Tess De La Mare is a reporter at CampdenFB.
Email Address: tessdelamare@campdenwealth.com
Setting up a new microfinance division at her family’s Lebanon-based insurance business, Commercial Insurance, gave third-generation Coralie Zaccar a golden opportunity to combine her financial background with her passion for social entrepreneurship, making sure even the poorest in society have a safety net.
Australian family businesses have enjoyed local and
international success, but closer to home they are
facing a succession squeeze and a government that
is slow to show its support.
Three impressionist paintings from the estate of the late copper heiress Huguette Clark reached a combined total of almost $41 million (€29.4 million) at a recent Christie's auction in New York.
An Illinois-based family upholstery business has joined forces with a private equity firm in the hope of becoming the US's first publicly-traded company of its type in the US.
Ingvar Kamprad, the founder of Swedish flat-pack furniture chain Ikea, has relinquished his last formal roles in the business he founded in 1943.