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ECONOMIC SURVEY OF EMPLOYEE OWNERSHIP IN EUROPEAN COUNTRIES
IN 2008

The new Annual Survey for year 2008 shows that employee ownership declined a bit on the threshold of the financial crisis. Assets held by employee owners fell to 240.2 billion Euro in 2008, compared to 283.3 billion in 2007 (-15.2%). However, this was still much more than the 206.2 billion in 2006. As a percentage, employees' share stabilized on 2.63% in the capital ownership structure. Considering recent trends, employee ownership is going to double within the next 5-10 years, from 9.1 million employee owners now to 16 million, from 28.2% of all employees in large European companies now to 40-50%, and capitalisation held by employees going to raise from 2.63% now to 4-5%. This is the main conclusion of the economic survey of employee ownership in the European countries in year 2008. The survey brings an exhaustive information about 2.533 European groups, gathering 259.000 companies and 32.4 million employees.

  Country files
Each European country can easily be compared to others regarding employee ownership in 2008, thanks to a set of 10 graphs, using fully comparable information. Download country files here: Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Switzerland, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Denmark, Germany, Estonia, Spain, Finland, France, Greece, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Lituania, Latvia, Luxemburg, Malta, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia, Sweden, United Kingdom

  Full version of Economic Survey 2008
The full Annual Economic Survey was published on May 18, 2009 during the Eighth European Meeting of Employee Ownership. It is available both in electronic or paper version.  Download subscription form   
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  Eighth European Meeting of Employee Ownership - Brussels, 18 May 2009
The Eighth European Meeting of Employee Ownership was held in the prestigious Egmont Palace in Brussels. All information and presentations including PPT presentation of the Survey 2008

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For information and contact
EFES - EUROPEAN FEDERATION OF EMPLOYEE SHARE OWNERSHIP
FEAS - FEDERATION EUROPEENNE DE L'ACTIONNARIAT SALARIE
Avenue Voltaire 135, B-1030 Brussels
Tel/fax: +32 (0)2 242 64 30
E-mail: efes@efesonline.org
Web site: www.efesonline.org
EFES' objective is to act as the umbrella organization of employee owners, companies and all persons, trade unions, experts, researchers, institutions looking to promote employee ownership and participation in Europe.