The family-run firm said it was hoping to minimise job losses through redeployment and voluntary redundancies.
The family-run firm has been in business in Northern Ireland for the past 100 years.
Bacardi (which owns five top brands) is an old-style, family-controlled firm that would have trouble raising large sums of cash to bid.
Bharat Forge, a family-controlled firm also based in Pune, is more ambitious.
Cisneros, whose Cuban-born father started the family-controlled firm in the 1930s, says his Galaxy group has signed up 550, 000 subscribers in 13 countries.
Cisneros, 53, whose Cuban-born father started the family-controlled firm in the 1930s, says his Galaxy group has signed up 550, 000 subscribers in 13 countries.
Schaeffler, a family-owned firm that makes bearings, was almost felled by the loans it took on to take over Continental, a car-parts company three times its size.
Will Campbell, director of JGC Engineering, who traces the family-owned firm back six generations to a blacksmith's forge, is building a computerised crane for a German company that needs it to remove nuclear-fuel rods from a defunct Lithuanian reactor.
The home is owned by Jack Corwin, founder and president of Huntington Holdings, a family-owned investment-management firm in Beverly Hills.
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Reijtenbagh's investment activities started in 1985 when he began running the Plaza Group, his family-held investment firm with offices in Belgium, Monaco and Luxembourg.
"That is why we never believed we could become a target, though for many years some people have told us to be careful, " says Jonathan Solomon, a community elder, who runs a nearly 100-year-old family-owned law firm in central Mumbai.
The incredibly comfortable beds will convert lovers of firm mattresses to the joys of the handcrafted McCroskey Airflex, produced by a family-owned San Francisco firm that has been making beds for 107 years.
Lita and Mike Asscher, the young, energetic sixth generation heirs to the 157-year-old family owned firm, introduced several new jewelry designs over the past few years.
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CeWe Color, a family-owned photographic and digital-imaging firm, went public in 1993, but a family trust hung on to 27% of the shares and the right to appoint executives.
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There had been some financial difficulties for his family firm Haymarket Publishing - but the company has turned around and he's back in again.
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Punj Lloyd got its first overseas break as a sub-contractor to PT Trihasra Bimanusa Tunggal, an Indonesian firm with Suharto family ties that had the contract to build a 130-mile pipeline for Pertamina, the state-owned petroleum firm.
On a late Los Angeles afternoon last fall, up a steep and winding road in lower Benedict Canyon, a covered chain-link fence and a dense covering of trees and shrubs blocked most views of the mansion of Mr. Pritzker, part of the Chicago real-estate family and a billionaire co-founder of private-equity firm the Pritzker Group.
Astonishingly, then, the fate of the Agnellis' stake in Fiat depends in part on what Fiat's new, non-family chairman does for the firm's share price.
Family-friendly workplace practices do not improve firm performance is another finding that is not welcomed by all.
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The firm is 100% family-owned, as is visible from its management.
Gayman, who had worked as a developer in the Bay Area during the tail end of the dot-com era before rejoining the family firm, spotted an opportunity.
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Fortunately, recently, professors Nick Bloom, Toby Kretschmer, and John van Reenen (from Stanford, the University of Munich, and the London School of Economics) conducted an extensive study examining the effect of family-friendly practices on hard variables such as firm sales per employee and return on capital employed, using a large database of firms from the US, the UK, Germany, and France.
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ILTE, an Italian printing firm that is controlled by the family-owned Farina group, recently won a prize for its annual report.
The firm's 850-strong family of workers resented the idea of being swallowed by an upstart such as Sega with its dry corporate culture.
He's a thoughtful man of 51 with a more than routine feeling of responsibility for the onetime family firm that was founded by his great-great grandfather in Somerville, Mass. 126 years ago.
There was criticism from anti-abortion campaigners at the Society for the Protection of Unborn Children that the funds raised at the family-planning summit in London could be used for terminations - despite the organisers' insistence that a firm dividing line had been drawn.
More shocking was that David-Weill gave Wasserstein free reign over the family firm, with nothing but a veto to block the IPO.
Sareen comes from a family of tech-savvy fashionistas who created Tukatech, a firm specializing in digital pattern making and 3D prototyping systems for apparel makers.
Three-quarters of Lazard's revenues are paid back in compensation, a fact that caused much of the initial strife between Wasserstein and Michel David-Weill , scion of the family who founded the firm and the leader of the capitalist group.
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