11.  Blount started a National Postal Art Show, and began collecting paintings when he want back to his family company in Montgomery, Ala.

12.  Beyond capital, the other big requirement of family companies is management expertise.

13.  All over Texas, small family companies that have kept three generations going have been forced into bankruptcy by the long depression in oil prices.

14.  But because the family owned company guards its war chest tightly, he would not divulge any numbers.

15.  But tax avoidance appears to be the reason for structuring the family company transactions.

16.  But succession fights, family eccentricities and other pitfalls can hurt a family company.

17.  Ceding control is possibly the most troubling issue for family companies that are making the transition from the first to the second generation.

18.  Dominated by small family companies, the diamond district in Manhattan, for example, has remained largely insulated from the Wall Street-driven trends of global capitalism.

19.  Durst may also have driven by the Katonah home of his younger brother, Douglas, who now leads the family company.

20.  European stock exchanges were not interested in an obscure family company in Munich that distributes American movies to German theaters.