello Manuli tells Campden FB about the transition

Constructing families

16 March, 2011 02:13 PM

Katie Barker

Construction might not be an area a family business would want to be in during a credit crisis – after all didn’t the crisis start with a collapse in the US property market? Katie Barker takes a look at how family businesses in the sector are coping

Succession top in mind for Italian “royal family” head

8 March, 2011 01:43 PM

John Elkann, fifth-generation chairman of the founding Fiat family, has revealed how he attempts to balance his work burdens with raising a family and carefully exposing his young children to the family business.