Blog
New FBA Video explains why family businesses should join
FBA has prepared a new video to promote membership in the Association. Produced by Marquee Media US, it features several FBA officers, board members, and company owners saying why FBA is crucial to the continued success of family businesses in California and how more...
The Developing Trade War & Interest Rates
Elliot Eisenberg, Ph.D., GraphsandLaughs, LLC August 1, 2018 The U.S. economy is, at present, growing very rapidly, and 2018 is shaping up to be the best year for economic growth since 2006. As a result, the Federal Reserve is a lock to raise rates by a...
FBA lobbyists look ahead to August
By Dennis Albiani and Faith Lane Borges The Legislature has adjourned for a month long summer recess and will return on August 6th for the final four weeks of this legislative year. A month "off of work" is hardly the summer dream it sounds like. All statewide...
Legislative Session Starts ‘Second Half’
By Dennis Albiani and Faith Lane Borges Apart from the spirited farewell speech from former Senator Josh Newman, who was recalled in the primary election last week, the days of vigorous debate and floor fights appear to be over in the deep blue California Legislature....
FBA leader testifies against services taxÂ
FBA Government Affairs Chair Grant Deary testified last week before the Senate Governance and Finance Committee in opposition to SB 993 (Hertzberg). The bill would impose a 3 percent tax on professional services purchased by businesses in exchange for a 2 percent...
FBA becoming more influential, lobbyists say at Family Business Day
FBA is earning the respect of business allies and opponents in the never-ending struggle to enact pro-business legislation and defeat bills that would make it even harder to do business in California, the Association’s lobbyists told FBA members on May 2 during the...
Lund Construction marks 60th year in business with view to the future
Now in its third generation and celebrating its 60th year in business, Lund Construction Co. – like so many family businesses – began as a home-based business. The year was 1958 and George and Alta Lund began the Sacramento-area business with just a motor grader and a...
Trade Wars: It’s All About Leverage
Elliot Eisenberg | GraphsandLaughs, LLC | May 2018 Editor's note: Here is economist Elliot Eisenberg's latest column for FBA members. With the U.S.-China trade war looking increasingly ominous, two questions are on the minds of many: do trade deficits matter and which...
FBA Member Lippow Development Co. is truly an only-in-America success story.
While Lippow Development Co. is officially celebrating its 70thanniversary this year, the Martinez-based family business really began decades earlier, when family patriarch Leo Lippow opened a bike shop outside of Milwaukee, Wis. During the first decade of the...
Pini Hardware: Owned by different families along the way but a family business for 100 years
Sometimes, a family business is owned by several families along the way. Such is the case with Pini Ace Hardware in Novato, which is celebrating its 100thanniversary this year. Russ Young, Pini’s CFO and treasurer and a member of the third generation of his family to...
Jobs: They’re Not What They Used to Be
Elliot Eisenberg, Ph.D. |Â GraphsandLaughs, LLC |Â April 2018 During every business cycle, economies experience job losses followed by subsequent job gains such that, in time, all job losses are made up, and then some. Between January 2008 and February 2010, almost nine...
Five companies join Family Business Association of California
 Recognize need to be part of only statewide group focusing solely on family businesses Five more companies have recently joined the Family Business Association of California, the only statewide organization that solely focuses on the impacts of new laws and...