Operations: 22 Price Cutter stores, six Ramey and three Smitty's, plus six convenience stores. ESOP status: 100% employee-owned since Jan. 1 following a leveraged buyout of the company. Erick Taylor, ...

The use of employee stock ownership plans as a tool to transition ownership has a number of attractive benefits that may well be overlooked by accounting firms. In the recent past, accounting firms ...

Employee Stock Option Plans, or ESOPs, are widely used by startups to attract and retain top talent, especially when companies are unable to offer high salaries in their early years. For many ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Mary Josephs is an expert in business ownership transitions. Very simply, my enduring passion for employee ownership to which I’ve ...