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Employee Ownership and International Diplomacy: Meeting with a Representative of a Thai Worker Cooperative
Author: Colligan, James
Product Type: Mini-Cases
Source: The Beyster Institute
Publication Year: 2011
Jittra Cotshadet coordinates the Try Arm Worker Collective in Thailand which manufactures ladies' lower undergarments. She described the trials her collective faces in the current Thai political climate...
Client Profile: CMC Rescue, Inc.
Author: Zollars, Ron
Product Type: Mini-Cases
Source: The Beyster Institute
Publication Year: 2011
CMC Rescue became 92 percent employee owned in 2011. Jim came to the realization that employee ownership could realistically be the only way to assure continuation of CMC with its current operations and employees...
Client Profile: n-Link Corporation
Author: Zollars, Ron
Product Type: Mini-Cases
Source: The Beyster Institute
Publication Year: 2011
n-Link Founder Sandra Green explains that in the early days she wasn’t exactly certain what employee ownership entailed but knew intrinsically that it was a good thing for the company and the employees.
Client Profile: Flexpak Corporation
Author: Zollars, Ron
Product Type: Mini-Cases
Source: The Beyster Institute
Publication Year: 2011
Flexpak Corporation, has been a leader in providing thermoforming and packaging services to its clients for many years. The employee-owned company, founded in 1974 by Donald Bond is headquartered a few minutes from downtown Phoenix, Ariz.
Client Profile: Los Angeles Engineering
Author: Zollars, Ron
Product Type: Mini-Cases
Source: The Beyster Institute
Publication Year: 2011
Learn more about a unique engineering company that has been providing critical infrastructure services throughout southern California since 1986...
Client Profile: Coast Citrus Distributors
Author: Zollars, Ron
Product Type: Mini-Cases
Source: The Beyster Institute
Publication Year: 2010
At Coast Citrus, the employees are eligible to participate in the ESOP after completing 500 hours and/or three months of service. Currently the company is 70 percent employee owned.
Compton Fundraising Consultants
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Product Type: Mini-Cases
Source: Employee Ownership Association
Publication Year: 2009
Compton Fundraising Consultants ("Compton") began life as a family fundraising firm in Australia in 1962 and is now a multi-national group of companies turning over £3 million a year and employing 44 people.
Tullis Russell
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Product Type: Mini-Cases
Source: Employee Ownership Association
Publication Year: 2009
Paper manufacturer and distributor Tullis Russell became majority employee owned in 1994 in a pioneering arrangement that involved the transfer of ownership to staff and unlocked capital for the family that had owned most of the business since 1809.
Sunderland Home Care Associates (SHCA)
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Product Type: Mini-Cases
Source: Employee Ownership Association
Publication Year: 2009
The business model developed by Sunderland Home Care Associates (SHCA) is based on “involving people, valuing people.”
Scott Bader
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Product Type: Mini-Cases
Source: Employee Ownership Association
Publication Year: 2009
Ownership of chemical company Scott Bader is unusual. Since 1963 it has been wholly owned by a charitable trust, the Scott Bader Commonwealth.
School Trends
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Product Type: Mini-Cases
Source: Employee Ownership Association
Publication Year: 2009
Founder and Chair of School Trends, Peter Beeby, has always been committed to coownership principles and started to actively pursue employee share ownership with the death of his co-founder and friend in 1994.
Savant
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Product Type: Mini-Cases
Source: Employee Ownership Association
Publication Year: 2009
In July 2001, Savant’s employees took over ownership of the company from the two retiring co-founders, who had run the company as a family business since 1982.
Loch Fyne Oysters
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Product Type: Mini-Cases
Source: Employee Ownership Association
Publication Year: 2009
Andy Lane read an article about the Baxi Partnership, which was starting to fund employee buy-outs, and saw how this route could provide a way of paying Noble’s estate his share of the business without selling the company.
John Lewis Partnership
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Product Type: Mini-Cases
Source: Employee Ownership Association
Publication Year: 2009
The John Lewis Partnership (JLP) is one of the UK’s most profitable retailers – sales grew by 6.3% and pre-tax profit by 18.7% in the year to 27 January 2008. Its success owes much to the co-ownership principles of its founder, John Spedan Lewis, who handed over control and ownership in two trust settlements in the last century.
Gripple
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Product Type: Mini-Cases
Source: Employee Ownership Association
Publication Year: 2009
The successful launch in 1988 of a wire joining and tension device called a Gripple not only gave the company producing it its name but also provided the impetus for employee ownership.
Eaga
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Product Type: Mini-Cases
Source: Employee Ownership Association
Publication Year: 2009
eaga is a global provider of residential improvement projects, particularly in the field of energy efficiency.
Staples, Inc.
Author: The National Center for Employee Ownership
Product Type: Mini-Cases
Source: The National Center for Employee Ownership
Publication Year: 2008
Staples’ management believes strongly that sharing equity with employees is an integral part of the company’s compensation program because it allows them to attract, retain, and reward employees who contribute to longterm success.
Padilla Speer Beardsley
Author: The National Center for Employee Ownership
Product Type: Mini-Cases
Source: The National Center for Employee Ownership
Publication Year: 2008
Padilla Speer Beardsley created an ESOP in 1992 and is currently a 100% ESOP-owned S corporation.
Barclay Water Management
Author: The National Center for Employee Ownership
Product Type: Mini-Cases
Source: The National Center for Employee Ownership
Publication Year: 2008
In 2007, five of the fifteen winners of the Top Small Workplaces Award given out by the Wall Street Journal and Winning Workplaces were employee-owned, and a number of the others planned to move in that direction.
Carl Warren & Company
Author: The National Center for Employee Ownership
Product Type: Mini-Cases
Source: The National Center for Employee Ownership
Publication Year: 2008
Employees of this award-winning ESOP company now speak at conferences about their extensive communications program, but just four years ago remote employees felt disconnected and the company had an ownership culture that could be described as “lip service only.”
Van Meter Industrial
Author: The National Center for Employee Ownership
Product Type: Mini-Cases
Source: The National Center for Employee Ownership
Publication Year: 2008
Do you want your ESOP committee to hit the ground running?
The Signature Group
Author: The National Center for Employee Ownership
Product Type: Mini-Cases
Source: The National Center for Employee Ownership
Publication Year: 2008
The Signature Group, Inc. (TSG) is an employee-owned network systems firm established in 1997.
Cedarwood School
Author: The National Center for Employee Ownership
Product Type: Mini-Cases
Source: The National Center for Employee Ownership
Publication Year: 2008
The Cedarwood School is currently working to educate employees, build an ownership culture, and eventually phase out the founder.
Ryla Teleservices
Author: The National Center for Employee Ownership
Product Type: Mini-Cases
Source: The National Center for Employee Ownership
Publication Year: 2008
Ryla Teleservices is a young, rapidly growing minority-owned company in the teleservices industry.
North Highland Company
Author: The National Center for Employee Ownership
Product Type: Mini-Cases
Source: The National Center for Employee Ownership
Publication Year: 2008
The three bedrock principles of North Highland are: (a) the company will only work with clients in cities where it has offices; (b) the company hires only experienced consultants; and (c) the company guarantees its work.
Springbok Services, Inc.
Author: The National Center for Employee Ownership
Product Type: Mini-Cases
Source: The National Center for Employee Ownership
Publication Year: 2008
Leadership at Englewood, Colo.-based Springbok Services believes that a rapidly evolving marketplace requires companies to have a fluid organizational structure that relies on substantial autonomy for employee teams.
Netflix
Author: The National Center for Employee Ownership
Product Type: Mini-Cases
Source: The National Center for Employee Ownership
Publication Year: 2007
Netflix is revolutionizing the way companies manage their employees.
Plan Terminations
Author: The National Center for Employee Ownership
Product Type: Mini-Cases
Source: The National Center for Employee Ownership
Publication Year: 2007
The NCEO recently completed research on the dynamics of ESOP termination, funded by the Employee Ownership Foundation.
Organic Valley's Plowing Ahead
Author: Weatherhead School of Management
Product Type: Mini-Cases
Source: Case Western Reserve University
Publication Year: 2007
Organic Valley is an organic, family farmer-owned cooperative on a mission.
Fifth Third Bank
Author: The National Center for Employee Ownership
Product Type: Mini-Cases
Source: The National Center for Employee Ownership
Publication Year: 2007
Fifth Third Bank offers ownership to every one of its employees—from tellers to treasury officers, parking lot security guards to senior vice presidents.
Gardeners’ Guild
Author: The National Center for Employee Ownership
Product Type: Mini-Cases
Source: The National Center for Employee Ownership
Publication Year: 2007
Gardeners’ Guild has learned to cultivate every learning opportunity with carefully designed small-group meetings that make sure employees understand not only what the new stock value is, but why it changed.
Dancing Deer Baking Company
Author: The National Center for Employee Ownership
Product Type: Mini-Cases
Source: The National Center for Employee Ownership
Publication Year: 2007
Employees at Dancing Deer Baking Co. in inner-city Boston are required to spend 15% of their time contributing positively to the culture of the working environment.
New Belgium Brewing
Author: The National Center for Employee Ownership
Product Type: Mini-Cases
Source: The National Center for Employee Ownership
Publication Year: 2007
Unless you were in San Diego in April this year, you have probably never seen a single music video that covers energy cogeneration, bicycles, and employee ownership.
Travelers Group Combines Broad Stock Option and 401(k) Plan
Author: The National Center for Employee Ownership
Product Type: Mini-Cases
Source: The National Center for Employee Ownership
Publication Year: 2007
In the last few years, there has been an extraordinary growth in the number of large public companies providing stock options to most or all employees.
ATA Engineering
Author: The National Center for Employee Ownership
Product Type: Mini-Cases
Source: The National Center for Employee Ownership
Publication Year: 2007
The Structural Dynamics Research Corporation wanted employees to think like owners. The easiest way to do that was to give them an equity stake.
Cal-Tex Protective Coatings, Inc.
Author: The National Center for Employee Ownership
Product Type: Mini-Cases
Source: The National Center for Employee Ownership
Publication Year: 2007
Cal-Tex Protective Coatings, Inc. wants to be a company of CEOs—Certified Employee Owners—who think and act like executives.
Joystar, Inc.
Author: The National Center for Employee Ownership
Product Type: Mini-Cases
Source: The National Center for Employee Ownership
Publication Year: 2007
A small company with a wide network of travel professionals, Joystar, Inc., is a publicly-traded host agency for more than 5,000 home-based travel agents, and it offers stock options to each and every one of them.
CALIBRE
Author: The National Center for Employee Ownership
Product Type: Mini-Cases
Source: The National Center for Employee Ownership
Publication Year: 2007
In presenting a 2006 Innovations in Employee Ownership Award to CALIBRE, judges cited the company’s “impressive systems-level approach” to employee ownership, especially its 16 coordinated ESOP communications vehicles and its “structured organizational feedback loop.”
Zions Bancorp
Author: The National Center for Employee Ownership
Product Type: Mini-Cases
Source: The National Center for Employee Ownership
Publication Year: 2007
Zions First National Bank is taking advantage of a provision in the new stock options accounting standard by selling securities that will pay out as the employee stock options they track are exercised.
Stylmark
Author: The National Center for Employee Ownership
Product Type: Mini-Cases
Source: The National Center for Employee Ownership
Publication Year: 2007
Stylmarkmany—a 100% ESOP company—utilizes many innovative, high-involvement practices.
Marin Mountain Bikes, Inc.
Author: The National Center for Employee Ownership
Product Type: Mini-Cases
Source: The National Center for Employee Ownership
Publication Year: 2006
Marin Mountain Bikes, Inc. decided to put a quarter of the company’s stock into the hands of employees in the form of stock options.
ITAGroup
Author: The National Center for Employee Ownership
Product Type: Mini-Cases
Source: The National Center for Employee Ownership
Publication Year: 2006
ITAGroup is one of the 2006 Principal 10 Best Companies for Employee Financial Security, a prestigious award sponsored by The Principal Financial Group.
Fuel Cell Energy
Author: The National Center for Employee Ownership
Product Type: Mini-Cases
Source: The National Center for Employee Ownership
Publication Year: 2006
In the case of Fuel Cell Energy, a foray into fuel cell technology called for a company that mixed characteristics from a host of different sectors: the scientific drive of a research organization, the consultant-client relationship prevalent within engineering firms, and the upstart mentality of a technology company.
You Get What You Knead
Author: The National Center for Employee Ownership
Product Type: Mini-Cases
Source: The National Center for Employee Ownership
Publication Year: 2006
Look at King Arthur Flour Company and you’ll see a model ESOP company with an active ESOP communications committee, monthly town meetings, a 14-year history of open-book management, and a generous ESOP.
Analytical Graphics, Inc.
Author: The National Center for Employee Ownership
Product Type: Mini-Cases
Source: The National Center for Employee Ownership
Publication Year: 2006
It is critical to any business to keep staff engaged and turnover down, and even more so in competitive sectors facing tight labor markets for highly skilled workers.
QuikTrip
Author: The National Center for Employee Ownership
Product Type: Mini-Cases
Source: The National Center for Employee Ownership
Publication Year: 2006
Perhaps surprisingly, there are a lot of convenience store chains with ESOPs or other forms of broad-based employee ownership.
New Social Investing Option: In Equal Exchange
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Product Type: Mini-Cases
Source: SustainableBusiness.com
Publication Year: 2006
Fair trade and beverage pioneer, Equal Exchange, has teamed up with socially progressive bank, Wainwright Bank, to raise capital, protect its independence, and create a new financial product for investors.
AMB Property Corporation
Author: The National Center for Employee Ownership
Product Type: Mini-Cases
Source: The National Center for Employee Ownership
Publication Year: 2006
The historical timeline published on the website of AMB Property Corporation informs viewers that, in 2002, the company became “the first public company in several years to expense stock options.”
Glatfelter Insurance Group
Author: The National Center for Employee Ownership
Product Type: Mini-Cases
Source: The National Center for Employee Ownership
Publication Year: 2006
ESOP companies routinely show up on lists of the best companies for employees. In 2005, ESOP majority-owned Glatfelter Insurance Group showed up on two such lists.
M&T Bank
Author: The National Center for Employee Ownership
Product Type: Mini-Cases
Source: The National Center for Employee Ownership
Publication Year: 2006
Last year, on the same day Time-Warner announced it would stop giving options to all employees, the top executives at M&T Bank in Buffalo, NY, announced they would give up their options so that options could be given out to all employees.
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