Family enterprise

Unlocking ambition in family-owned enterprises from one generation to the next.

Family enterprise owners face unique challenges as they balance their ambition to grow with the effort to build the family legacy.

Drawing from more than 100 years of experience supporting the world’s most entrepreneurial families, we have identified the success factors for family enterprise growth — the Growth DNA Model. This model and the EY 7 Drivers of Growth pinpoint the issues and areas of focus that will support family enterprise leaders in achieving their ambitions and building a long-term, intergenerational legacy. 

As trusted advisors to enterprise-owning families around the world, we have the experience, authority and programs such as the EY NextGen Academy to support families to grow from generation to generation.

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EY Private Perspectives webcast – Replay available

Watch a panel of experts explore how raising new capital can be used to strengthen family enterprises and which intergenerational aspects come into play as business families transition to the next generation. 

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Family Business Characteristics in Slovenia

Family businesses make up the majority of enterprises in Slovenia. EY Slovenia collaborated with the Faculty of Economics, Universtiy of Ljubljana, to discover their characteristics and their role in the Slovenian economy.

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Slovenian winners of the EY Award of Excellence

Every year, EY Slovenia crowns one family-owned enterprise with the EY Award of Excellence.

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EY Family Enterprise DNA model

We understand the unique challenges that family enterprise owners face as they balance their ambition to grow with the effort to build the family legacy.

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Family Office

Our family office professionals can help you evaluate best practices of leading family offices to support the family’s vision and legacy.

 

 

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How EY can help

EY Growth DNA Model for family business

We understand that family enterprise owners face unique challenges as they balance the need to accelerate growth with the effort to build the family legacy.

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Your values: Purpose and context

Fundamental to the success of generational families is a common sense of purpose and shared values, which are adopted by successive generations to preserve the family legacy.

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Your business: Growth and innovation

Sustaining the growth and profitability of the family enterprise is increasingly challenging in the face of a rapidly changing market environment driven by technology and disruption.

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Your assets: Capital and security

The family operating model is the link between the family’s strategic intent and its ability to deliver on that. Leading families leverage their resources to optimize costs and enable growth.

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Your family: Life and legacy

As families grow in number and complexity, a key challenge for a family enterprise is how to plan for succession and implement a governance framework for decision making.

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Family Office

Today, private family capital is larger than private equity and venture capital combined. The increasing concentration of wealth held by very wealthy families and rising globalization are fueling the growth of family offices.

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The EY 7 Drivers of Growth

Our 7 Drivers of Growth framework can help your business successfully execute your growth strategy over the long term. Find out how.

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Growth Markets

If you’re an ambitious start-up, a disruptive entrepreneur, a next generation leader of a family enterprise or a transformative CEO, we can help you achieve your growth ambitions and build a legacy to be proud of.

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Private client tax services

We offer a wide variety of services that are associated with owning, managing and preserving privately owned businesses and wealth.

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Venture capital

Funding from a venture capital investor could give your business the best possible start on its high-growth journey. We can help you review your options and find the right backers.

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Unlock your ambitions with EY Private

Ninety percent of EY clients are private, yielding experience that’s practical and deep.

Realize your ambitions with advisors to the ambitious.

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