Definition for : Family-owned company

A family-owned company is a company whose Shareholders have for several generations been members of the same family . Often, through a Holding company, these Shareholders exert Significant influence on management. Still the dominant model in Europe, but on the decline.

(See Chapter 40 Setting up a company or financing start-ups of the Vernimmen)

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