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New York State Releases Report Highlighting Employee Ownership

The Office of the New York State Comptroller recently released a report “Employee Ownership of Businesses in New York State” outlining the most common forms of employee ownership, the number of such businesses in New York State from the NCEO comprehensive database, and how “employee ownership can positively impact employee compensation and retirement assets making it an effective tool to create lasting wealth and improving employee satisfaction.” 



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New NCEO Research Shows the Benefits of Being an ESOP in the Food Industry

The NCEO just completed a large grant-funded project examining whether and how employee ownership affected companies and employees in the U.S. food system during the COVID-19 pandemic. This project involved commissioning a national polling firm to collect original survey data from executives at ESOP and non-ESOP-owned companies. It speaks to important issues of workforce retention, business competitiveness, and the retirement security crisis. Namely:


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The 2022 National ESOP Database Is Now Available

The 2022 ESOP Database, the NCEO's comprehensive data source on all ESOPs in the US, is now available. The database includes plan year 2020 Form 5500 filings (or the most recent available filing before 2020) and includes company name and address, industry, number of plan participants, plan assets, age of the ESOP, publicly traded indicator, and many more fields. (Download a sample of the data).