Founded as a family company in 1975 and floated on the stockmarket in 1987, Merloni's success owes much to Vittorio Merloni.
In June this year, the Mittal Steel Company, which began life as a small family-run company in the north of India, successfully took over Luxembourg-based rival Arcelor to create the world's biggest steel manufacturer.
On the creative side of wealth management, you can also form business entities such as a family limited liability company or limited partnership to house assets.
It will also surely be harder for the Murdochs, only a minority shareholder in News Corp, to run the company as a family fief.
We will work to ensure that any tax reform plan does as much to help a small family business create jobs and compete as it does for a large company.
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The Reliance group of companies has faced challenging times as a company riven by family feuds and disputes.
As a company that espouses strong family values, Innocean would never intentionally set out to cause distress.
It will also be offered as a steroid to the company's family cars, including the Chrysler 300C sedan.
The company began in 1974 as a family-owned underwriter specializing in ocean marine insurance.
She replaced a part of the income she gave up after leaving her job as a chartered accountant in a finance company, without losing any of the time with her family.
The Frist family, operating apart from HCA as a new company called CHC, is building a hospital with the Chinese government in Cixi, 100 miles south of Shanghai, slated to open in August 2013.
As she puts it, the company is like a second family for them.
The Malkin family, which manages the landmark building, has proposed combining the Empire State Building and 18 other properties controlled by the family into a publicly traded company known as Empire State Realty Trust.
The appointment is seen as the founding family's bid to keep a grip on the company, in which it has a 14% stake.
Today she directs a staff of eight as president of her family's financial holding company, Lurie Investments--though she struggles with the business aspects.
Disney's campaign, conducted almost entirely behind the scenes, is typical of what industry insiders say is a company that jealously guards its image as a marketer of family entertainment instead of a savvy business and political force.
The appeals court said it found no reason to question Daniels' finding that support supposedly given to bin Laden by his family after 1993 and after he was removed as a shareholder from the company had no evidentiary support.
That could be why the company sought a greater margin of support from the family as the process entered its last days.
In 1977 Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, awarded Hunter boots a Royal Warrant, which designated the company as an official supplier to the royal family.
He is also accused of transferring millions of dollars within the family to avoid paying tax, and of falsely listing his wife as a company employee.
Hyundai started out as a construction company in 1947, and founder Chung Ju-Yung and his extended family soon controlled a powerful South Korean business empire consisting of some 50 companies with interests in shipbuilding, automobiles, elevators and securities, among others.
The firm's founder, chairman and spokesman must be glad he and his family chose to take Bernard Matthews private in 2000 following three decades as a public company, since there would have been much shareholder unease following the culling in February.
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Although the company is run by brothers, he does not think of it as a family business.
The Plasek family started the company as Texas Grain Storage Inc. in 1957, according to a lawsuit the company filed in 2007.
Pao was working as a bank clerk in Shanghai, when, just before the victorious Communists entered the city in 1949, he moved his family to Hong Kong and started a small trading company, handling such commodities as duck feathers, animal feed and bean curd.
If somebody has lived in this country for 30, 40 years as illegal immigrants, has a family of five or six kids, hard-working, works for a company, union member whatever, gets into a bar fight one night after work, has a completely clear criminal record.
The family answers to no one, running the company as if it were private, thanks to a dual-class stock structure that was set up when the company went public in 1969.
Then, last week, after controversy over his ABB pension, he resigned from his post as chairman of Investor, the powerful Swedish Wallenberg-family's industrial holding company which is also a major ABB shareholder.
Andrew (Jerry) Perenchio was running a company with Norman Lear, producing such seminal U.S. TV hits as All in the Family and Diff'rent Strokes.
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