DURHAM, N.H. - The University of New Hampshire Center for Family Business will host a discussion about developing effective ownership teams consisting of siblings and cousins Wednesday, Nov. 30, 2001.

"Sibling and Cousin Partnerships in the Family Business" will be held at Makris Lobster and Steak House, 354 Sheep Davis Road (Route 106), Concord. The event begins at 8 a.m. with a continental breakfast, with the program following at 8:30 a.m. The program ends at noon, followed by lunch and networking.

Speakers Moitoza and Andrew Lee will discuss how to understand and develop sibling and cousin ownership teams. Topics to be covered include the complexity, history and passion underlying sibling and or cousin relationships in business; common traps that siblings/cousins can fall into; and pragmatic processes, procedures and tools that can help to improve both the personal relationship and business partnership between siblings and or cousins.

Please RSVP by Nov. 15, 2011. To register or become a member of the Center for Family Business, call Barbara Draper at 603-862-1107, or barbara.draper@unh.edu. For first-time attendees, the cost is $99 per person and $250 per company for nonmembers.

The Center for Family Business, under the UNH Whittemore School of Business and Economics and the UNH Graduate School, is sponsored by Mass Mutual Financial Group; Moitoza Consulting; Baker Newman & Noyes; Pierce Atwood; Management Planning, Inc.; and Optima Bank and Trust. It is a membership program to provide owners and managers of entrepreneurial businesses with an opportunity to exchange ideas and information and to discuss business challenges, concerns, and solutions. For more information, visit http://www.familybusiness.unh.edu/.

The University of New Hampshire, founded in 1866, is a world-class public research university with the feel of a New England liberal arts college. A land, sea, and space-grant university, UNH is the state's flagship public institution, enrolling 12,200 undergraduate and 2,300 graduate students.

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