Employee Ownership Blog

Oliver's Market, an employee-owned company with four grocery stores in California's Sonoma County, offered itself as a conduit for raising donations to support people affected by the wildfires in California's wine country.

The NCEO is proud to welcome one new member to our board of directors, along with four incumbents who will be returning. Suzanne McDowell, a co-CEO of King Arthur Flour, will be joining the board for the term beginning on April 1, 2018.

A bipartisan bill in the Maryland Senate (SB 498) was introduced January 28 to eliminate capital gains taxes on the sale of a business to an ESOP, a qualifying employee benefit trust, or a direct share purchase p

Launched in 2018, the academic Journal of Participation and Employee Ownership will publish "original empirical and theoretical research in the broad area of employee participation and shared capitalism." The editors are

Lifetouch, the sixth-largest majority employee-owned company in the U.S., has been sold to Shutterfly for $825 million. The company had over 16,000 participants in its ESOP.

The January 2018 edition of GardenCenter, available online, features a cover story on employee ownership, featuring three ESOP-owned companies (Gardeners Supply Company, Armstrong Garden Centers, and Pike Nu

In a story we at the NCEO hear surprisingly often, ESOP-owned Parksite is acquiring ESOP-owned Atlantic Plywood Corp., both of which are in industrial wood products.

On January 9, Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY) visited ESOP-owned Niagara Gear. The Senator has sponsored legislation to promote employee ownership.

In a new paper, Capital Gains: Broadening Company Ownership in the UK Economy, Matthew Lawrence and Nigel Mason of the IPPR Commission on Economic Justice propose broad policy proposals to share the benefits of capi

Australian's Group of 100, an organization of the chief financial officers of country's 100 largest companies, has called on the government to create more incentives for companies to share profits and provide equity compensation to employees.

The San Francisco Chronicle reported on January 13 that the coffee roaster and café company Four Barrel had settled a lawsuit alleging sexual harassment.

A January 12 article in The Business Journals discussed three ways the owner of a private company could cash out: an IPO, an outside buyer, and