January 2012

Exploring Family Businesses

In the first edition of The Brewery Journal, freuds convenes perspectives on the role of family businesses in society, and explores what steers towards them towards either impressive longevity or spectacular ruin.

Introduction

Matthew Freud | Chairman, freuds

How the Bettencourt family spat has put the future of L’Oréal in doubt

Sarah Butler

Private company, public good: why The Body Shop was never a family business

Gordon Roddick | Co-founder of The Body Shop

Whose business is it anyway?

Arlo Brady | CEO, freuds

Banking on Buddhist Economics: how enduring values underpin a 300-year-old family bank

Alexander Hoare | Managing partner of C. Hoare & Co.

The Monarchy Model: why inheritance has a role in government as well as governance

Huffkins

The impact of Kraft on Cadbury’s Quakerly good intentions

Deborah Cadbury

The hardest task of all? Successful wealth transition to the next generation

Martin Jenkins

How family influence provides leading car manufacturers with continuity and stability

David Gow

Why drama loves a family business

A.A. Gill