Zack Needles

Philadelphia

Editor-in-Chief at Family Business Magazine

Editor-in-Chief, https://t.co/vRNxIMVDxX

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Articles

How to 'earn your stripes' as a NextGen

1 week ago | familybusinessmagazine.com | Zack Needles

Matthew Nix is president & CEO of fifth-generation NIX Companies, which started as a blacksmith shop in Indiana in the late 1800s and has since grown into a family holding company focused on service-oriented businesses, real-estate and other supporting services. Much of that expansion has taken place within the past two decades, under the guidance of the current generation.
How NextGens took NIX Companies to the next level

1 week ago | familybusinessmagazine.com | Zack Needles

Matthew Nix is president & CEO of fifth-generation NIX Companies, which started as a blacksmith shop in Indiana in the late 1800s and has since grown into a family holding company focused on service-oriented businesses, real-estate and other supporting services. Much of that expansion has taken place within the past two decades, under the guidance of the current generation.
Episode 18: Rebranding the Family Business | A NextGen in a New Industry | Discussing Wealth’s Impact

1 week ago | familybusinessmagazine.com | Zack Needles

In this episode of the Family Business/Business Family podcast, brothers Tom Cingari Jr. and John Cingari of Cingari Family Markets talk about the fourth generation's efforts to spearhead a major rebranding of the 82-year-old family business that is aimed at reaching the modern customer while honoring their family's legacy. This episode also features part 2 of our conversation Brandi Harleaux, second-generation CEO of South Post Oak Recycling Center.
Family business focal points for 2025

1 week ago | familybusinessmagazine.com | Zack Needles

Running a multigenerational family business has never been easy, but the quickening pace of change in today's world has created new layers of complexity. In this interview, Deloitte Private U.S. Family Enterprise Leader Laura Pearson discusses the top priorities for family businesses in 2025 as they navigate those changes. Family Business: What are some of the top priorities for family businesses in 2025?
Family business, the ‘Toyota Way’

2 weeks ago | familybusinessmagazine.com | Zack Needles

Andrew Koenig is the second-generation CEO of Tamarac, Fla.-based CITY Furniture. In this interview, Koenig discusses how he drew upon Toyota's management philosophy and organizational structure to transform the family-owned furniture and mattress retailer into a more nimble, efficient and innovative organization. A portion of this interview originally appeared on the Family Business/Business Family podcast.
Episode 17: Welcoming a Non-Family Leader After 80 Years | Adding Value to the Family Business | A Report From Capitol Hill

3 weeks ago | familybusinessmagazine.com | Zack Needles

In the latest episode of the Family Business/Business Family podcast, we sit down with John Darby and Dan Doyle of The Beach Company, a Charleston, S.C.-based residential and commercial real estate company celebrating its 80th anniversary this year. Along with that milestone, the company has announced a leadership change: Dan Doyle is taking over the role of president from John Darby, who held the position for 33 years. Doyle is the first non-family leader of the business.
The cool factor

3 weeks ago | familybusinessmagazine.com | Zack Needles

We talk a lot about driving engagement — especially of NextGens — in the family business. And for good reason: preserving a legacy requires continued buy-in from each successive generation, which becomes increasingly difficult to achieve the further a family enterprise gets from its founders. I also think most parents can relate to the notion that getting your kids to be as passionate as you are about a topic can be challenging.
A circuitous path to CEO

4 weeks ago | familybusinessmagazine.com | Zack Needles

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Distilling the family spirit

1 month ago | familybusinessmagazine.com | Zack Needles

There are a couple of natural assumptions one might be tempted to make about Brown-Forman Corporation upon first impression. For one, you might expect the family behind iconic whiskey brands like Jack Daniel’s, Old Forester and Woodford Reserve to be centrally located in either Kentucky (the business is based in Louisville) or Tennessee (home of the Jack Daniel Distillery).
No man is an island

1 month ago | familybusinessmagazine.com | Zack Needles

When Bill Weinaug was working as an architectural engineer in the 1990s, he became aware of and concerned about the damaging environmental effect of carbon emissions, a significant portion of which came from buildings like the ones he was helping design at the time. “I started to understand that we can do better from an engineering standpoint,” he recalls. “We could significantly reduce the amount of carbon that these buildings are dumping into the atmosphere.