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...
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...
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 Age of Omnichannel Marketing and its Repercussions for Family Businesses
Technology fascinates Anders Sörman-Nilsson, a global futurist, speaker and author of three books on the topic of digitisation and innovation. He believes in a...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Five Industries That Will be Transformed by Virtual Reality
To get a sense of what impact virtual reality (VR) will have across industries in the not-too-distant future, we must first turn our attention...
