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OK, every family has its problems. Toyota, which started as a division of the Toyota Automatic Loom Works, managed to develop a worldwide presence and reputation, survived a number of seismic ...

The secretive Cargill family still owns 88% of the company, but the wealth has passed down through three and four generations now. Part went to W.W.'s son Austen, whose two children both died in 2006.

Jonathan Saperstein, 30, wrested control of the tree business his dad started three years ago, and turned TreeTown USA into a powerhouse that expects $120 million in sales this year.

Sometimes the offspring of the wealthy develop a taste for ventures outside the family ring fence. A case in point would be Wee Teng Wen, grandson of Singapore's No. 4, Wee Cho Yaw.Although his ...

Family Dollar Store Closures. There are around 8,000 Family Dollar locations across the U.S., but the chain has struggled amid ambitious expansion plans and Dollar Tree had already announced in ...

A good way to get paleontologists stirred up? Talk about rearranging the 130-year-old dinosaur family tree. A new paper in Nature by scientists at University of Cambridge and the Natural History ...

According to the Forbes America's Richest Families List, the Sheetz folks are richer than Wawa clan, plus Comcast's Roberts family makes its first appearance.