When Belfast accountants and business advisers Harbinson Mulholland first looked at their client list and decided that a forum for family businesses might be a good idea, they probably didn’t imagine that it would become an integral – and important – part of the fabric of business life in Northern Ireland.
“Family businesses don’t just dominate our own client list,” says Harbinson Mulholland’s Senior Partner, Darren McDowell. “They also dominate the Northern Ireland economy. What the Family Business Forum has done is to provide exactly what its name suggests – a forum for like-minded business people. “The Forum might represent an extraordinary range of family-owned enterprises from every sector and every region, but what we’ve discovered is that they have a heck of a lot in common with each other.”
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