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CMG regularly updates our thinking on research, trends, and stories about business families and how best to support them.

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Enhancing CMG’s support to Canada’s business families & their advisory teams

Kyle Leistner joined CMG as Director, Actuarial Services in 2021 to help our business family clients clearly understand “what’s under the insurance hood” in simple terms...

LEVI STRAUSS: How the Haas family revived its 169-year-old business

It’s an inspiring story of a successful family business that has encountered peaks and valleys, massive successes and failures, went private and public (twice!) – and yet somehow has survived and remained family-controlled to this day...

How Zegna strengthened its 112-year family business for generations to come

The 112-year-old family business made a bold move to reinvent themselves by becoming the first luxury Italian fashion house to list on the NYSE. As the Zegna family undergoes this transition, a number of things particularly stand out to us...

The Bowlen's: 38 years of family ownership comes to an end

It's official - the Pat Bowlen Trust announced the Broncos are up for sale. With prospective buyers like Peyton Manning to Jeff Bezos and media mogul Bryon Allen - who will become teams new owners?...

What could have kept the Denver Broncos in the Bowlen family?

Our latest update focuses on an announcement recently made by the Pat Bowlen Trust. It's official - the Denver Broncos are up for sale after 38 years of family ownership...

The role of non-family members in Merck's sustained success

Our latest update focuses on the role of non-family members at Merck, outlining a number of observations of their involvement within the thirteen generation family business...

The continuing resilience of the world’s largest 500 family businesses

The 2021 EY and University of St. Gallen Family Business Index reveals how family businesses are maintaining the health of the global economy through economic dominance and resilience. Here are a few highlights that stood out to us...

The Estée Lauder family: three generations of successful ownership

The Lauder Family: 75 years (and three generations) of successful ownership, overcoming challenges and their continued prosperity...

Steve Landau joins CMG in independent tax consulting role

We're continuously striving to improve, and we’re pleased to announce that Steve Landau has joined CMG on a part-time basis as an independent tax consultant...

Another NFL season brings 32 family businesses into the spotlight

The NFL’s very precise ownership rules have long focused on concentrated ownership amongst individuals and families for its 32 franchises. The league doesn’t want any big corporate entity owning a team. As a result, the NFL is basically a community of family-owned enterprises...

CMG Leadership Announcement

A key ingredient of all successful business families is strong, focused leadership. CMG is a business family too. And we’re pleased to announce the appointment of our first full-time CEO…

Samsung’s massive inheritance tax problem

Success never seems to come without challenges – and for the Lee family in Korea, there have been many. And, with the recent passing of Lee Kun-hee, his family and the Samsung empire face yet another challenge: an inheritance tax bill of nearly $11 billion USD...