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Family business roundup: Kering and Maersk; rumoured division sale at Vossloh

June 7, 2013

Kering completes the sale of two of its Scandinavian businesses; two big shipping families make a deal; Vossloh may sell locomotives division.

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Kering, Francois-Henri Pinault's luxury goods group, has announced that its Redcats subsidiary has completed the sale of two of its Scandinavian brands – internet shopping brand Ellos and home textiles company Jotex – to private equity company Nordic Capital Fund VII.

How to lead your family business out of the crisis

August 27, 2009

Professor Randel Carlock, INSEAD’s Berghmans Lhoist chaired professor in Entrepreneurial Leadership and director, Wendel International Centre for Family Enterprise, outlines strategies to help your family business through the current storm.

In recent months many firms have laid off employees, shelved growth plans and cut budgets as the recession and general pessimism continues to afflict the business world. Amid the deepest and most widespread economic downturn for more than 50 years, international trade is forecast to fall by more than 13% and world economic activity to shrink by 2.7%, according to Paris-based body the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD).