“Gerard Mulliez is often called the Sam Walton of France. The Mulliez family has businesses with annual revenues of about $60 billion and more than a quarter million employees. You’ve probably never heard of them. And you’ve almost certainly never seen a picture of them. They’re discreet, private and unassuming. The family has been in business for two centuries. But only in the last 50 years has it built one of the world’s biggest and most profitable family-business empires. And it has done it while also creating one of the biggest and most successful families. I have identified six secrets to the Mulliez family’s success.”
http://www.bonnerandpartners.com/6-success-secrets-of-a-22-billion-family/
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