Insights

Family Business – Best practice

Family businesses are widely regarded as the engine of the global economy, but to be sustainable they have to constantly balance the needs of family and business.

Governance in the Family Business

Many governance structures are not designed with the family business in mind. A family business looking to secure its future, needs to acknowledge the particular challenges created by family involvement. This report, based on the data from The Coutts Prize for Family Business highlights the key characteristics and challenges of family business governance.

For a hard copy of the Governance publication, please contact Chloe.Elms@coutts.com

Dedications - Portraits of Women in Family Business

This publication will provide you, through case studies, with insights into women playing a unique role in and around their family business.

For a hard copy of the Dedications publication, please contact Chloe.Elms@coutts.com

Qualities and Strengths of Family Businesses

This research report, the first in a series, outlines key learning points from the data collected for the Coutts Prize for Family Business 2005-2010, in particular around the qualities and strengths of family businesses.

For a hard copy of the research report, please contact Chloe.Elms@coutts.com

The Coutts Handbook for Family Business Owners

This handbook will help you and your family ask the right questions at the right time when working together towards the long term success of your family business.

For a hard copy of the Family Business Owners handbook, please contact Chloe.Elms@coutts.com

• Family business case study: Stevenson Brothers
• Family business case study:David Marshall
• Family business philanthropy case study: Ian Gregg OBE
• Family business philanthropy case study: Andrew Wates

The Coutts Family Business Survey

To deepen our understanding of the issues and challenges facing family business owners, we undertook an extensive survey of family businesses, in association with twenty highly respected fellow-contributors, including the Institute of Directors, the Institute for Family Business (UK), and London Business School.

The survey seeks to ask a vital question: are family businesses better prepared than other businesses to compete in the future? Our findings, and our expert contributors' commentary upon them, make fascinating reading.