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Series: Family-Owned Companies - Henkelhausen engine services

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July 18, 2012

Lutz Goebel is president of "Die Familienunternehmer", an advocacy group for family-owned businesses. He says policy-makers neglect family-owned companies.

Family-owned businesses supply 60 percent of jobs in Germany, and 80 percent of trainee positions. That makes them the backbone of German industry. Report by Bettina Thoma.

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