Expanding ESOPs

We look at what's motivating a new generation to start careers in the ESOP world and more with the Beyster Institute's Kim Blaugher in our latest Ask an ESOP Expert Q&A.

"The ESOP gives us hope. It means that when I finally hang up my boots, I’ll be taken care of — and, if I play my cards right, the rest of my family will be OK, too. It’s an unbelievable feeling." -- Luke Messer, estimator, Garney Construction in The Kansas City Star

"I feel secure thinking about my future, thanks to the #ESOP. I hope for the day when all Americans can feel that way." --Web Industries Senior Process Tech Jules Pequignot in Fort Wayne Business Journal.

Andrew Bary writes in Barron's on ESOP star Publix Super Markets, the largest employee-owned company in the country. "Being employee-owned is a huge advantage for Publix,” says David Livingston, a retailing consultant. “People would rather work for Publix. It gets better quality employees."

We talk with Mary Sullivan Josephs, founder and CEO of Verit Advisors,?about how a college French major wound up completing 500 ESOP transactions...and counting in our latest Ask an ESOP Expert interview.?

"Employee stock ownership programs make capitalism work for everybody," writes Brady Fox, an engineer at PC Construction Company in Vermont. "In this time of increasing divisiveness, they are wildly popular across party lines. Imagine finding something that both Bernie Sanders and Ronald Reagan would have agreed on." #ESOP #EmployeeOwnership

What an inspiring story on how employee ownership changes lives. We need many more KEITH DIXONs. Expanding ESOPs is committed to building an economy where every worker can be an owner like Keith.?#ESOPS

We talk about how ESOPs can help address our nation's retirement crisis and more with CHRIS BUCH of Vedder Price in our latest Ask an ESOP Expert interview.

"I am looking forward to retiring in July, at 65, knowing that I won’t have to worry." Karen Jones, director of commercial operations at 100% employee owned Sentry Equipment, writes in the Oconomowoc Enterprise on the power of the ESOP.

We hear about ITA Group, Inc.'s stock price reveal extravaganzas, their sky-high retention rates and what it says on their CFO's door in our latest Ask an ESOP Expert Q&A.