Family Business

Year-end indulgence: how to pick the best cakes for gifting

Bakers' shelves have a variety of choices: pick what matches the mood of your celebrations

Adani planning to open family office in Dubai or New York to manage wealth

Adani family is currently talking to consultants and tax experts about the plans; location of the office is still in flux, and may change based on the advice they receive and availability of resources

The $14 billion feud that splintered the billionaire Hinduja family

The family has now called a temporary truce, but the long-running and rancorous dispute has put at stake the future governance of the Anglo-Indian empire

Billionaire Hinduja brothers end family feud on pact signed in 2014

The fight among Hinduja brothers was caused because of a pact signed by them in 2014 that said that 'everything belongs to everyone and nothing belongs to anyone'

From Windsors to Kochs and Tatas, 5 rules for family businesses to thrive

Family companies are repositories of family traditions and family loyalties

Managing conflict in family enterprises

The book poses a series of questions and suggests that each family's responses to these will determine the effective way forward that would be most compatible with its objectives and family structures

UAE govt plans to remove monopolies of some family businesses

The UAE aims to attract more investment via competitive legal and social changes, such as long-term residency programmes and fewer restrictions on cohabitation and alcohol

Can biz family trusts ensure smooth succession? Answer lies with Tolstoy

As business families grow larger with the addition of sons and daughters and sons-in-law and daughters-in-law, they drift away and live in their own separate houses

CII, global group to push for sustainability in Indian family businesses

Business chamber and Switzerland-based FBN announce partnership, annual summit.

Hinduja family feud puts their century-old business empire in jeopardy

With dozens of companies, the closely held Hinduja Group employs more than 150,000 people in 38 countries.

A love letter on family businesses

Book review of The Ultimate Family Business Survival Guide

TVS group board of directors give their nod for 'family arrangement'

The restructuring will give each family group complete ownership of businesses they manage while scrapping the holding company

Cartiers took several generations to build trust, reputation: Brickell

'In the Cartiers' case, a few strategic marriages to the next generation of founders brought in funds to the family', said Brickell

Dealing with family businesses

Business partners should take care to understand the family in a family business or they may find family businesses too enigmatic to deal with

Most family business founders in India have no succession plan, says survey

"The STEP 2019 Global Family Business Survey shows that family businesses in different parts of the world are also exposed to these challenges," she added.

India has third highest number of family-owned businesses in the world

The 111 companies have the total market capitalisation of $839 billion

'Unplease' to succeed

Leaders of family-owned businesses must put processes in place for informed decisions