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Global Family Business Index
Introduction
The Global Family Business Index comprises the largest 500 family firms around the globe. It provides impressive evidence of the economic power and relevance of family firms in the world.
The index is compiled by the Center for Family Business at the University of St.Gallen, Switzerland, in cooperation with EY's Global Family Business Center of Excellence.
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We define a family business as follows. For a privately held firm, a firm is classified as a family firm in case a family controls more than 50% of the voting rights. For a publicly listed firm, a firm is classified as a family firm in case the family holds at least 32% of the voting rights.
For further details on this definition see below.
| Rank | Company | EST | Public | Revenue | Employees | Country | Sector | Family | Share |
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* = Voting rights
The 32% cut-off is motivated by the observation that in OECD countries on average 30% of the votes are sufficient to dominate the general assembly of a publicly listed company. This is because on average only roughly 60% of the votes are present in the general assembly. To be more conservative in our classification we decided to use the 32% cut-off, which is also more conservative than most academic studies who often use a 25% or 20% cut-off. The assessments in this index are based on data for 2015. Companies for which no complete and reliable data for 2015 was available were skipped from the index. Jump to table.
Compiled by the Center for Family Business at the University of St.Gallen, Switzerland in cooperation with EY's Global Family Business Center of Excellence. Data visualization by smartive. Version 1.2, June 2017.