Felix Fiege

The long haul: Felix Fiege on five generations of logistics

November 14, 2016

Taking a business from one horse-drawn cart to an international logistics firm is no easy task, but that is exactly what Germany’s Fiege family has accomplished over five generations. Michael Finnigan talks to its next-generation leaders about the long haul

Taking a business from one horse-drawn cart to an international logistics firm is no easy task, but that is exactly what Germany’s Fiege family has accomplished over five generations. Michael Finnigan talks to its next-generation leaders about the long haul

To some the origins of Fiege might sound like the classic 1980s British sitcom Only Fools and Horses: an entrepreneurial farmer-cum-businessman fixes a rickety cart to one of his horses in the hope his new “transportation business” will make him a millionaire.

Shortlist announced for the fifth European Families in Business Awards

May 27, 2016

The cream of continental business talent will be celebrated at the fifth annual European Families in Business Awards in Berlin on 21 June.

The cream of continental business talent will be celebrated at the fifth annual European Families in Business Awards in Berlin on 21 June.

Family business leaders and business school experts on the judging panel for CampdenFB have shortlisted the 30 best of the best from more than 250 nominations across six categories. Close to 1,000 companies have been nominated since 2012.

Joined at the hip

October 26, 2011

One of Europe's biggest logistics companies is grooming the management skills of the sons of the two brothers who run the business. Rashmi Kumar asks whether the German company has struck upon the perfect succession plan.

Felix and Jens Fiege could easily be Europe’s poster boys of next- generation family business success.

Cousins Felix and Jens are the fifth generation of the Fiege family to work at the eponymous business, set up more than a century ago by their great-great-grandfather Joan Joseph Fiege in the small town of Greven in the German state of North Rhine-Westphalia.