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.
"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.
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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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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The firm is 100% family-owned, as is visible from its management.
ILTE, an Italian printing firm that is controlled by the family-owned Farina group, recently won a prize for its annual report.
Today Mr. Saied, who is applying for U.S. citizenship, helps run an environmental-testing firm in Hialeah owned by his wife's family.
Speyer's net worth is up a bit since the 2012 Forbes 400 list thanks to the rise in value of his firm's most prized property, Rockefeller Center, co-owned with the family of Lester Crown.
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.
The news prompted PrivCo, a research firm that provides financial data on major, non-publicly traded corporations, including family owned, private equity owned, venture backed, and international unlisted companies, to publish a report that declared Pipkin a billionaire.
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