Employee Ownership Blog

Employee-owned brewery Full Sail Brewing was awarded the title of Craft Brewer of the Year by Beverage World Magazine. Full Sail CEO Irene Firmat, a keyno

President Obama's proposed 2015 budget includes some provisions that would affect ESOP companies.

The economics and finance policy committee, composed of members of the governing Liberal/National coalition in the Australian Parliament, met in early March to call for reforms that would encourage more equity compensation and employee ownership in Australia.

The NCEO has completed a detailed comparison of how ESOPs fare as retirement plans compared to other defined contribution plans. The analysis includes both a detailed narrative and tabular comparison.

The Certified Equity Professional Institute at Santa Clara University will hold its 10th annual symposium from 8:00 AM to 5:00 PM (with a reception to follow) on March 25.

In a March 13 report, the BBC cited Ross Brown, who led a team of researchers from St Andrews, Edinburgh Napier, and Stirling universities in a project on employee ownership in Scotland.

David Camp (R-Michigan), the chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee, introduced a thousand-page "discussion draft" of his comprehensive proposal on tax reform.

Speaking to the American Bar Association Section of Labor and Employment Benefits Committee in New Orleans in February, Department of Labor Deputy Assistant Secretary for the Employee Benefits Security Administration (EBSA) Tim Hauser said ESOP valuations have been "an area of chronic problems" t

One of the most compelling books on management and innovation is Ideas Are Free by Dean Schroeder and Alan Robinson.

The White Rose Employee Ownership Centre at the University of York (United Kingdom) will host a conference on April 2 and 3 featuring research and man

A new report from PLANSPONSOR magazine shows that ESOP companies are more likely than non-ESOP companies to offer secondary defined contribution and defined benefit plans. They are also are substantially more likely to offer health savings accounts (HSAs).

Google topped the annual Fortune list of the 100 Best Companies to Work For. Just behind Google are 40 more companies with employee ownership plans, including Edward Jones (#4), Genentech (#6), Salesforce.com (#7), Intuit (#8), and majority employee-owned Robert W. Baird (#9).