A Business Blog for SMEs & Family Businesses

In the recent 2026 Family Business Survey family business leaders demonstrated clear awareness on the importance of training. Survey respondents overwhelmingly agreed that “besides training for our employees, it is also important that family business owners and directors get trained on how to lead a family business” (scoring a decisive 1.87 on a 1-to-5 scale, where 1...

This week we had a very successful and well attended Family Business Conference, which was co-organised by the Malta Chamber, EMCS Advisory and the Family Business Office. During this conference we unveiled the results of the 202...

One of the most consequential decisions a family business owner and leader faces is determining when to hand over the reins. In family businesses, that choice is layered with emotional weight, generational history, and founder identity. Yet as the author Adi Ignatius highlights in his latest Harvard Business Review article, overstaying leadership also carries org...

For over a decade, the Maltese economy has operated under an expansionary model fuelled by rapid population growth and intense domestic demand. For local family businesses, this climate created an operating environment where increasing turnover appeared almost inevitable. However, juxtaposing the recently published Central Bank of Malta’s analysis of the EUROPOP2025 demog...