Once again, we are seeing just how vulnerable many companies are that pay too little attention to the issue of resilience: the export restrictions that China has decided on and introduced for rare earth metals in order to secure its own supply and as an incentive to relocate processing plants to China are hitting companies …
According to the latest ninth edition of the ZEW study commissioned by the Stiftung Mittelstand, Germany only ranks 18th out of the 21 industrialized nations analyzed in the Family Business Country Index (https://www.familienunternehmen.de/de). The study identifies six sub-indices, namely taxes, labor, regulation, financing, infrastructure, investment and energy. The authors of the ZEW study come to …
The current political and economic situation is also impacting entrepreneurial succession for businesses. Business founders as well as strategic buyers and financial investors are consciously incorporating uncertainties and risks arising from rising financing costs, from high inflation, increasing equity requirements, ESG requirements, fragile raw material supply chains, the increasing significance of the creditworthiness, worsening skills …
