The European Federation of Employed Shareholders (EFES) reported on March 8 that 2017 "was a new record year for employee share ownership in Europe, with nearly €400 billion [$500 USD] held by employees in their company or 3.2%."
Publix Supermarkets, number 1 on the NCEO's list of the 100 largest employee-owned companies in the US, is considering opening a distribution center in Greensboro, North Carolina, and the mayor hopes they do.
The largest shipbuilder in South Korea, Hyundai Heavy Industries, announced that it had raised 1.2 trillion won ($1.13 billion) through an issuance of new shares.
In 2012, the NCEO started keeping a database of all the people who have spoken at one of our in-person or online events, and that list now includes 998 people, from Abbott to Zorn.
Santa Clara University's Certified Equity Professional Institute has led the equity compensation field's efforts to professionalize the administration of equity compensation plans.
The Department of Labor entered into a new settlement agreement with an ESOP fiduciary, in this case Alpha Investment Consulting Group. The settlement arises out of a case alleging improper valuation and loan terms in the case of Acosta v.
LD 1338, "An Act To Create and Sustain Jobs through Development of Cooperatives and Employee-owned Businesses," has been introduced in the Maine legislature.
Thirty-seven of 76 companies on the annual Fortune Best 100 Companies to Work For list have some form of broad-based employee ownership. That percentage has varied very little since the 1990s, in part because the list does not change dramatically from year to year.
The Clicks Group, an 8,000-employee South Africa-based retailer of health and wellness products across Africa, has announced that employees will receive a payout of $1.3 billion rand ($110 million dollars) as the first of one of two installment distributions of their employee stock ownership plan
