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SUMMARY:Chamber Connect: Around the Region - Succession Planning
DESCRIPTION:Succession Planning in Family Business\n\nThursday\, August 21\, from 8-9 a.m.\, Country Inn and Suites - Albertville\n\n\n\nAre you thinking about your children or other family members becoming owners of your business? If so\, what steps should you take to make this a smooth transition? It's never too early to begin planning for succession.\n\n\n\nPreparation helps family businesses survive across generations. Only 30 percent of family businesses survive into the second generation and only 12 percent are still viable into the third.\n\n \n\n\nLearn what you should be thinking about as your company prepares for the transition of ownership. Join us Thursday\, August 21\, from 8-9 a.m. at the Country Inn and Suites in Albertville\, as Ritch Sorenson\, a family business professor at the University of St. Thomas\, gives a presentation about succession in family businesses. Sorenson is the academic director of the St. Thomas Family Business Center\, the only family business center in Minnesota.\n\n\n\nHe will discuss the important issues to consider related to:\n\n\n	estate planning\n	next generation owners\n	family business leaders\n\n \n\n\n\nGet helpful information to make the right decisions for your family\, the business and the future.\n\n\n\n\n\nChamber Connect: Around the Region is a fun and informal networking group open to all Members of the I-94 West Chamber of Commerce. \n\n\n\nMeetings usually include networking and a continental breakfast\, followed by introductions and time to exchange business leads and information.\n\n\n\nChamber Connect: Around the Region is hosted monthly by the Country Inn & Suites in Albertville and features presentations on a variety of topics by Chamber Members.\n\n \n                   \n\n \n \n\n\nWHY should you attend Chamber Connect?\n\n\n	You are interested in making new business connections and expanding your network.\n	You'd like to strengthen current relationships with Chamber Members. \n	You'd like to share an overview of your company's products and services with Chamber professionals.\n	You'd like to create new business opportunities and do the same for others by learning more about the businesses in your community.  \n\n\n \n\nAny Chamber Member is invited to host Chamber Connect: Around the Region  \n\n \n\n\n\n\n\n\nOpportunities to speak at Chamber Connect events are available. Please call 763-428-2921.
X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:<br />\n<span style="font-family:cambria\,serif\;"><span style="font-size:22.0pt\;">Succession Planning in Family Business</span></span><br />\n<span style="font-size:14.0pt\;">Thursday\, August 21\, from 8-9 a.m.\, Country Inn and Suites - Albertville</span><br />\n<br />\n<span style="font-size:12.0pt\;">Are you thinking about your children or other family members becoming owners of your business? If so\, what steps should you take to make this a smooth transition? It&rsquo\;s never too early to begin planning for succession.</span><br />\n<br />\n<span style="font-size:12.0pt\;">Preparation helps family businesses survive across generations. Only 30 percent of family businesses survive into the second generation and only 12 percent are still viable into the third.</span>\n\n<div style="border:none\;border-bottom:solid windowtext 1.0pt\;padding:0in 0in 1.0pt 0in\;margin-left:9.0pt\;margin-right:9.0pt\;">&nbsp\;</div>\n<br />\n<span style="font-size:12.0pt\;">Learn what you should be thinking about as your company prepares for the transition of ownership. Join us Thursday\, August 21\, from 8-9 a.m. at the Country Inn and Suites in Albertville\, as Ritch Sorenson\, a family business professor at the University of St. Thomas\, gives a presentation about succession in family businesses. Sorenson is the academic director of the St. Thomas Family Business Center\, the only family business center in Minnesota.</span><br />\n<br />\n<span style="font-size:12.0pt\;">He will discuss the important issues to consider related to:</span>\n\n<ul>\n	<li style="margin-right:9.0pt\;"><span style="font-size:12.0pt\;">estate planning</span></li>\n	<li style="margin-right:9.0pt\;"><span style="font-size:12.0pt\;">next generation owners</span></li>\n	<li style="margin-right:9.0pt\;"><span style="font-size:12.0pt\;">family business leaders</span></li>\n</ul>\n&nbsp\;<br />\n<br />\n<span style="font-size:12.0pt\;">Get helpful information to make the right decisions for your family\, the business and the future.</span><br />\n<br />\n<br />\n<span style="font-size:16px\;"><span style="font-family: verdana\;"><strong>Chamber Connect: Around the Region</strong> is a fun and informal networking group open to all Members of the I-94 West Chamber of Commerce.&nbsp\;<br />\n<br />\nMeetings usually include networking and a continental breakfast\, followed by introductions and time to exchange business leads and information.<br />\n<br />\n<strong>Chamber Connect: Around the Region</strong> is hosted monthly by the Country Inn &amp\; Suites in Albertville and features presentations on a variety of topics by Chamber Members.</span></span><br />\n&nbsp\;\n<div style="text-align: center"><span style="font-family: arial"><img alt="" height="130" src="http://cloud.chambermaster.com/userfiles/UserFiles/chambers/1321/Image/ChamberConnectATR.jpg" width="119" />&nbsp\;&nbsp\;&nbsp\;&nbsp\;&nbsp\;&nbsp\;&nbsp\;&nbsp\;&nbsp\;&nbsp\;&nbsp\;&nbsp\;&nbsp\;&nbsp\;&nbsp\;&nbsp\;&nbsp\;&nbsp\; <img alt="" src="http://cloud.chambermaster.com/userfiles/UserFiles/chambers/1321/Image/country_inns_suites2013.png" style="width: 150px\; height: 76px\;" /></span><br />\n&nbsp\;</div>\n&nbsp\;\n\n<div align="left" style="font-family: Century Gothic\,ITC Avant Garde\,Arial\,Helvetica\,sans-serif\; font-size: 16pt\; color: #005288\; text-align: left\;">\n<div align="center" style="text-align: center\;"><span style="font-size:16px\;"><strong>WHY</strong> should you attend <strong>Chamber Connect</strong>?</span></div>\n\n<ul>\n	<li><span style="font-size:16px\;">You are interested in making new business connections and expanding your network.</span></li>\n	<li><span style="font-size:16px\;">You&#39\;d like to strengthen current relationships with Chamber Members.&nbsp\;</span></li>\n	<li><span style="font-size:16px\;">You&#39\;d like to share an overview of your company&#39\;s products and services with Chamber professionals.</span></li>\n	<li><span style="font-size:16px\;">You&#39\;d like to create new business opportunities and do the same for others by learning more about the businesses in your community.&nbsp\;&nbsp\;</span></li>\n</ul>\n</div>\n&nbsp\;\n\n<p style="text-align: center\; margin-top: 0px\; margin-bottom: 0px\; font-size: 14pt\; color: #005288\; font-family: Century Gothic\,ITC Avant Garde\,Arial\,Helvetica\,sans-serif\;"><span style="font-size:16px\;"><span lang="en-US">Any Chamber Member is invited to host </span><span lang="en-US"><strong>Chamber Connect: Around the Region</strong>&nbsp\; </span></span></p>\n\n<p style="text-align: center\; margin-top: 0px\; margin-bottom: 0px\; font-size: 14pt\; color: #005288\; font-family: Century Gothic\,ITC Avant Garde\,Arial\,Helvetica\,sans-serif\;">&nbsp\;</p>\n<br />\n<br />\n<br />\n<span style="font-size:14px\;"><span style="font-size:16px\;"><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-family: verdana\;">Opportunities to speak at Chamber Connect events are available. Please call 763-428-2921.</span></span></span></span><br />\n&nbsp\;
LOCATION:Country Inn & Suites - Albertville 6554 Lamplight Drive Albertville\, MN
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