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Robert Hewitt Wolfe

These include action-packed episodes with high story-arc importance ("The Way of the Warrior", "Call to Arms"), dramatic character studies ("The Wire", "Hard Time") and even comic farces ("Family Business", "Little Green Men").


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Adolphe Schneider

Adolphe's grandson Jacques Schneider (1879–1928) inherited the family business, and was a balloonist and aircraft enthusiast who created the Schneider Trophy.

Air Age Media

Air Age Media was founded in 1929 as a family business by George C. Johnson in New York, NY with the launch of Model Airplane News.

Arthur Forwood

He was educated at Liverpool Collegiate and then joined the family business.

Asian Diasporas

Asian Diasporas's broadcast history to date consists of Family which looked at Japanese people in Latin America and elsewhere; Business, which examined Korean family business in the USA; and Politics, which focused on Chinese dissident activists in the USA and Europe.

Ben Dunkelman

After the war Dunkelman was offered, but refused, a commission in the peacetime Israeli Army; the Dunkelmans returned instead to Toronto where he went into the family business, which he expanded then sold to Dylex Limited in 1967.

Biyer Phool

She also runs the family business with the help of her friend and general manager Ashit Mukherjee (Sabyasachi Chakrabarty).

C. J. McLin

McLin's family moved to Dayton, Ohio in 1931, where he attended Dunbar High School and worked at the family business, the McLin Funeral Home, founded by his father.

Camborne

Holmans, a family business founded in 1801, was for generations, Camborne's, and indeed Cornwall's largest manufacturer of industrial equipment, even making the famous Sten submachine gun for a stint during the Second World War.

Carmex

Then in 1957, the family business moved out of the kitchen and into a rented facility in the Milwaukee suburb of Wauwatosa.

Charles Paget Wade

In 1911 Wade's father died and he inherited a share in the family business based on sugar estates on the island of St Kitts in the West Indies.

Charles Reizenstein Company

The Reizenstein family business was used as a means for philanthropic work in Allegheny and Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

Clive Chin

After his family business moved to New York City, Chin spent some fifteen years running a Jamaican restaurant in Queens.

Colombo Yogurt

Colombo Yogurt originated from a family business run by Rose and Sarkis Colombosian, Armenian immigrants who lived in Andover, Massachusetts.

Daryl Blonder

Daryl Mark Blonder, the son of Edward and Janice Blonder, graduated from East Lyme High School in 1999, and worked for a McDonalds restaurant in East Lyme, Connecticut, Regal Cinemas in Waterford, and occasionally in the family business, Design Essence Inc.

Dick Donald

Donald senior expanded the family business by opening a chain of cinemas, and also owned His Majesty's Theatre and an ice rink in the city.

E. I. du Pont de Nemours Company

I. du Pont de Nemours Company was the holding company formed in the early 1900s by T. Coleman du Pont, Alfred I. du Pont and Pierre S. du Pont to save the family business from being bought out by a rival.

Formation 8

Koo previously founded InnovationHub, which helped his family business LS Group, source investment opportunities.

Fritz Mühlenweg

He was educated as a chemist in Bielefeld and took over the family business after his father died.

George Eustice

Before entering politics, he worked for nine years in the family business, Trevaskis Fruit Farm near Connor Downs.

Giles Chichester

Since 1969 worked in family business Francis Chichester Ltd (publishers of maps, guides and educational wallcharts), founded by his father Sir Francis Chichester KBE, and still lives in the family home at 9 St James's Place, London SW1.

Günter Mast

He was the Chief Executive of the family business Mast-Jägermeister, known as producer of the liquor Jägermeister.

Hans Rausing

Much of the enormous success of Tetra Pak in the 1970s and 1980s has been credited to the leadership of Hans and Gad Rausing, who literally took the company from a six-person family business to a global multi-national corporation.

James Rogers Armstrong

His son, also named James Rogers Armstrong, took over the family business in 1856, when his father retired to Whitby.

John Apthorp

He first enjoyed success as a founding member and managing director of the family business of frozen food stores Bejam, which became a market leader in the United Kingdom, trading from hundreds of stores across the country.

John Bly

He attended Berkhamsted School and his career began with Sotheby's, where he worked for four years before joining his family business in Tring (John Bly Antiques, started by John Bly's great grandfather).

Julio Mario Santo Domingo

He remarried on 15 February 1975 to Colombian socialite Beatrice Dávila Rocha, and together they had two sons, Alejandro Santo Domingo Dávila (b. 1977) who has continued on in the family business and Andrés Santo Domingo Dávila (b. 1978) the co-founder and president of Kemado Records.

Karuna Ratna Tuladhar

After a brief period of schooling under Jagat Lal Master, Karuna Ratna Tuladhar went to Lhasa and joined the family business.

Lo Faber

For a time in the mid 80's after graduating high school he worked for the family business, the Eberhard Faber GmbH pencil company, but was "pretty miserable wearing a suit and selling pencils" and by 1986 he'd enrolled at the Manhattan School of Music to study jazz with future God Street Wine bassist Dan Pifer.

Lucas Auer

He is the son of Berger's sister Claudia, who runs a transport company in Wörgl in Tyrol – not far from Berger's own family business.

Michael DiGiorgio

He worked on BART with Kaiser Sand & Gravel, spent time as a stockbroker, worked for the family business at DiGiorgio Corp., managed Sun Aire commuter airliner out of Palm Springs, California, worked for aircraft speculators out of London, UK before finally moving to Novato in 1989 and purchasing a video store.

Mildred Veitch

She was the daughter of Peter Veitch and his wife, Harriett Drew, and after completing her education joined the family business in Exeter.

Mitford Hall

Since 1993 it has been owned by Shepherd Offshore, the Shepherd family business run by Bruce and Freddy Shepherd.

Newhall Publications

In November 2006, the firm was awarded the J. P. Morgan Family Business Honours Award for Social Responsibility.

Nowhere Man: The Final Days of John Lennon

The book disputes the official view of Lennon as a contented househusband raising his son Sean and baking bread while Yoko ran the family business.

Pietro Marubi

Marubi was assisted by the young Rrok Kodheli (1862–1881) and his brother, Kel Kodheli (1870–1940), the latter of whom took over the family business after Pietro's death and changed his name to Kel Marubi.

Post Register

In 1984 Jim Brady died and shortly thereafter his son, Jerry Brady, entered the family business.

Ralph W. Hull

He was also involved in his family business, the well known Hull Pottery manufacturing company out of Ohio.

Road to Singapore

Then Josh, who is the son of rich shipping magnate Charles Coburn, has to fend off his fiancee, Gloria (Judith Barrett), and his father's wishes that he settle down and take over the family business.

Robert Worth Bingham

As the family business crumbled publicly in the 1980s, several biographers, most notably David Leon Chandler, claimed Bingham had killed his wife for the money, either by overdose or withholding medical care.

Siemens Healthcare

The company dates its early beginnings 1847 to a small family business in Berlin, co-founded by Ernst Werner von Siemens.

Springvale Station

The family business, Quilty and Sons acquired Springvale in 1948 from W. J. McAdam in 1948.

Takeno Jōō

While carrying on the family business in Sakai, Jōō, whose common name was Shingorō (新五郎), did religious duty as an attendant at the Honganji temple in the Yamashina region of Kyoto.

The Day of Days

However, she sacrifices her youth to take care of her family business, above which she has even spoiled her sister – Tong Nga-man (Lin Xiawei).

The Edw. Malley Co.

Malley's was a family business until 1971, when Edward Malley died, and it was sold to developer Richard Stevens, the man responsible for construction of the 1962 building.

United States Senate election in Alaska, 2004

Mike Miller, younger brother of Terry Miller, involved in the family business in North Pole, also served in the Alaska House of Representatives and Alaska Senate from 1983 to 2001 and was the Republican nominee for lieutenant governor in 1994

Villa Welgelegen

John Hope carried on the Hope & co. family business in Amsterdam together with Alexander Baring and Adriaan van der Hoop, young partners in the firm.

Wilhelm Pfitzer

His son, Wilhelm III Pfitzer (11 August 1854 - 4 April 1921), for a period of seven years, worked for the famous Louis Van Houtte nursery in Ghent, Belgium, and others in Holland, France and northern Germany, acquiring a rich experience he was able to bring with him when he returned to the family business along with many specimens of exotic plants.

William Foster Cockshutt

He worked for a produce firm and in a tea warehouse in England before returning to Ontario and entering the family business in partnership with his brother James.