Monday, January 26, 2009

Employee-Owned Companies Abound on Fortune Magazine’s Top 100 List for 2009

The ESOP Association sent out the following press release this morning and we wanted to share it on the blog as well. The recently released list of top 100 companies by Fortune magazine shows that employee owned companies in the U.S. are becoming more prominent. Approximately 14% of the companies on the 2009 list are employee owned.  According to Fortune, a company has to be at least seven years old and have more than 1,000 U.S. employees to be eligible. Fortune conducts an...

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Wednesday, January 21, 2009

Employee Ownership Questions to Candidates for European Union Parliament

The European Federation of Employee Share Ownership (EFES) stated in a recent email to its members that it is asking candidates for the European Union (EU) Parliament to develop an EU employee ownership policy. [The Employee Ownership Foundation, affiliated with The ESOP Association, is a full member of EFES because the 21st Century economy is a global economy.] Such a policy would be in sync with information from several EU Parliamentary reports written by policy committees of the EU...

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Wednesday, January 14, 2009

Positive News to Share

We thought it would nice share a few positive ESOP articles with you.  The website, Axiom News - http://www.axiomnews.ca/ - has several ESOP centered articles featured on the homepage of their website which also includes articles on ComSonics, Inc. in Harrisonburg, VA, King Arthur Flour Company in Norwich, VT, and Jackson’s Hardware in San Rafael, CA.   With so much negative news these days about the economy, we thought it would be a good time to share news of this sort and to...

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Tuesday, January 06, 2009

New 111th Congress: Uncertainty for ESOPs.

Prescription for Action—the Tried and True   The 111th Congress, First Session, of the United States of America, begins today, January 6th. [Despite common understanding, the word “congress” applies to both the Senate and House of Representatives, even though the public calls their Representative in the House a Congressman, Congresswoman, or even Congressperson, and their Senator, “Senator”.]   Under our Constitution, each Congress lasts two years,...

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