Employee Ownership Blog

It might seem that convenience store chains are not the most likely business to find a high concentration of ESOPs. With their high turnover and dispersed locations, ESOPs might seem a challenge.

In a May 31 article in Morningstar, Company Stock Ownership: The Risks Outweigh the Rewards, Mark Miller cites unpublished research by Vanguard that finds 90% of partic

2017 was an exciting year for the NCEO and employee ownership.

The 2018 Vermont Employee Ownership Conference will be June 8 from 8:30 to 5:00 in Burlington, Vermont.

On May 8, the Main Street Employee Ownership Act (H. 5236) passed in the House of Representatives by a voice vote.

On May 4, the Department of Labor (DOL) reached a settlement with the insurers for Cactus Feeders, certain of its present and former directors, officers, and members of its ESOP committee, and Lubbock National Bank (the ESOP trustee), who with no admission of liability agreed to pay $5.4 million

Nine of the top 50 grocery chains are partly or majority employee-owned, according to a ranking from Progressive Grocer.

The Beyster Institute at UC San Diego's Rady School of Business has posted a job opening for its executive director.

Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY) toured employee-owned companies in New York on April 30 to promote the Main Street Employee Ownership Act (S. 2786), which she introduced to the Senate last week.

As part of the public launch of its 2030 goals, the 100,000-person company Danone announced its "one person, one share" program, under which "each of our employees will be granted one Danone sh

The ESOP Association Canada will host its annual conference on June 4 to 6 in Edmonton, Alberta.

The Department of Labor alleges that the trustee of the ESOP at Sentry Equipment Erectors should not have relied on the valuation report for a $21 million transaction. In the case (Acosta v. Vinoskey, No. 6:16-cv-00062-NKM-RSB, 2018 BL 134718 [W.D. Va. Apr.