Major coup for family business forum

FORMER British Prime Minister John Major is to be the keynote speaker at the first national forum on family business issues.

Organised by the John C Kelleher Family Business Centre at the Department of Management and Marketing at University College Cork, the Irish Family Business Conference 2005 will take place in UCC on Friday, April 15.

The director of the Family Business Centre, Dr Joan Buckley, said the conference is aimed at all those working in family businesses, both family and non-family members, and at advisors to family businesses.