Jul 31, 2020 | COVID-19, Family Businesses, FEUSA, In The News
On Monday, July 27, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) released the Health, Economic Assistance, Liability and Schools (HEALS) Act—a $1 trillion stimulus package in response to the ongoing effects of the COVID-19 pandemic. In addition to our initial...
Jul 29, 2020 | Family Business Survey, Family Businesses, FEUSA, Video Post, Watch & Listen
The 2020 Family Business Report was presented to BNY Mellon Wealth Management’s National Private Business Advisory practice group, which consists of over 100 advisors across the organization who specialize in advising private business owners and their advisors through...
Jul 23, 2020 | Family Business Survey, Family Businesses, FEUSA
A recent survey, the 2020 Family Enterprise USA Family Business Survey of family businesses (conducted between late and January and mid-April of this year), found that they’re remaining somewhat optimistic about their future despite an unprecedented first quarter due...
Jul 22, 2020 | COVID-19, Family Business Survey, FEUSA
With nearly three decades of financial advising behind her, Mary J. Howard knows a lot about helping others navigate uncertainty and plan for the future. Her daughter, Megan, is now learning the same alongside her as their team has been working closely with clients to...
Jul 20, 2020 | COVID-19, Family Businesses, FEUSA
Inspiration had struck, and Melissa Johnson was going with it. “As I’ve grown older, I can’t say I’ve necessarily grown wiser. I know there is a whole lot I don’t know,” she wrote in a Facebook post one recent Friday. “The only thing I know for sure is that an act of...
Jul 18, 2020 | COVID-19, Family Businesses, FEUSA
As soon as people nationwide began staying home to prevent the spread of COVID-19, they began watching movies. And then, they started popping popcorn. That has been a bright spot amid the pandemic for JOLLY TIME Pop Corn, a century-old family business based in Sioux...
Jul 16, 2020 | COVID-19, Family Businesses, FEUSA
June 5, 2020 – President Trump visited Guilford, Maine today and toured the Puritan Medical Products headquarters. During his remarks, the President championed his Administration’s use of the Defense Production Act to bolster American manufacturing capabilities and...
Jun 23, 2020 | COVID-19, Family Businesses, FEUSA
Our company was founded by my grandpa in 1953 as Seneca Sawmill. We are now owned by my mother and my two aunts. We have grown over the years and we now have 168,000 acres of timberlands that we manage sustainably (we have 92% more timber on that land than we had 25...
Jun 16, 2020 | COVID-19, Family Business Survey, Family Businesses, FEUSA, Presentation
Family Enterprise USA’s 2020 survey sheds light on factors that family business owners see as obstacles to growth. Legislators must know what is important to family business owners — what helps or hurts them when it comes to operating their businesses and creating...
Jun 12, 2020 | Family Business Survey, Family Businesses, FEUSA, Presentation
Plan to Attend: A Conversation with FEUSA’s President/CEO Pat Soldano and the Drucker School’s Director of the Family Business Institute Kathleen Fariss June 25, 2020 2 p.m. ET | 11 a.m. PT 45 minutes The COVID-19 crisis represents many immediate and...
