Family Business
Sustain the business you’ve generated for future generations
Family Business Lifecycle
Grow and Sustain the Family Business
At the heart of every family business is an idea born of opportunity that’s nurtured through generations. Taking the Family Business to the next level or making a large investment decision can be a big step in your businesses journey. These opportunities grow better when they are expressed with vison, sustained by experience and fuelled by investment.
Protect the Family Business
If you want to sustain your business beyond a single generation of the family, we can help you make a plan. Putting structures and solutions in place to cover these events can assist in family members remaining financially independent whatever happens in the future and provides peace of mind. With solutions to cover loss of income due to illness or death; we can help you to make the family business and its members financially independent.
Succession and Exit Planning
There’s a point at which the business you built becomes your legacy. Most family business owners find themselves so involved in the day-to-day operations they’re not thinking of what’s next. Planning for succession in your family business can mean it survives beyond a single generation. The earlier you can start planning for that transition, the better. Succession is not an event but a process that can be prepared for.
Family Business Stories
AIB is honoured to support Family Businesses throughout Ireland. Family Businesses are the heartbeat of the Irish economy and AIB is delighted to support this key sector. Below are some of the brilliant Family Businesses which AIB is supporting on the journey. The videos focus on key topics in Family Business, including Succession, Culture and External Board Members. If you are a family business and have any queries, please email smeinfo@aib.ie
Succession - Cormac Tagging
Culture - McKeon Group
Non-Family Board Members - Cantec Group
Top 5 Tips for Day-to-Day Management
Professional Structures
Formal structures can help you avoid conflict as your business grows and develops. They can foster growth and opportunity as the company develops and responds to markets and trends.
Family Dynamics
Setting up open, straightforward communication and establishing boundaries can create clarity and focus. Communicate with family members in the same way that you would any other employee.
Recruitment
Choose the right person for the job, regardless of relations, can help everyone to focus on the purpose of your business.
Succession Planning
Planning for a smooth transition to the next generation will help to make sure that the business you’ve created becomes a legacy. Talk to a tax specialist, solicitor, your bank and accountant.
Helpful Resources
Growing and expanding your business
Growing your business is part of a process. Sometimes that might be as simple as taking the first steps to professionalise the business or it could be the process of fostering innovation and developing workforces’ skills to grow the business.
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Protecting family wealth
You’ve worked hard to build a business. You’ve created an asset you can pass on. It helps to plan to accumulate that wealth, either through the activities of the business, or to preserve it for future generations. For some family business this is done through seeking advisors for the business.
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Planning for succession
There comes a point when your work is done and you may decide to step away, enjoy your time and give someone else a shot at bringing their own view to the business. The earlier you bring the next generation into the business the sooner they can take the wheel.
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Dublin City University National Centre for Family Business
The DCU National Centre for Family Business (NCFB) is one of Ireland’s leading resource for family businesses. Founded in 2013, the NCFB’s vision is to provide practical managerial and business insights, informed by lessons from best practice in family business management. NCFB delivers research, events, webinars and podcasts featuring national and international experts in the field, as well as experienced family business leaders and relevant professional management advisors. Find out more here.
Important/Regulatory Information
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