José Bernardo Noblejas, president of Ivefa, has highlighted that almost 92% of companies In the Valencian Community they have a family origin, and they generate more than 85% of the jobs; What's more, «every million euros generated Email Data by the family business affects 5.1-6 employees; the non-familiar to 3». He then gave way to Tomás Guillén, the general director of Ifedes Group and Gonzalo Boronat, de GB Consultores, who have presented their initiatives that seek to be “a support point to pave the way for the continuity of the family business».
Guillén has described the main lines of the project Mentoring and Family Business Development Program. The general director of Ifedes states that «if each company is a world , a family is at least three worlds»: the family itself, the property or society, and the business development. The Ifedes program contemplates “advise, support and guide” the aspects key to each of these areas. Regarding the family, work on the adequate separation of personal and professional relationships, the generational transmission of the culture of effort, and the detection of the appropriate profiles depending on which functions in the same family, among other aspects, underlining < /span> .«that each one is resolved differently depending on the case»
Regarding ownership (shareholders, boards of directors that do not necessarily have to belong to the family), Guillén has placed emphasis on correct transfer of shares and diversification of profits after a valuation of the company «realistic«. Regarding business development, the study of improving market strategies where, as is almost mandatory at this time, digitalization and internationalization are the two star elements. He has insisted that Ifedes Group carries out these mentoring tasks “not in a standardized way, but like a tailored suit.” of each company.
Boronat has relied on statistics dating back to 2012 to define the profile of the family business model that has most affected the effects of the crisis: «the most competitive companies were those that earned up to 2 million annually, composed of 20 or fewer workers» and, what is more disturbing, right from 2012 < a i=4>«they were companies more than 20 years old; The problem is getting worse and due to the weight of this business model in our economy we cannot afford it. .
To this end, GB Consultores has designed a Program for the continuity of the family businessbetween entrepreneurs whose offspring are not prepared or interested in continuing to run the company and candidates who are, with a similar business culture. Therefore, it would also be a singular process, with different solutions depending on the case.Ivefa and the GB, which is based on the intermediation of
Noblejas has estimated that perhaps we are partly faced with a problem more for people than for companies: “we all know the typical scheme of the grandfather who founded the company, the son who succeeds him, and the grandson who sells it; Our goal is that even if the grandson does not want to continue, the company does. These programs have been designed against the lack of hope in the future, the disbelief of being able to save this business model in today's new environment.