Mergers & Acquisitions
Family Business Succession: Sell, Hand Over or Professionalise
Roughly 450,000 European enterprises change hands each year. For industrial family firms, the route matters less than how commercially ready the business is. The report sets out the considerations and practical implications discussed in the article.
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- PDF · 14 pages
- Published
- Published Oct 2026
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What's inside
- 01Succession is Europe's largest unplanned transaction pipeline
- 02Intention is common; a named successor is not
- 03A written plan is not the same as a tested next generation
- 04Selling is the minority route, but the price it sets governs the rest
- 05Family management carries a measurable cost, which is why professionalising pays