Category: Employee Ownership Trends
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Making Employee Ownership the Norm
40 Million Owners has joined the Expanding ESOPs coalition to promote employee ownership as a standard practice in the U.S. The coalition, comprising over 80 organizations, aims to enhance policies and outreach for employee stock ownership. Their efforts focus on creating strategic acquisition frameworks that strengthen the ownership culture and expand employee benefits widely.
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Offense is the Best Defense: Why ESOPs Need an M&A Playbook Now
Employee-owned companies can capitalize on a dynamic small business M&A market and use acquisitions to compete, grow, and fulfill their fiduciary duty. Small businesses that employ tens of millions of American workers will sell to new owners this decade, creating both a risk and an unprecedented opportunity to transition these businesses to long-term, sustainable ownership…
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ESOP CEOs Drive Value and Reduce Risk through Acquisitions
Employee ownership is good business, and employee-owned companies make for successful acquirers. In a crowded market for lower-middle market acquisitions, ESOPs stand apart. Few market participants can match an ESOP’s attractiveness as a well-capitalized buyer that preserves the sellers’ legacy, provides their employees future wealth-building opportunities, and potentially allows the sellers to defer a portion…
40 MILLION OWNERS 