The opening line of Merryn Somerset Webb's September 28 review in the Financial Times (subscription required) of the Labour Party's proposed policy to promote employee ownership is "If there is one thing
The flagship company of the UK's employee ownership movement, which recently rebranded itself as John Lewis & Partners/Waitrose & Parners, released a new television advertisement.
Inc. magazine ran a detailed insider account of the time in 2000 when now ESOP-owned Clif Bar decided against a third-party sale. At the eleventh hour, Gary Erickson, who owned 50% of the company, called off a sale to Quaker Oats.
The UK Labour Party's shadow chancellor John McDonnell unveiled a plan to dramatically increase employee ownership in the United Kingdom by setting up "ownership f
In June, Mark and Perri Barnes sold their business, Barnes Inc., to its 175 employees. In an interview, Mark Barnes describes why he made that decision:
The New York/New Jersey Center for Employee Ownership at Rutgers will host its second annual employee ownership conference in New Brunswick, NJ, on October 26.
The Main Street Employee Ownership Act became law as part of the John S. McCain National Defense Authorization Act, signed by President Trump on August 13. The bill has been covered by a number of news organizations, including the following:
In an August 31 Forbes article, A New Push For Employee Ownership in Chicago, Anne Field reports that the Cook County Commission on Social Innovation is worki
A new policy paper, Expanding Employee Ownership: Toward a Stronger American Economy, builds the case for employee ownership and proposes three rarely explored policy options for creating more of it.
On August 7, the UK's Coop News ran a story about worker ownership in the United States, noting that the number of worker cooperatives had grown dramatically from 350 in
