Bringing the family business forward to a new generation

“Everyone is driven to serve our customers, always going the extra mile. Nobody sits still for long in the hotel business,” says Helen Wycherley of the Celtic Ross Hotel

Gerry Wytcherley, Neil Grant, general manager, and Helen Wytcherley, celebrating Celtic Ross Hotel’s 25th anniversary in March 2021.

Family businesses have always been great innovators, adapting their skills and resources to look beyond survival to show ambition to expand.

This innate ingenuity was very evident among the 53 CEOs and 198 employees who responded to ‘Surviving a Crisis as a Family Business’, a seven-month study conducted by DCU National Centre for Family Business, along with colleagues at Ulster University, the Northern Ireland Family Business Forum, and the University of Central Florida.