Mr. Gillming’s Testimony on ESOPs

A video extract of Mr. Gillming’s testimony to the House Committee on Small Business hearing on the Challenges and Benefits of Employee-Owned Small Businesses, on Feb 12, 2020.  


Pennsylvania HB 285

Introduced Jan 2019, Pennsylvania HB 285 seeks to apply provisions of the federal tax code at the state level allowing business owners who sell their stock to an ESOP to defer and potentially eliminate the capital gains resulting from the sale. As of Dec 18, 2019 this bill is in the Pennsylvania Senate Finance Committee.


NewAge Industries

Congratulations to NewAge Industries the 2019 Winner of NCEO’s annual Employee Ownership Film Contest! NewAge Industries is an employee-owned company that is a great place to work and also gives back to the community; this video shows you how.


Season’s Greetings

Thank you for the opportunity to serve the citizens of Indiana.  As you may know, INCEO’s mission is to promote better understanding of the values of employee ownership among business leaders, public officials, employees, members of the media, students, academics/academic institutions, consumers, and other persons and organizations in Indiana. This year we participated with the…


Quiz: Is an Employee Stock Ownership Plan Right for my Business?

In a recent article by Anita Campbell, Nov 15 2019 she posted a simple 10 question quiz to ask Is an Employee Stock Ownership Plan Right for My Business?  Click here to take the quiz. Note a new webpage will open and the quiz is not on the INCEO site. Rick


ESOPs and Ice Cream

If an ESOP is often described as:                 But an ESOP with an Employee Ownership culture is often described as:                 Which one would you want?


ESOP Workshop

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…


Why I Sold my Company to my Employees

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…


Rutgers Conference

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…


EOM Proclamation City of Carmel

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…