Employee ownership offers potential alternative to media companies seeking to retain journalistic integrity .
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John McNamara Responds: New Belgium Brewery Goes Flat
I’ve been wondering when the craft beer market would begin consolidating. A few years ago, shockwaves went through the Cascadia craft beer community when 10 Barrels sold to Anheuser-Busch Inv Bev and worse, Full Sail sold to an investment company. Around the same time, another ESOP brewery in Oregon sold as well; it was notable […]
Continue ReadingHazel Corcoran: What If We Had an Antidote to Worker Co-ops Selling Out?
Indivisble reserves are one way for worker cooperatives to prevent demutualization.
Continue ReadingBrightly Cleaning: Lessons from the First U.S. Worker Cooperative Franchise
The worker cooperative franchise provides a model to go to scale.
Continue ReadingLast call: A forum on the end of employee ownership at New Belgium
What does it say about the viability of market-based strategies that even the most integral moral commitment to worker equity ultimately could not stand up to economic and market pressures?
Continue ReadingCan a Private Equity Fund Model Help Scale Employee Ownership?
Proposed model could provide a vehicle for investors to finance worker-centric employee ownership conversions.
Continue ReadingRole of Capital in Taking Employee Ownership to Scale
At the Beyster Symposium, Fifty by Fifty panel explored a new financing model to scale employee ownership.
Continue ReadingCan Worker Cooperatives Transform the Commercial Laundry Business?
Evergreen Cooperatives plans expansion of its laundry co-op model to New Haven and other cities.
Continue ReadingTwo Publishers Illustrate Why Ownership Matters
Financial ownership vs. inclusive multistakeholder ownership leads to different outcomes for Jossey-Bass and Berrett-Koehler
Continue ReadingA National Strategy to Grow Home Care Cooperatives?
Participants at the USDA Interagency Working Group meeting see role for government leadership.
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