From Colleagues to Owners is an Employee Ownership Association paper on how and why companies make the transition to employee ownership. Based on ten case studies, the report explains what motivated a highly diverse mix of businesses to consider employee ownership as a succession or start up route. Sponsored by co-owned Child Base, whose chief executive writes the reports foreword, From Colleagues to Owners received a Parliamentary launch sponsored by co-ownership advisers the Baxi Partnership.

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INTERVIEW OF THE WEEK: John Alexander, managing director of the Baxi Partnership TrustBy Steven Vass STRICTLY FOR business anoraks, here's a pub quiz question: Which Scottish private investment fund was created by an Act of Parliament? The answer, you probably didn't know, is the Baxi...

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EOA has published new guidance on optimising a companys co-ownership structure. Structuring employee ownership a guide to trusts, shares and tax help for co-ownership gives clear practical tips on using key schemes such as the Share Incentive Plan, SAYE, Company Share Option Plan, and Enterprise Management Incentive.

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NEW BRUNSWICK, N.J. The Foundation for Enterprise Development (FED) has committed $2 million the largest gift in the history of Rutgers Universitys School of Management and Labor Relations (SMLR) to establish the J. Robert Beyster Professorship of Employee Ownership. The Beyster Professorship is SMLRs first endowed professorship and, as far as can be determined, it is the first named chair in employee ownership established anywhere, according to Dean David Finegold.

Making employee ownership work is a new guide from the Employee Ownership Association and co-ownership advisers the Baxi Partnership, based on a survey of 25 EOA member companies including John Lewis, Unipart, Arup and Mott MacDonald.

Employee ownership can improve the quality and effectiveness of public services, even at a time of tight budgets, according to new research by management expert and former Financial Times journalist Charles Leadbeater. His Employee Ownership Association paper, Innovation Included, was launched at a Parliamentary reception addressed by Conservative Party policy review chief Oliver Letwin MP.