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The rich get richer...
Cape Town :: South Africa | 2 days ago
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Black Economic Empowerment and small business support, in the view of one owner operating in a rural area, does not serve to foster existing small black-owned family businesses. Mlungisi Matebese is the founder and owner of Matebese Funeral Services,...
Tags: family businesses, owned businesses, Matebese Funeral Services, Mlungisi Matebese, South Africa, Cape Town, Business Finance, Small business, Business models
Plea for councils to do more for family firms
Falkirk :: United Kingdom | 7 days ago
Credibility All 32 Scottish councils will be called on to take part in the national training strategy, which aims to draw together a council's economic development services and professional advisers to better support family-run firms. Business Gateway, which has...
Tags: family businesses, family firms, local authorities, Falkirk Council, United Kingdom, Falkirk, Local government in Scotland, Scotland, Corporate governance, Districts of Scotland, Scottish Enterprise, Business Finance
The CEO and the owner broke up. Now what?
Raleigh :: NC :: USA | 9 days ago
Credibility The news that Los Angeles Dodgers owners Frank and Jamie McCourt are divorcing came with a bitter kick: Team chairman Frank's first move against his soon-to-be-ex was to fire her from her job as the Dodgers' chief executive. Given that nearly 50% of all...
Tags: family businesses, Los Angeles Dodgers, Joseph Carini, Carini Lang, San Diego Padres, Raleigh, Prenuptial agreement, Christian views of divorce, Get, Business Finance, Family law, Divorce, Jamie McCourt
UDB operations hit by poor funding
Kampala :: Uganda | 13 days ago
Credibility He described the competition among banks in Uganda as �challenging.� Kahoza said the high interest rates charged by banks were inevitable due to the high risk factors involved in conducting business in Uganda. UDB was established in 1972 and is one of...
Tags: UDB, Uganda Development Bank, corporate governance, Godfrey Mugurusi, family businesses, James Kahoza, Uganda, Kampala, Governance, Business Finance
Breuer Metal Craftsmen earns award
Madison :: WI :: USA | 6 months ago
Credibility Six family businesses, including Beaver Dam's Breuer Metal Craftsmen, were honored in the sixth annual Wisconsin Family Business of the Year Award banquet held Thursday evening in Madison. Grand awards were presented in three size categories: Large (100+...
Tags: Breuer Metal Craftsmen, family businesses, grand award
Family businesses can cope better with crisis, report says
Muscat :: Oman | 9 months ago
Credibility The unenviable aspects of family businesses like nepotism, infighting and bad organisation have long attracted close scrutiny, but the model is now seen as having certain traits that put it in good stead to weather the current downturn in the global economy...
Tags: family businesses
Corporate leaders to meet at DIFC
Dubai :: United Arab Emirates | about 1 year ago
Credibility Issues in focus will be the impact of the current financial turmoil and the ability of the Middle East region to manage the implications and opportunities of the slump...With the current financial crisis, it is crucial that we bring together the top figures...
Tags: financial, challenges, crisis, economic, finance, family businesses, barack, current financial, financial crisis, obama
Few Middle East family businesses plan to go public
Dubai :: United Arab Emirates | about 1 year ago
Credibility T hough half the businesses agreed that going public was important for their survival, 20 percent opposed the idea while 60 percent remained not committed to the option, according to the survey conducted by consultancy firm Ernst & Young. Called the '1st...
Tags: family businesses, businesses survey, 1st ernst, young family
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