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Last Call: A forum on the end of employee ownership at New Belgium

Melissa Hoover: Employee Ownership Often Helps to Shape and Build Hot New Markets—Then What?

dev50by50 · Dec 10, 2019 ·

Can lessons from New Belgium help us think differently about employee ownership in high-growth sectors?

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Erbin Crowell and Sonja Novkovic: ESOPs or Co-ops? Depends on the Long-Term Goal

dev50by50 · Dec 10, 2019 ·

While both co-ops and ESOPs are often included under the umbrella of “employee ownership,” this term has been largely appropriated by conventional economic thought that places the right to dispose of property at the center of ownership rights.

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Jennifer Briggs: New Belgium Was More than an ESOP

dev50by50 · Dec 10, 2019 ·

An ESOP in and of itself doesn’t create a company like New Belgium—it takes culture, too.

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Jared Kaplan: The Sustainable Legacy of New Belgium Brewing

dev50by50 · Dec 10, 2019 ·

Sustainability isn’t the same as immortality, and it certainly doesn’t mean stagnation.

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Jason Wiener: Let’s Not Let the Ideal Be the Enemy of the Pretty-Darn-Great

dev50by50 · Dec 10, 2019 ·

We ought to celebrate instances of employee self-determination, including the right of employees to cash out and move on.

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Bret Keisling: New Belgium—A great story to tell

dev50by50 · Dec 10, 2019 ·

We should aspire for ESOP permanence, but not regard it as a failure when a great ESOP successfully transitions to a different structure.

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Matt Cropp: What is Expected of Employee Ownership?

dev50by50 · Dec 10, 2019 ·

Employee ownership was core to New Belgium’s identity, and their story offered an alternative model to many concerned by the corporate consolidation of the craft beer sector over the past few years.

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Michael Keeling: ESOP Terminations—Red Flag?

dev50by50 · Dec 10, 2019 ·

As employee ownership advocates, we need to address why so many ESOP companies walk away from broad-based ownership.

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Daniel Fireside: How Beeswax and Rope Can Save Your Company’s Soul

dev50by50 · Dec 10, 2019 ·

It turns out that there are plenty of investors and lenders happy to take a supporting role knowing that we’ve prevented ourselves from selling our company, and our mission, to the highest bidder.

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Dave Hammer: Employee Ownership Must Become a Movement for Social Change

dev50by50 · Dec 10, 2019 ·

Employee ownership must become more than a community of practice, we must marshal our resources and become a movement for positive social change.

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