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One of the most remarkable people in the employee ownership community is Fred Braun. Braun has bought four companies over the last 17 years, three of which were in bankruptcy.

The newly formed Employee Ownership Expansion Network (EOeX) has hired Steve Storkan as its executive director.

For the 2011-2012 academic year, Rutgers University School of Management and Labor Relations will host three sets of fellowships for doctoral students; recent Ph.D.

Forbes magazine's list of the largest privately held companies (ranked by revenue) includes 10 companies that have some degree of employee ownership, including 6 that are majority-owned by their employees. Retail, especially supermarkets, is the most common industry.

The announcement by the South African energy giant Sasol that it is giving its 27,000 employees an estimated 4 billion Rand worth of stock (about $561 million) is the latest sign that broad-based ownership plans are gaining traction there.

According to Marc Mathieu of the European Federation of Employed Shareholders, in the 2,500 largest European companies there are now 8.2 million employee owners holding 260 billion Euros ($406 billion) in assets.

The ESOP Association of Canada has launched its new website at esopcanada.ca.

Canada's legislative framework for employee ownership is vastly different from the United States.

According to some reports, employee ownership is sweeping China; according to others, it is still just an occasional experiment.

It might seem that convenience store chains are not the most likely business to find a high concentration of ESOPs. With their high turnover and dispersed locations, ESOPs might seem a challenge.