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How Succession can Make or Break a Family Business – FBUK in the FT.com
April 10, 2024
Family Business UK, and a number of our Family Business members, were delighted to be quoted, and featured in an article in today’s (9th April 2024) Financial Times article: How Succession can make or break a family business. To read the article, please log into the Financial Times.com, using your FT.com account, at – https://on.ft.com/3vz9VWl […]
FBUK Announce strategic partnership with Saxton Bampfylde
March 28, 2024
Family Business UK are delighted to announce a new corporate partnership with executive search and leadership advisory experts Saxton Bampfylde launching today, Thursday 28th March 2024. FBUK has established partnerships with carefully selected and highly respected organisations, that provide compelling professional services to family businesses. They are critical allies and supporters of our work with […]
FBUK announces strategic partnership with Redgrave
March 27, 2024
Family Business UK are delighted to announce a new corporate partnership with executive search and leadership advisory experts, Redgrave Search launching today, Wednesday 27th March 2024. Family Business UK has established partnerships with carefully selected and highly respected organisations, that provide compelling professional services to family businesses. They are critical allies and supporters of our […]
Historic London family businesses play host to FBUK Community
March 8, 2024
The FBUK Non-Family Executive Community were delighted and grateful to be hosted by community members Emma Fox, CEO of Berry Bros. & Rudd and Ben Dalrymple, MD at Lock & Co Hatters this past week. The evening started with a tour of the two iconic family businesses, neighbours on London’s historic St James’s Street. At Berry Bros. & Rudd, the […]
Discussing Family & Non-family NED’s in Family Business with Deloitte
March 7, 2024
Last month we were delighted to be hosted by FBUK Partners Deloitte in Manchester to discuss the important role of Non-Executive Directors (NEDs) as well as some key differences between family and non-family NEDs. Starting the session by tackling some common preconceptions, the presentation then went on to highlight 3 significant attributes which make NEDs […]
Family Business UK response to Spring Budget 2024
March 6, 2024
Fiona Graham, Chief Advocacy Officer at Family Business UK responding to the Spring Budget said: “With challenges facing them on multiple fronts, the family business community has been waiting on tenterhooks about what support the Chancellor would offer to help kickstart the economy. “While there were incremental improvements on full expensing and VAT thresholds, sadly […]
Family Business UK Spring Budget Submission 2024
February 27, 2024
In the UK, we are sitting on an enormous resource of entrepreneurialism in the form of our family business sector. Family businesses make up 90 per cent of the UK’s total private sector firms, employing 14 million people and contributing over £200 billion through tax receipts each year alone. Now more than ever, the Prime […]
Family Business UK Joins New Small Business Council
February 22, 2024
Family Business UK attended the first meeting of the new Small Business Council in Downing Street today, as the Government looks to remove barriers to growth faced by SMEs. Chaired by Small Business Minister, Kevin Hollinrake, the Council will work alongside the PM’s Business Council to tackle the key issues facing smaller firms. The Council […]