The Indiana Center for Employee Ownership and the Central Indiana Small Business Development Center will be presenting a no-cost workshop which focuses on answering: What is an ESOP? and Can your company do it? Rick Van Doel, Director of the Indiana Center for Employee Ownership (www.inceo.org), will provide real-world examples and review the following topics: the…
As reported by David Wagner, Oct 31, 2019 in the article California Business Owners Spread The Wealth By Selling Their Companies To Their Workers. Often business owners are working so hard on and in their businesses that they do not stop to consider exit strategies. In the 2016 ASE Data 31.5% of Indiana businesses have…
Dr. Van Doel, will be attending and moderating a CEO panel discussion at the 3rd Annual Conference on Employee Stock Ownership Plans & Equity Compensation October 29, at Rutgers University. ESOP Companies participating in the panel include: Visual Graphic Systems, Paul Theodore, President and CEO, Mass. Bay Brewing Co, Aaron Moberger, Cellar Manager, and Performance…
City of Carmel Mayor Proclamation: James Brainard, Mayor of Carmel, Indiana has issued a Mayoral Proclamation recognizing October as Employee Ownership Month! Click here for a copy of the proclamation. Please free free to download this Proclamation for use during your ESOPs Employee Ownership Month celebrations! An image of the proclamation is available below. Have…
Indianapolis Mayor Joe Hogsett has issued a proclamation designating October 2019 as Employee Ownership Month! A PDF copy of the proclamation is available here. Feel free to download this proclamation for use during your Employee Ownership Month Celebrations. A image copy is provided below: Have a great EOM! Rick
INCEO is very pleased to share that Governor Eric J. Holcomb has issued a Governor’s Proclamation designating October 2019 as Employee Ownership Month. Thank you Governor Holcomb for your continued support of Employee Ownership in Indiana! An image of the proclamation is provided below and a PDF copy is available for download here. Please use…
Thomas Henry, Mayor of the City of Fort Wayne, Indiana has issued a Mayoral Proclamation recognizing October as Employee Ownership Month! This is the FIRST of what I hope will be several Indiana proclamations in support of Employee Ownership and EO Month. INCEO would like to thank and recognize Mayor Henry for supporting Employee Ownership…
INCEO recently joined a national collaborative of organizations working to convert businesses to worker- and employee-ownership by engaging with companies, places, and governments. This collaboration of like minded organizations named “Workers to Owners” is the leading body of knowledge and practice in the country focusing on small business conversions. Members share tools, practices, and innovations, aggregate…
Over 90 organizations, across 26 states and the District of Columbia joined the National Cooperative Business Association – CLUSA International in support and request a committee hearing on the Small Business Administration’s (SBA) recent report to Congress, “Cooperative Lending – Personal Guarantee Requirement” that was required through the bipartisan supported and passage of the Main…