How to face business challenges as a family
More resilient in the face of crises, better integrated into their territory, offering better working conditions to their teams, family businesses are deemed to have many assets. However, there are many challenges for these companies and their shareholders.
Nicolas Mirabaud and Camille Vial of Banque Mirabaud, in family hands for more than 200 years.
Loris Van Siebenthal
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More than 90% of businesses in the world are family-owned. “This is the most common model”, recalls Anick Baud, specialist in family companies within the independent manager Bruellan. And certain contexts allow these companies to become major players in the economy. This is particularly the case in central Europe: “The specificity of Switzerland, compared to Latin countries or the United States, is that there are a lot of them in industry and medical technologies. Rhine capitalism brings Switzerland closer to Germany,” adds Anick Baud.