How Family Businesses Have Fared in the Late 'noughties'
Estimates from the Department of Trade and Industry showed that at the start of 2006, there were 4.47 million private sector enterprises in the UK, including...
Adrian Maxwell, Fracino Family Run Coffee Company: A Case Study
Adrian Maxwell MD of Fracino, a family run coffee machine manufacturing business based in Birmingham, claims that when he was growing up, his favourite toys...
The Achievements of Women in Family Businesses
The traditional women’s role of mother, housewife and social companion are now completely out of date and women have achieved success in their own right, b...
What Are the Advantages of a Family Business?
If you’re considering starting up a business with other members of your family, or perhaps joining your family business that’s already established, there...
How to Spot and Avoid Conflict in a Family Business
Family run businesses make up the largest number of firms in the UK, according to a report published by the Institute for Family Business. This creates a pot...
Tips from Entrepreneur Ron Holland: Power of the Mind in Creating a Family Business
Whether the family business is a start-up or a mature business it will gain substantially by forming a harmonious, mastermind alliance that comes together on...
The Environment and a Family Business
An average small office based company in the UK has an average annual energy bill of around £2,100 but could be wasting over £400 of this every year by usi...
Crisis Management Systems for a Family Business
Every business can find itself in a crisis. This can take many forms from internal issues with family members, to a commercial crisis that is impacting on th...
Recession Proof Your Family Business
In a downturn a family business must make sometimes radical changes to its operation to ensure it survival until a recession comes to an end. With the credit...
How to Franchise a Family Business
Business expansion can be a natural consequence of a successful enterprise. For a family business one of the most cost effective ways of business expansion i...