On the 25th of November, Berlin was the setting for the first European Family Business Summit. 220 Family business entrepreneurs from 14 European Union countries joined together to discuss salient political and business topics facing family businesses across Europe. Angela Merkel delivered the closing address where she underlined the

EFB and KPMG launch the third edition of the European Family Business Barometer, which seeks to measure the confidence levels of family-owned businesses across Europe. The outlook for family business remains positive, with confidence remaining stable at 70% (compared with 71% in June 2014). However, as was the case

A new KPMG Global Family Business Survey 2014 ‘Family matters: Financing Family Business growth through individual investors’ examines the various possible sources of funding for family business, and explores in detail the synergies between HNWIs and family business. With the number of people who live off the family business