Blue and Company INCEO’s Newest Corporate Sponsor

The Indiana Center for Employee Ownership would like to welcome Blue and Company as our newest corporate sponsor!  Blue and Company join Katz, Sapper & Miller, and Krieg DeVault in financially supporting the mission of INCEO to provide education and advocacy on employee ownership within Indiana. About Blue and Co. Blue & Co., LLC is…


Creating Wealth through Employee Ownership: The Transition Process

Two sessions provided Session 1 on Tuesday, October 27 , 2020 Session 2 on Thursday, October 29, 2020 Virtual Hosted by the Indiana Cooperative Development Center and the Indiana Center for Employee Ownership Over 41,000 businesses in Indiana are owned by people over 55. As these Hoosiers prepare for retirement, how will they plan for transitioning their…


Indianapolis – 2020 EOM Proclamation

INCEO has received Indianapolis Mayor Joe Hogsett’s proclamation for 2020 recognizing Employee Ownership, and October as Employee Ownership Month!  A PDF copy of the proclamation is available for download to use in your ESOPs EOM celebration activities via the following Link.  An image of the proclamation is below.


Governor Holcomb – EOM Proclamation

INCEO has received Indiana Governor Holcomb’s proclamation for 2020 recognizing Employee Ownership, and October as Employee Ownership Month!  A PDF copy of the proclamation is available for download to use in your ESOPs EOM celebration activities via the following Link.  An image of the proclamation is below.


Carmel – EOM Proclamation

INCEO has received the first Mayoral proclamation for 2020 Employee Ownership Month!  Many thanks to Chris Fredericks CEO of TVF Inc, for working with the Carmel Mayor’s office to get this proclamation out.  A PDF copy of the proclamation is available here. Below is an image of the Proclamation.  


2020 Employee Ownership Proclamations!

INCEO has contacted the Governor’s office and requested a proclamation be issued in support of Employee Ownership Month.  Governor Holcomb issued a similar proclamation’s in 2018 and 2019, and we assume he will be supportive in 2020. We have also reached out to the Indianapolis Mayor’s office for a city proclamation in support of employee…


Employee Ownership in Scotland

Why is Scotland leading the way in employee ownership? – by Carole Leslie A study released in June 2020 by the White Rose Centre for Employee Ownership, a collaboration between the Universities of Leeds and New South Wales, found that Scotland was second only to London in the growth of employee ownership.  When you consider…


INCEO & ICDC Webinar on Employee Ownership

Please register for this webinar using the following Links: Tuesday, July 21 Thursday, July 23 Wednesday, July 29


Sharing the Wealth

How do ESOPs share the wealth? The simple answer is through the annual allocation of ESOP shares and the capital appreciation of the ESOP shares.  For example: Annual allocation of ESOP shares: ESOPs are based on broad-based ownership.  Every eligible employee in the ESOP shares in the ownership of the company.  It doesn’t matter if…


ESOPs & Economic Well-Being

What is the impact of employee ownership on the individual worker, or worker groups?  Does employee ownership (through Employee Stock Ownership Plans or Cooperatives) have an impact?  Recent research on the impact of employee ownership and individual workers performed by the National Center for Employee Ownership identified that among the sampled workers workers who are…