Café Martínez: Family Business, Coffee and Creating a Home-Away-From-Home Experience
Walk into any Café Martínez location around the world, and the first thing you will notice besides the inebriating aroma of artisanal roasted South...
The Barrow Group: Five Generations of Construction in South Africa
Over the course of its 121-year history, the Barrow Property Group grew from a small carpentry shop into one of South Africa’s leading property...
Family Offices and Venture Capital
One of the fastest growing trends within the family office sector is leveraging venture capital in long-term planning and strategy.
Expert Brett de Bank, a...
Sparks & Daughters: Personalised Products Made with Love
Deborah and Verity Sparks are the mother-and-daughter duo behind Sparks & Daughters. Born in the British countryside when Deborah began making personalised aprons at...
The Tea Shelf: A Historical Family Business Tackles the Digital Marketing Age
The Tea Shelf is among India’s most successful pioneers in the e-commerce for tea. Since launching in 2015, they have grown their business by delivering...
How Family Business Branding Impacts Consumer Perception
Dr Claudia Binz Astrachan is a lecturer and researcher at Lucerne University of Applied Sciences and Arts (Switzerland) and a Senior Research Fellow at...
Bambino Mio: Engendering Trust in the E-Commerce Era
Guy and Jo Schanschieff invested 25 years' worth of effort and capital to realise the full potential of their family business. Bambino Mio, now...
Kodiak Cakes and the Long, Passionate Game to Entrepreneurial Success
The story of Joel Clark and Kodiak Cakes is a story of perseverance.
From the age of eight, Joel was knocking on doors to sell...
Grupo Ferré Rangel: Internationalisation, Diversification and Social Innovation
With a strategic approach that emphasises internationalisation, diversification and social innovation, Grupo Ferré Rangel, Puerto Rico's family-owned, multinational, strategic investment holding company, has achieved...
Symphony: Returning from the Brink of Bankruptcy to Lasting International Success
By identifying a niche in the hypercompetitive Indian market and maintaining a strategy of continuous product development, Symphony revolutionised the air coolers category.
After making...
