Employee Ownership Blog

An online survey of more than 2,000 respondents found that many consumers say they would pay a premium for products from employee-owned companies. Almost half of respondents (48%) said they would be willing to pay more, and 18% percent said they would pay more than 20% extra.

The European Federation of Employee Share Ownership (EFES) released its 2016 Barometer of Employee Share Ownership Policies in Europe.

Wal-Mart has closed many of its small-footprint Wal-Mart Express stores, and Arkansas-based Harps Food Stores, a 100% employee-owned company, has announced that it will purchase nine of those locations.

On April 14, 2016, Timothy Hauser of the US Department of Labor addressed the NCEO's annual conference.

In a Washington Times op-ed, Rep.

Employee ownership has long been a feature of craft brewing in the United States, with many breweries owned in full or part by their employees (see, for example,

David Thodey, the former chief executive of Telsta, increased participation in the company's equity compensation plan from below 30% to over 90% over six years, making 27,000 people employee-owners.

An article in Inside Philanthropy explored the increased interest by foundation and other philanthropic organizations in employee ownershi

In an Op-Ed in the Manila Times, Boyet Murcia argues that although the legal structures are in place for employee ownership in the Philippines, very few companies

On Friday, the Missouri legislature passed HB 2030, the Stock Ownership Tax Deduction Act.

In his article More worker-owned businesses are sprouting, reporter Paul Davidson starts with yogurt-maker Chobani's

On May 3, the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals in Perez v. Bruister, No. 14-60811 (5th Cir. 2016) upheld a district court ruling (Perez v. Bruister, 54 F. Supp. 3d 629 [S.D. Miss.