| The family business, established in 1886, is one of the oldest auctioneering firms in the country. |
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| If I hadn't been so good at the family business I would take up cattle ranching. |
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| As he came of age, the young man displayed little interest in the family business but was attracted to art and literature. |
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| A family business cannot survive for long without a family to run as well as own it. |
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| The removals man today warned that his York family business could now come to an end after more than 50 years. |
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| He was in charge of his family business, a mining company with no interest in politics. |
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| My father has a little family business, a scrap-metal business with a yard and lorry. |
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| Despite the all-consuming nature of running a ski area, the Muellers never pushed their children to get involved with the family business. |
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| William believes that the stability of the family business is dependent on what goes on further down the food chain. |
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| Distilling, like brewing and winemaking, became a family business over the years as monks passed on their knowledge to the peasants. |
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| He qualified as a lawyer but was looking forward to a career in journalism in the family business. |
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| The fourth-generation family business, an unlimited company until three years ago, has been expanding by acquisition. |
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| When he went to prison, he was running a crime family business as the godfather. |
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| He had inherited a fortune from the family business of making drills for oil exploration, then dominated Hollywood as a film director. |
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| A driver convicted of drink-driving in a minibus faces the ruin of his family business unless he wins a Crown Court appeal. |
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| The family business in Rome that makes all the papal vestments has several different sizes prepared. |
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| Kevin will best be remembered as an obliging and jocular butcher who ran the family business at 82 Main Street for 65 years. |
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| Nineteen years later, he is the general manager and gallery director of the family business. |
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| In fact, the only son interested in taking part in the family business is 14-year-old Alain. |
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| We are honoured and privileged to have been chosen, particularly as we are a small, family business. |
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| In 1969 he joined the family business, but in 1996 the group was subject to a hostile takeover and he was ousted from the board. |
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| School age children are being put to work for family business or sent out by their parents to vend in the streets or beg. |
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| He developed his knowledge of horse pedigrees through the family business of breeding mares at their home in Fermoy, Co Cork. |
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| Favouring tweed jackets and silk ties, Don Alvaro, as he was known, became for a while managing director of the family business. |
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| It has come a long way from the days of being a family business selling mobile phones and air time. |
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| The Kingsdown-based family business is providing the ale at its hostelries across Wiltshire, Gloucestershire, Oxfordshire and Berkshire. |
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| All these animals were pets apart from the two work horses which pulled the trap to town to take my father to work in the family business. |
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| Put off by bickering between his father and uncle over the family business, Alan went his own way. |
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| Prior to the separation, the wife worked full time in the husband's family business. |
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| These principles have governed his approach in growing the family business tenfold. |
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| But, in making a decision about greening your family business, factors other than political correctness should be considered. |
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| This family business wanted an edge on the competition in a booming market. |
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| For the first time, she really tasted the rawness, the exhaustion, and the exhilaration of the family business. |
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| Bacup-based Mawsons, an 80-year-old family business, has started producing the old fashioned cordials dandelion and burdock, cream soda and sarsaparilla once more. |
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| A frequent advantage to a family business is a natural element of trust that it engenders. |
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| It was a real family business with fathers and sons working together. |
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| For example, if they've lost their job, perhaps the family business can hire them for a period or for a special project. |
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| A bitter family feud forms the backdrop of oppression proceedings relating to a family business. |
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| Just because a family member is gainfully employed by the family business doesn't mean that they're insulated from the impact of the downturn. |
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| She was a successful businessperson, working closely for years with her father in the family business in Newcastle. |
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| Joma started operations in 1968 as a family business with a tractor-based machine station for emptying cesspits. |
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| It said he had met the applicant in 1994 when he was bankrupt and could only operate through a family business with his mother as sole director and himself as consultant. |
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| I am the absentee boss of a very small enterprise, our family business in London. |
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| Since its foundation in 1958, Wulf Gaertner Autoparts has been an owner-operated, unlisted family business on the aftermarket. |
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| Dr. Karl J. Gaertner was appointed CEO of the family business and became the successor to the company founder. |
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| That would set it apart from the tourist-thumping Illinois legislature, which just shilled for the family business. |
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| Sheard Fabrics is a third-generation family business run by Iskender and Perihan Sheard. |
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| Generational handovers are complex events, and managing them well is crucial to the long-term survival of a family business. |
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| Today, I am the proud and passionate continuator of a family business started over 20 years ago. |
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| His countersuit charged that he had been cheated out of a one-third interest in the family business. |
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| They were the last Johnsons to be in the family business. The book's many other characters include Evangeline, the General's sister. |
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| Still, the political Bushes appear to be a family business whose deliberations are tantalizingly out of the public's reach. |
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| From Rick Zampogna's first suggestion that his father become a professional vintner, Flickerwood has been a family business. |
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| Therefore, the best way of ensuring your family weathers the storm is to do as much as you can to ensure your family business survives. |
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| To help fill this information gap some family business owners are turning to an old, time-honoured technique: the ethical will. |
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| The communist Party elite are turning Vietnamese capitalism into a family business. |
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| By the age of 10, he already knew all the frozen specialties and soon began working summers in the family business. |
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| In Borsod County, for example, an unemployed man started up a bakery as a family business. |
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| Bert believes a business plan is a must for a successful farm family business. |
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| The retirement savings position of that family member cannot be determined independently of the family business. |
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| Destrijker, like his two younger siblings, spent most childhood mornings and weekends picking and packing eggs for the family business. |
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| I know that his family business is of far more importance to him than the future of the state of Quebec. |
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| Adrien says none of the kids were pressured to stay home to take over the family business. |
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| He went to Italy, where members of his family lived, in order to take charge of family business and to continue his studies as a painter. |
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| We are confused about how to handle the issue of which child should run the family business in the event that we were to die before they reach adulthood. |
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| Most of the customers for his family business, which produces smoked meats in the village, are in affluent southern England. |
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| His mathematics teacher advised that Arthur be encouraged to pursue his studies in this area rather than follow his father's wishes to enter the family business as merchants. |
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| The business boomed as the brothers' reputation for their racetrack achievements grew the family business rapidly becoming a magnet for the motorcycling community. |
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| Along with his twin brother Morris, he was involved in the family business, GB Nicol and Sons, that sold everything from a packet of pins to a complete house of furniture. |
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| I often heard the lament that their Arab grandfathers and fathers had not thought enough about education, and had simply pushed their sons into the family business. |
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| He may simply have helped his father with the family business. |
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| Neither of us were ever pressured to join the family business. |
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| Oncken died in 1988, but his son Bill has carried on the family business. |
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| Five years ago, we unanimously adopted an excellent report on this subject, one of our demands being a framework statute for spouses that help out in the family business. |
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| Francic Jackson Homes is a third generation family business specialising in sympathetic schemes. |
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| While business equity plays a big role in the net worth of these families, it is also likely that there is a family member working for pay outside the family business. |
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| Missa has managed the family business, WASSA Agro-Group, since 1995 and with increasing success. |
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| As an independent, family business, we do not have to keep a weather eye on the uncertainties of the stock market or pension funds but can give all our attention to YOUR satisfaction. |
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| The co-operative was created through the purchase of equipment belonging to a family business, for which the majority of the founding members of the co-operative had worked for fifteen years. |
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| Not a stand-alone decision Consideration of how to divide up the asset that is the family business overlaps with the basic issue of business succession. |
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| We belong to a family business conveying the most important human values to me, but with assets and a technical potential worthy of big companies. |
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| He has a great strategic overview and enormous expert knowledge. I have found the ideal successor to continue the clear philosophy of our family business. |
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| Founded in 1947, Boulangerie St-Méthode is a family business that was among the first companies in Québec to develop the market for healthy breads containing no fat or sugar. |
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| Other current topics included the family business and its transmission to the next generation, digital terrestrial television and the new directive on electrical waste products. |
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| As the mounds of cherrystone shells grew, so did the family business, adding on a formal Italian restaurant that served pasta, broiled seafood and other Helen Randazzo recipes. |
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| The Court erroneously assumed it to be insignificant that the appellant is a family business and, in comparison with the other undertakings, does not have direct access to capital markets. |
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| Mr. Wilcox owns a family business that has been operating for 20 years and brings to the Board a solid understanding of financial and organizational management, business planning and strategic management. |
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| The great strength a family business has is that ownership brings with it the sense of purpose, of stewardship and custodianship. |
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| He started off in the family business with his sister, Chantal. |
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| Mars Belgium is the perfect example that a family business can function wonderfully well by adhering to its values such as respect, friendship and solidarity. |
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| After completion of a classical work apprenticeship as a cabinet-maker, for eight years copartner in the family business for furniture restoration and trade in works of art. |
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| Given that all family-owned businesses are driven by family values, you may find a better match with a foreign-owned family business than with a domestic partner that doesn't share your values. |
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| Young artists, trained at the workshop from Fiji, Niue, Papua New Guinea, Samoa and Solomon Islands have subsequently opened up small family business workshops for woodblock printing and paper-making. |
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| Though bad behavior on the part of any employee can have a negative impact on a family business, children employed by the business sometimes seem to get away with things that might not be tolerated if done by other employees. |
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| Apparent differences in family members' styles or personality types need not automatically be considered a reason not to join the family business, though they do come into play. |
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| But it is the family business Party Pieces, launched by Carole Middleton from their home in one of Berkshire's prettier villages, which founded the family's wealth and gave their daughter entry into higher social circles. |
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| The guy she's engaged to is finishing his MBA and my daughter has casually mentioned that she hopes he might join the family business at some point. |
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| This family business founded in 1915 and based in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA, allows Viking Electric Supply to grow in south-east Wisconsin, enriching its range of services in the Industrial and Service markets. |
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| This desire to make the farm a true family business, for whatever reason, usually involves the transfer of a portion of the farm during the owner's lifetime, requiring the setting up of a new legal structure. |
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| After they died in quick succession, Constable inherited a fifth share in the family business. |
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| The prime minister's children say the money came from the sale of a family business in Saudi Arabia. |
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| Semyon stayed in Solvychegodsk, where he successfully led the family business there by himself. |
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| He designed the first textile mills in the US and later went into business for himself, developing a family business with his sons. |
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| The family business he founded still exists today as an art gallery and shop, the Heaton Cooper Studio, in Grasmere, Cumbria. |
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| Established at Lagny at the end of the war, the family business has negotiated the twists and turns of growth to become a solid car services group: it now has 600 employees, 12 sites including two at Torcy and Noisy-le-Grand. |
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| However tempting it may be to ignore alcohol problems in a family business, doing so is dangerous to the person with the drinking problem, to family members, and to the business itself. |
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| This case study explores the feasibility of a new business venture by a fourth-generation family business, Babbitt Ranches. |
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| His decision not to seek re-election extricates him from the family business of politics, which began in the 1870s when his great-great-grandfather Henry Lippitt was governor of Rhode Island. |
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| In contrast, family business succession planning is a multifaceted process aimed at having the business owner decide to whom, and how, the business eventually will be transferred. |
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| He is practically an honorary Steinbrenner, having spent many more years intimately involved with the family business than the brothers, Hal and Hank, who now top the masthead. |
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| He also established audiocassette and video divisions for the family business. |
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| His father, living separately, runs the successful family business nearby. |
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| Svetlana, 165 cm, divorced, manager in a family business, lives with her little son in a good apartment: I am a beautiful, blue-eyed blonde, with a kind pleasant plumpness, a successful entrepreneur net of shop departments. |
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| My father-in-law runs the second-generation family business. |
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| In 2000, the third generation joined the business: Gilles Bussy embarked on learning the ropes in the interest to, in his time, take over the family business. |
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| His father recognised the explosiveness of the situation, got on the plane and convinced Martin to join the family business rather than the competitor. |
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| Women contributed to the informal sector of the economy through farming, working in a family business or microenterprise, but received no benefits. |
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| Now the action moves on to the Roaring Twenties, and Thomas is determined to expand the legal and illegal sides of the Shelby family business. |
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| There is no shortage of stories about banking fraud, counterfeiters, and swindlers. One particular group, the Johnson Family, is infamous for their family business, which just happened to be counterfeiting bank notes! |
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| Once I had obtained a certificate of professional aptitude for stone setting and a certificate in gemology, I returned to Québec in 1978 to then practice my craft within the family business. |
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| Charles Kidd says the family business did OK during World War II, selling marshmallow creme and chocolate malt powder. |
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| The family business was founded as a turnery in 1984 in Falkenstein. |
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| Our decision to go public in 1997 had furthermore been motivated by the need to ensure, for a family business like ours, its continuity for generations to come. |
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| In 1931, Mullally's fifth cousin, Henry Horlbeck Lowndes, became a stockholder and part of the family business. |
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| In 2006, Success Tools was taken over by Andre Liem, Desiree Liem and Jacqueline van Altena-Liem, a brother and two sisters, turning Success Tools thus into a real family business. |
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| The Ganong family of St. Stephen, New Brunswick, perfected the wrapped candy bar in the late 1870s and went on to build a family business that gave the consumer a sweet, hygienic snack. |
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| We try to keep this family business running, but we have just been notified that you have switched to Congressive Insurance. |
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| Examining risk-taking attitudes and behavior among family business owners will increase the understanding of risk tolerance in general and add to the literature on this topic. |
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| In all matters relating to the family business, mum has the final say. |
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| Ozzy and Sharon Osbourne's unique blend of heavy metal and family values is highlighted in the episode which examines the workings of the family business. |
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| After he left college, his father set him up in the family business. |
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| The oldest public house in Caernarfon is the Black Boy Inn, which remained in the same family for over 40 years until sold in 2003 to a local independent family business. |
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| In addition, as they became adults they become a major input to the family business, mainly farming, and were the primary form of insurance for adults in old age. |
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| They want to establish their children in the family business. |
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