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Family Business

November 1, 2003

It’s a tough job making underwear fit for a monarch, but Rigby and Peller are the experts

Melanie Stern is Section Editor of Families in Business magazine.

It's a tough job making underwear fit for a monarch, but Rigby and Peller are the experts

Changes in store

November 1, 2003

The Douglas Miller brothers have embarked on an unprecedented expansion programme for their family’s 165 year old store. Despite these changes one thing will remain the same – family succession

Suzy Bibko is Editor in Chief of Families in Business magazine.

The Douglas Miller brothers have embarked on an unprecedented expansion programme for their family's 165 year old store. Despite these changes one thing will remain the same – family succession

Just an old fashioned family business

November 1, 2003

David and Ralph Gold are known commonly as the ‘Porn Barons’ – but behind the headlines, Gold Group International is an exemplary family business model

Melanie Stern Section Editor of Families in Business magazine.

David and Ralph Gold are known commonly as the 'Porn Barons' – but behind the headlines, Gold Group International is an exemplary family business model

David Gold, the UK's most notorious 'Porn Baron', is sharing a nice cup of afternoon tea with me, telling me how much he loves his mum.

Marketwatch

November 1, 2003

Business confidence: boom or bust?
If you've been reading any sort of business news recently, you're likely confused. No one seems quite sure what to make of the economy right now. It's a bit like what we constantly hear about the residential real estate market – house prices seem to be rising and falling in the same location at the same time.

Marketwatch

September 1, 2003

By the time Families In Business readers receive this issue of the magazine, second generation family owner of Korea’s SK Global, Chey Tae Won, will be four months through a three-year jail term he received in June for serious accounting fraud.

Bad dynasties
By the time Families In Business readers receive this issue of the magazine, second generation family owner of Korea's SK Global, Chey Tae Won, will be four months through a three-year jail term he received in June for serious accounting fraud. His actions prompted a new probe by Korea's Fair Trade Commission (FTC) into the country's top six "chaebol", family-owned dynasties, including LG Group and Samsung.

Week at the top

September 1, 2003

Gerard Roche is a Director of the Irish company, Dublin Woollen Mills, a family-run retail business founded in 1888. Gerard has been actively working in the company since 1982. He is married to Angela and they recently had a baby boy, Harry

Monday

In Profile: Barbara Murray

September 1, 2003

There is nothing like working with real family businesses to keep you in touch with the challenges they face

Suzy Bibko is Editor-in-Chief of Families in Business magazine.

There is nothing like working with real family businesses to keep you in touch with the challenges they face

Dr Barbara Murray, founding director of the Centre for Family Enterprise (CFE) at Glasgow Caledonian University in Scotland has recently been appointed as Executive Director of the Family Business Network (FBN). In the coming year, she hopes to awaken the 'sleeping giant' and put into practice what the FBN preaches.

David in a world of Goliaths

September 1, 2003

Despite competing with 75 other brands of water on the Swiss market, Pascal and Nicolas Rouges’ skill and motivation has made sure that Henniez is the second most consumed brand of water in the country

Denise Kenyon-Rouvinez is President and Founder of the Family Business Network Suisse Romande, and Associate of The Family Business Consulting Group.

Despite competing with 75 other brands of water on the Swiss market, Pascal and Nicolas Rouges' skill and motivation has made sure that Henniez is the second most consumed brand of water in the country

A natural success

September 1, 2003

Robert and Alexander Barth discuss the natural progression of their business – and how they became one of the largest, and most respected, soft drinks companies in Switzerland

Suzy Bibko is Editor-in-Chief of Families in Business magazine.

Robert and Alexander Barth discuss the natural progression of their business – and how they became one of the largest, and most respected, soft drinks companies in Switzerland

Local excellence, global reverence

September 1, 2003

It is Switzerland’s oldest and most revered chocolatier with an international reputation for excellence, but remains a one-town operation as part of its strategy to maintain exclusivity.

Melanie Stern is Section Editor of Families in Business magazine.

It is Switzerland's oldest and most revered chocolatier with an international reputation for excellence, but remains a one-town operation as part of its strategy to maintain exclusivity.