Business
Why are family businesses sometimes so nasty?
The rhetoric around family firms is that they are ethical, but research seems to say that they can be…
Football and family businesses
Peugeot is selling a team that it established in 1928, and a London-based family business goes into battle…
Nut-rage heiress jailed – also Fosun, Bombardier, Tchenguiz and Rothschild
Korean Air's Heather Cho gets a one-year sentence, Nat Rothschild injects $100m into Indonesian coal,…
News round-up: Wallenberg, Koch, Burkhard, Clark, Dejphon
The Wallenberg family ring the changes at Investor, the Koch brothers raise a billion for the 2016 elections,…
Henokiens: the world’s most exclusive club
If you're prepared to wait 200 years you just might just be able to gain membership to this group of…
News round-up: Baxter, Aldi, Li Ka-Shing, Lotte, Cisneros, Turner
Ena Baxter, who turned Baxters soups into a global business, had died aged 90;
News round-up: Maran, Slim, Cho, Bombardier
Kalanithi Maran sells his stake in Indian budget airline SpiceJet.
News round-up: Santander, Market Basket, Polaroid, Adidas
The head of the Spanish bank shores it up, but reduces family exposure;
Greece’s dangerous war on its oligarchs
The Syriza party's populist anti-rich rhetoric might go down well with cash-strapped voters, but there…
Skills drought hits family firms
Several recent surveys have found that recruitment is a huge and growing issue for European family companies.
News round-up: Sika, Steinmetz, Reuben, Murdoch
The Sika saga goes on, as minority shareholders challenge the controlling family's decision to sell out,…
Cavalli is bang on trend
China-facing investors are looking for mid-market fashion houses now that Chinese consumers are becoming…
Angela Merkel won’t let tax kill the Mittelstand
There has been a lot of discussion over just how much a new law on inheritance tax will affect German…