Your family business is one-of-a-kind, shaped by the close connection between business and personal interests. While this makes managing your business distinct, it also presents unique challenges. Our specialists assist your family business at every stage, from growth to succession, helping you reach your goals.
Sustainable development and streamlined management
Our specialists will work together with you to prepare your family business for the future. Whether it’s restructuring your business to maximise tax benefits or professionalising financial reporting, we provide valuable insights into tax optimisation. This includes strategies such as enhancing entrepreneurial deductions or structuring dividend distributions.
Additionally, we support you in establishing transparent reporting, conducting audits, and forecasting strategic decisions. Protecting family assets and managing risks are key aspects of this process. Through solutions like asset diversification and legal protection structures, such as a business succession scheme (Bedrijfsopvolgingsregeling; BOR) or family trust, your business and family interests are securely safeguarded.
Strategies for succession and future sustainability
Succession and future-proof strategies
One of the biggest challenges for family businesses is transitioning to the next generation. This requires careful planning and clear agreements. We assist you in creating family charters to outline roles, responsibilities, and decision-making processes.
Moreover, we help you structure the transfer through gifts or holding structures. By strategically utilising tax schemes like the business succession scheme (Bedrijfsoverdrachtregeling; BOR), you can minimise taxes and ensure a smooth transition.
We also focus on the future of the family business by preparing the next generation for leadership. Through mentoring programmes, training, and encouraging gaining work experience outside the family business, we help establish a strong foundation for future successors.
Collaborating for community and business success
Family businesses often play a key role in driving both economic growth and societal development. We assist you in creating CSR strategies and setting up charitable family organisations. At the same time, we ensure your business remains prepared for the future by supporting strategic decisions such as international expansion, securing investors, or planning an exit strategy.
At Govers, we blend expertise in the areas of tax, finance, and strategy with a profound understanding of the unique dynamics within family businesses. Together, we ensure your business not only flourishes today but is also built on a strong foundation for generations to come.
“It seems as though Govers and we share the same DNA.”
Aerofilm and Govers
At Aerofilm Systems, just 1 kilogram of force is enough to move 1,000 kilograms without damaging the floor. This is achieved using air cushions, explains Commercial Director Bart van Kempen, using an air hockey table in the Eindhoven-based company’s showroom as an example. “With a table like that, the surface blows air upward, causing the puck to float. We do the opposite: our cushions blow air toward the ground, reducing friction to 0.001.” This is how Aerofilm moves objects weighing hundreds of thousands of kilograms all over the world. At London’s Olympic Stadium, the company moved fourteen seating modules weighing a combined 650,000 kilograms in a single weekend with a team of ten people instead of the usual hundred. Worldwide, no more than a handful of companies can do this.
