NCEO Announces 2012 Employee Ownership 100

We have just released our annual update of the Employee Ownership 100, a list of the 100 largest majority employee-owned companies in the U.S. The companies on the list, once again led by Publix Super Markets, employ a total of 687,000 people worldwide. Companies that were on this list in both 2011 and 2012 saw their employment rise by an average of 6.3%. To be on the list, companies must be at least 50% owned by an ESOP or other qualified plan or by one or more other kinds of plans in which at least 50% of full-time employees are eligible to participate.