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LG Investments, LLC: A Family Business i...

Hess, Edward D.

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LG Investments, LLC: A Family Business in Generational Transition (D)

Hess, Edward D.

ENT-0134 | Published November 27, 2009 | 2 pages Case

Collection: Darden School of Business

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The D case in this series is appropriate for entrepreneurship and small-business management courses. At issue is how to balance personal financial needs of stockholders in a family business with the business's need for capital. The problems of how to include family shareholders who do not work in the business in financial distributions and whether families should create different classes of stock to pay different dividends to different classes of family shareholders are also part of the mix. Follows ENT-0123, ENT-0124 and ENT-0133.

Examine: how to balance the cash needs of the family members and the needs of the business whether to take into account generational differences when making distributions