Following up on KPMG’s series of technical publications on family businesses, we are pleased to present the second edition of “Family Portraits”, a survey conducted with the support of the ACI Institute and KPMG’s Board Leadership Center, aimed at consolidating and analyzing information provided by the businesses included in the survey, in order to provide interested parties with a panorama of the businesses’ profiles, backgrounds, views on the country’s political and economic environment, governance structures and future outlooks, and to provide members of these closely held companies with benchmarks in governance practices of such organizations.