Ultimate Business Club

Family Business


1980 - Gérard Glotin, Chairman of Marie Brizard (creator of first anisette in 1755) identified 74 companies with company longevity (minimum age of 200 years), permanence (family must be owner of company or majority share holder, one member of founder must still manage company or be member of board), in good financial health, modern; 30 selected; 1981 - first meeting of Heniokiens Association of Family and Bicentenary companies in Bordeaux; named for Henok (or Enoch), great patriarchs (Caïn’s son, Methuselah’s father, lived before flood, was 365 years old when he ascended to Heaven without having died); 2007 - 40 members in craft industries, trades, services, publishing, heavy industry: 15 Italian, 10 French, 4 German, 1 Dutch, 1 from Northern Ireland, 4 Japanese, 1 Belgian, 2 Swiss (at head of their companies, unique, dynamic managers).


Henokiens Association of Family and Bicentenary Companies http://www.henokiens.com
Members of the Henokiens Association, meet four criteria: they have reached a minimum age of 200 years, they are managed by a descendant of the founder, the family still owns the company or is the majority share holder and they are in good financial health.