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1998 saw the continued rapid growth of broad-based employee ownership plans, particularly through the continuing expansion of the trend for companies to give stock options to most or all employees. The NCEO estimates that at least 18 million employees in the U.S.

Open-book management transforms organizations and gives them a major advantage over others who keep employees in the dark. The NCEO is an annual cosponsor of the National Gathering of Games Conference, and NCEO Executive Director Corey Rosen will be one of the speakers.

Early signs are that our 2011 annual conference in Denver on April 13-15 will be one of the biggest we have had but, more important, I think it will also be one of the best.

At a ceremony during the annual employee ownership conference in Denver, three companies received the Innovations in Employee Ownership Award: an engineering and architecture firm, a company that makes after-market automotive products, and a third-party insurance claims administrator.

Uncertainty about the state of the tax code in 2013 is creating some difficult decisions for companies and individuals with stock plans.

The NCEO staff and board thank the 1,420 people who joined us in Denver last week for the annual Employee Ownership Conference. Attendance set another record, with an 18% increase over last year's record. Mary Tilley of W.L.

The Vermont Employee Ownership Center will host its annual conference on June 2 in Colchester, VT, featuring a keynote by Steve Voigt, former CEO of King Arthur Flour Company, and 18 focused workshops designed to both inspire and inform.

Canada's ESOP Association will hold its annual conference June 7-9 in Kelowna, British Columbia.

The NCEO's ESOP Executive Compensation Survey is the only source that exists for high-quality, reliable data that is specific to ESOPs. The NCEO asks that all ESOP companies contribute to this unique resource by completing our questionnaire, which should take no longer than 20 minutes.

The Center for Organizational Dynamics at the University of Pennsylvania will host a program for CEOs of ESOP companies, covering topics such as the challenges and opportunities unique to leading an ESOP company, practical ideas to promote employee engagement, implications of recent research, and