Employee Ownership Blog

John Zogby Strategies released a report on polling data of employee-owners at companies that are members of Employee-Owned S Corporations of America (ESCA) and compared the r

On May 22, the NCEO issued a special bulletin announcing new research.

On May 18, Colorado Gov. John Hickenlooper signed into law H.B. 1214.

Letitia James, the public advocate for New York City, has proposed that the city both provide education for business owners about employee ownership and facilitate financing for employee ownership transactions.

Columnist Lee Schafer wrote on May 24 about employee ownership as a possible answer for baby boomers selling their businesses, noting that "t

The Rutgers School of Management and Labor Relations' New Jersey/New York Center for Employee Ownership is hosting an employee ownership event on J

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In the wake of its loss in the federal District Court of New Jersey, First Bankers Trust announced in a May 8 open letter that it had "decided to suspend the engagement of our services for transactions related to new ESOPs," although it will "continue to provide our full compliment of services to

On Friday, May 12, Gardener Denver, a 6000-person industrial firm based in Milwaukee, WI, went public.

In a decision that appears to the first of its kind for ESOPs, a district court has held that Michael New, an employee of Evolve Bank and Trust, can potentially be deemed personally to be a fiduciary for an ESOP in a disputed valuation case. In Hugler v.

The City of Boston has a new program to "build and grow your worker cooperative or employee-owned firm." The program plans to provide technical support and capital, encourage conversio

ESOP companies Dansko (shoes), Essential Ingredients (personal care products ingredients), H.B.