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Can a current employer to imagine that his business will continue in business and in the hands of his family within 14 centuries? The answer is obviously no. He was lucky the Japanese temple builder Kongo Gumi, who founded his family business as much as in 578 AD, and continues to operate.

But Kongo Gumi was acquired in early 2006 by the group Takamatsu, which takes the top spot in qualifying family business this week by the journal American Family Business Magazine. That place of honor now falls to another company in the country of the Rising Sun: The Hotel Hoshi Ryokan, Komatsu founded in 718 and this year celebrates its 1,289 th anniversary ….

Kongo family came from Korea at the invitation of Prince Shotoku more than 1,400 years ago with the task of building a Buddhist temple Shitennoji, which still exists today. Even today, the 40th generation of this family continues to build and repair churches from its headquarters in Osaka, led by Toshitaka Kongo, 51. For its part, the Hoshi family runs a hotel and spa in Komatsu from 718. The hostel can get 450 visitors in 100 rooms.

In this very exclusive club of companies centenarian, who was born and dying empires and survived world wars and natural disasters, Spain occupies an important place thanks to two well-known family businesses: Bodegas Codorniu and Osborne. In the post 17 of the list, the report explains that Jaume Codorniu acquired the company in 1551, and since then the winery has seen five centuries of life. In 1976, King Juan Carlos declared the Codorniu cellars historical and artistic monument, visited annually by 200,000 people and produces 60 million bottles.

A Codorniu is followed, at some distance and 92 ° position, Osborne, winery founded in 1772 by Englishman Thomas Osborne Mann, who owned an export company in Cádiz. According to Family Business Magazine, Osborne won rapid success through his friendship with the British consul at the time, who allowed him to store their wines in the private cellars of the consulate. The company today has 700 employees and is led by Tomas and Ignacio Osborne.

Leaving the Far East and Spain, the most abundant family businesses here are from Italy and France, followed at some distance by England and Germany. Thus, in the first 10 positions in the classification are the Château de Goulaine, founded in France in 1000 and dedicated to vineyards. The fourth is the casting company Pontificia Marinelli Bell Foundry, founded in Agnone, Italy, also in 1000. The bells produced by this company are still ringing from Beijing to Jerusalem to New York.

Aware of the importance of family businesses in the economy of Navarre, and at the same time, the difficulties they face, from Caja Rural de Navarra in collaboration with the Navarra Chamber of Commerce and Industry we have launched a specific line of work for such companies with the aim of carrying out diverse activities as may be of help and useful.

Within this online publication is part of the study on the survival of the family business in Navarra, and the development of a self-test program aimed at allowing any family business making use of this tool to obtain the final result a Diagnosis Management of your company, focusing on the most critical aspects of managing the family business.

In 2008 we want to have ready support for different languages (including Italian), and most importantly, I want every online user in Italy and around the world think of Spock as the best search engine of people existing in a more open and Free! (Mancini short, a sort of Who’s who in global and not just for VIPs).

Just to help in this mission, has appointed Jay evangelizer  & ambassadors in various countries (including Andrey Golub in Italy), from which you expect an honest relationship with regard to service improvement and ensure that Spock is represented adequately in the countries various markets. Jay says that not only is interesting to work with ambassadors from around the world, but he likes very open conversations about how to get Spock to reach the potential that everybody believes has.

With increasing levels of personal debt that is reported, along with a record number of bankruptcies and insolvencies, it is no surprise to anyone that money is becoming a major problem for thousands if not millions of people.

Most of us would be “money problems” with “problems of debt, and high levels of debt service made it a major cause of worry and stress for those of us who have given perhaps too much in the past.

There are other problems of money that does not get very much publicity. It’s called Financial Phobia, and is a real medical condition that causes untold problems for its victims.

Recent research has suggested that up to 20% of adults have total financial phobia, and almost half of the population show some signs of a milder version of the condition.

The victims have a hard time keeping track of their finances, including the ability to do simple things like open bank accounts because their feelings of anxiety, nausea, and even – in the worst case scenario – total panic attacks. They do not like check your bank balance, put off paying bills, and in extreme cases be avoided completely opening the mail and throw it away rather than deal with the content. Read the rest of this entry »

The world of small and medium enterprises (SMEs) is an area vaguely familiar to many people, especially for those who have responsibility for policy development support for the sector. There are myths that affect the decisions of these people, however, there is an even more worrying is that some small business owners keep their own myths, the greatest of these is that they believe that their problems are caused by the lack credit and sometimes even think it’s their only problem. Studies have shown that it is not, the problem lies mainly in poor management.

These same studies on SME problems frequently cited as: declining sales, declining profitability, late payments from customers, among others. Only half of the companies pursuing a strategy of specialization, which aims to strengthen or expand the market presence of its traditional products. The specialization strategy is more prevalent among SMEs with more than 500 employees. Read the rest of this entry »