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PwC’s 11th Global Family Business Survey

Friday, 05 May 2023

PwC’s Family Business Survey 2023 comes at a time of great change. The optimism of a post-covid world has been sorely tested by the geopolitical

 

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A guide to family business succession planning

Friday, 11 February 2022

Succession planning is one of the most sensitive issues, and COVID-19 appears to have concentrated minds in this area.   Topics such as

 

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Tánaiste and Minister Donohoe launch new €90m fund for Irish start-ups

Thursday, 10 February 2022

The Tánaiste and Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment, Leo Varadkar TD and the Minister for Finance, Paschal Donohoe TD launched a new

 

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New research has found that family businesses in the UK are no longer being passed down to the third generation, according to the 'Second Generation Family SMEs in the UK' report compiled by Barclays and CEBR.

 

The report states that three in five UK adults would want to pass on a family business to the younger generation in their family if they had the opportunity, however 23% of those over 55 feared that the younger generation would not want to inherit it.

 

(ref: The Telegraph http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/festival-of-business/10913013/Family-businesses-on-the-wane.html)