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Only super-rich families like the Rockefellers, Vanderbilts and Carnegies pay the estate tax, right? Too bad no one told the family that owns and operates Reliable Contracting. Reliable is a construction company in Millersville, Md. What happened to it when a family member died illustrates how big an obstacle family-owned businesses face from the estate tax - more aptly called the "death tax" by those familiar with its harmful ways. It is a tremendous burden because, despite appearing valuable on paper, Reliable and other similar businesses do not have sufficient cash available to pay the tax. Reliable has many high-cost assets, such as bulldozers and dump trucks. This equipment makes up a majority of the business's value. Compared to the value of these assets, it has little cash on han...
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The small, family-owned business is an important, yet under-researched, object of study. In particular, the social responsibility efforts of these businesses have not been given sufficient attention in the literature, as academics have focused more on large, publicly-owned corporations. Therefore, systematic research is needed to study if they engage in social responsibility, why and to what extent. This paper provides an overview of peer-reviewed literature of the social responsibility of small, familyowned businesses, conducted in the U.S. and abroad within the past ten years. It also takes a critical look at this literature and identifies several research questions that need (further) exploration in this field.
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The letters arrive a little more often now. Unsolicited, they're from agents representing potential buyers of Quality Life Services, a family-owned chain of nursing homes and other businesses. We ignore them. None of us are thinking 'sell' at all," said Susie Tack Beardsley, employee relations director for the Butler- based company that her grandfather, father and uncle founded in 1973.
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Most of the American workforce is employed by establishments that employ fewer than 100 workers. Uncovering their deepest secrets is more difficult than tracking larger companies that are well- reported on in media, directories and stock reports. Still, there are telltale signs of a company's true colors available to you through primary personal contact rather than secondary reports. Although employers rarely hire anyone without a reference check, candidates rarely bother, and that's a mistake," Dallas recruitment and placement ace Tony Beshara says. The president of Babich and Associates (babich.com), Beshara has been in the employment trenches for more than 30 years.
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... of companies that are claimed to be familyowned, one could easily infer that the number of family ...
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If you and your date are longing for some of grandma's homemade sauce and pasta, there's plenty of Italian-style home-cooking available right here in Western Pennsylvania. So, grab your Pisan and plan to spend a Saturday in Bloomfield. Known as Pittsburgh's Little Italy, Bloomfield has residents whose Italian roots go back five generations or more.
