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                              EFES 
                                PRESS REVIEW - JULY-AUGUST 2024
 
                    Our 
                                selection
 
  A 
                                selection of 48 remarkable articles in 9 countries 
                                in July-August 2024: Australia, Canada, Czechia, 
                                France, Poland, Slovenia, UK, USA, Vietnam. Australia: A dentist practice is the second 
                                case of an Employee Ownership Trust in Australia.
 Canada: Employee Ownership Trusts take 
                                shape: Federal government passed new rules and 
                                incentives for EOTs in June.
 Czechia: The new tax rules for employee 
                                share ownership in the Czech Republic.
 France: New employee share plans for Société 
                                Générale, for TotalEnergies. Business rescues 
                                through workers' cooperatives for Wehr, for Meusienne, 
                                for Duralex.
 Poland: Auchan is the flagship model of 
                                employee share ownership in Poland.
 Slovenia: Slovenian government gives the 
                                green light to the preparation of new legislation 
                                for employee ownership.
 UK: Valloop Exchange platform aims to help 
                                accelerate the transition of Small to Medium Sized 
                                Enterprise (SME) businesses from privately owned 
                                to employee owned through innovative use of AI. 
                                Thanks to the Employee Ownership Trust formula, 
                                one or two new SMEs are transferred to their employees 
                                every day. This summer, among others, the case 
                                of: Anderson Clark Motor Repairs, Brazen Public 
                                Relations, R&W Scott Bakery, Sevenoaks Sound 
                                & Vision, Spawforths Architectural, Gusto 
                                Construction Group, HeartVets Cardiology, Standguide 
                                Education & Training, Cardinal Global Logistics, 
                                Strategic Workforce Solutions Group, Network Design 
                                & Marketing, Engage Interactive, Graystons 
                                Medical, BI Catering Equipment, Conlon Construction, 
                                RA Information Systems, Total Recruitment Group, 
                                McKinlay Kidd Tour Operator.
 USA: The Menke Group celebrates 50 years 
                                of advising companies on designing and managing 
                                ESOPs. New report identifies funds focused on 
                                investing in employee-owned companies. New business 
                                transfers through ESOP plans.
 Vietnam: Liberalization of Vietnam’s Employee 
                                Stock Ownership Plan regulations.
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  Une 
                                sélection de 48 articles remarquables dans 9 pays 
                                en juillet-août 2024: Australie, 
                                Canada, Tchéquie, France, Pologne, Slovénie, 
                                Royaume-Uni, États-Unis.Australie: Un cabinet 
                                dentaire offre à l'Australie son deuxième cas 
                                de transmission d'entreprise à une fiducie d'actionnariat 
                                salarié. Canada: Les fiducies d'actionnariat salarié 
                                prennent forme: le gouvernement fédéral a adopté 
                                les nouvelles règles et incitations pour les fiducies 
                                d'actionnariat salarié en juin.
 Tchéquie: La nouvelle fiscalité de l'actionnariat 
                                salarié en Tchéquie.
 France: Nouveaux plans d'actionnariat salarié 
                                pour Société Générale, pour TotalEnergies. Sauvetages 
                                d'entreprises sous forme de coopératives de salariés 
                                pour Wehr, pour la Meusienne, pour Duralex.
 Pologne: Auchan est le modèle-phare de 
                                l'actionnariat salarié en Pologne.
 Slovénie: Le gouvernement donne son feu 
                                vert à la préparation d'une nouvelle législation 
                                pour l'actionnariat salarié.
 Royaume Uni: La plateforme Valloop Exchange 
                                vise à accélérer la transition des PME en entreprises 
                                détenues par leurs employés grâce à une utilisation 
                                innovante de l'IA. Grâce à la formule de la Fiducie 
                                d'Actionnariat Salarié (Employee Ownership 
                                Trust), chaque jour une ou deux nouvelles 
                                PME transférées aux salariés. Cet été entre autres 
                                les cas de: Anderson Clark Motor Repairs, Brazen 
                                Public Relations, R&W Scott Bakery, Sevenoaks 
                                Sound & Vision, Spawforths Architectural, 
                                Gusto Construction Group, HeartVets Cardiology, 
                                Standguide Education & Training, Cardinal 
                                Global Logistics, Strategic Workforce Solutions 
                                Group, Network Design & Marketing, Engage 
                                Interactive, Graystons Medical, BI Catering Equipment, 
                                Conlon Construction, RA Information Systems, Total 
                                Recruitment Group, McKinlay Kidd Tour Operator.
 USA: 
                                Le Groupe Menke célèbre ses 50 ans de conseil 
                                aux entreprises en matière de conception et de 
                                gestion de plans ESOP. Un nouveau rapport identifie 
                                les fonds axés sur l'investissement dans des entreprises 
                                détenues par leurs salariés. Nouveaux cas de transferts 
                                d'entreprises par le biais de plans ESOP.
 Vietnam: Libéralisation de la réglementation 
                                des plans d'actionnariat salarié au Vietnam.
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  Nuestar 
                                  seleccion propone 48 artículos destacados en 
                                  9 países en julio-agosto de 2024: Australia, 
                                  Canadá, Chequia, Francia, Polonia, Eslovenia, 
                                  Reino Unido, EE.UU., Vietnam. > BACK TO TOP
 
  Eine 
                                  Auswahl von 48 bemerkenswerten Artikeln in 9 
                                  Ländern im Juli-August 2024: Australien, Kanada, 
                                  Tschechien, Frankreich, Polen, Slowenien, Großbritannien, 
                                  USA, Vietnam. > BACK TO TOP
 
 
 
  48 articoli selezionati per 
                                  luglio-agosto 2024 in 9 Stati: 
                                  Australia, Canada, Repubblica Ceca, Francia, 
                                  Polonia, Slovenia, Regno Unito, USA, Vietnam. > BACK TO TOP
 
  V 
                                  cervenci až srpnu 2024 máme výběr 48 pozoruhodných 
                                  článků ve 9 zemích: 
                                  Austrálie, Kanada, Cesko, Francie, Polsko, Slovinsko, 
                                  Velká Británie, USA, Vietnam. > BACK TO TOP
 
  2024 július-augusztusban hónapban 48 figyelemre 
                                  méltó cikket találtunk 9 országból: Ausztrália, 
                                  Kanada, Csehország, Franciaország, Lengyelország, 
                                  Szlovénia, Egyesült Királyság, USA, Vietnam. > BACK TO TOP
 
  Mamy wybór 48 niezwyklych artykulów w 9 krajach 
                                  w 
                                  lipcu-sierpniu 2024: Australia, Kanada, Czechy, 
                                  Francja, Polska, Slowenia, Wielka Brytania, 
                                  USA, Wietnam. > BACK TO TOP
 
  Een selectie van 48 opmerkelijke artikelen in 
                                  9 landen in juli-augustus 2024: Australië, Canada, 
                                  Tsjechië, Frankrijk, Polen, Slovenië, VK, VS, 
                                  Vietnam. > BACK TO TOP
 
  Ett urval av 48 anmärkningsvärda artiklar i 9 
                                länder i juli-augusti 2024: Australien, Kanada, 
                                Tjeckien, Frankrike, Polen, Slovenien, Storbritannien, 
                                USA, Vietnam. > BACK TO TOP
 
   
  SELECTION
  
                              AU 
                                     1 - Exit 
                                strategy: How this company sold itself to its 
                                workersForbes Australia - 9 Aug 2024
 ... employee-owned 
                                trusts. But when the Meld owners told their lawyers 
                                and accountants they wanted to set up such a trust, 
                                they were told it couldn't ...
 AU      2 - Employee 
                                Ownership Trusts: an alternative business model
 Bite Magazine - 19 Aug 2024
 Dr O'Malley says because there 
                                are currently no specific laws for employee-owned 
                                businesses in Australia, there ended up being 
                                15 separate steps ...
 CA      3 - Employee 
                                ownership trusts take shape
 Investment Executive - 12 
                                July 2024
 They all get a cut because 
                                they're all owners. The company based in the small 
                                town of Altona, Man. is set up as an employee 
                                ownership trust, which, ...
 CA       4 - Employee 
                                ownership trusts taking shape in Canada
 Benefits Canada.com - 17 July 
                                2024
 They all get a cut because 
                                they're all owners. The company, based in the 
                                small town of Altona, Man., is set up as an employee 
                                ownership trust, which, ...
 CZ      5 - Zaměstnanecké 
                                akcie z pohledu daní. Komu se vyplatí a proč 
                                o nich přemýšlet?
 Finmag.cz - 17 July 2024
 Zaměstnanecké akcie, 
                                lépe řečeno zaměstnanecké akciové 
                                opční pány (ESOP – Employee Stock Option 
                                Plan), si čím dál častěji nacházejí 
                                cestu i k menším českým...
 FR      6 - Wehr reprise par 
                                ses salariés
 L'Ami hebdo - 1 July 2024
 Placée en redressement judiciaire 
                                le 31 janvier dernier, l'entreprise Wehr, fabricante 
                                de portes et fenêtres PVC, installée à Lutterbach, 
                                a été reprise par...
 FR      7 - Le 
                                plan d’actionnariat salarié, comment ça marche 
                                en trois points clés
 Les Echos - 11 July 2024
 Succès Les annonces de plans 
                                d'actionnariat salarié ont fleuri en nombre depuis 
                                le printemps, le plus souvent de la part de grandes 
                                entreprises du Cac 40,...
 FR      8 - La 
                                Meusienne reprise par ses salariés en Société 
                                coopérative de production
 Le Figaro - 11 July 2024
 L'entreprise centenaire La 
                                Meusienne, spécialisée dans la fabrication de 
                                tubes en acier, a été reprise sous forme de société 
                                coopérative de...
 FR      9 - Societe 
                                Generale: success of the 2024 Global Employee 
                                Share Ownership Programme
 Nasdaq - 25 July 2024
 ... 812035548 shares with 
                                a nominal value of EUR 1.25 per share. Employee 
                                share ownership is a long-term collective 
                                commitment mechanism regularly...
 FR      10 - TotalEnergies 
                                SE UK Regulatory Announcement: Half-year Report
 Business Wire - 26 July 2024
 ... European Federation 
                                of Employee Share Ownership; Deployment of 
                                a generative artificial intelligence tool for 
                                all TotalEnergies' employees; Ambition ...
 FR      11 - La 
                                verrerie Duralex reprise par les salariés
 Le Monde.fr - 28 July 2024
 Le tribunal d'Orléans valide 
                                le projet de SCOP des salariés de Duralex, dans 
                                l'agglomération d'Orléans. Avec ses 228 salariés, 
                                cette usine de verres réputés...
 FR      12 - «L’actionnariat 
                                salarié a-t-il le vent en poupe au sein des sociétés 
                                du CAC 40?»
 MSN - 31 July 2024
 Mais selon la Fédération 
                                européenne de l'actionnariat salarié (FEAS), 
                                «l'actionnariat salarié est de moins en moins 
                                démocratique en Europe». D'un ...
 FR      13 - Comment 
                                la verrerie Duralex a été sauvée par ses salariés
 Forbes France - 3 Aug 2024
 Après plusieurs mois d'incertitude, 
                                l'illustre verrerie Duralex a échappé à la fermeture 
                                et appartient désormais à ses salariés. Quelques 
                                jours après le...
 FR      14 - Les 
                                Scop, un modèle d’avenir ?
 La Vie - 23 Aug 2024
 Au milieu de l'été 2024, l'entreprise 
                                de verres Duralex a été sauvée de la faillite 
                                par ses salariés, autorisés à se constituer en 
                                société coopérative et...
 PL      15 - Akcjonariat 
                                pracowniczy, program poleceń, szkolenia - 
                                ta sieć chce być pożądanym 
                                pracodawcą
 DlaHandlu.pl - 25 July 2024
 W Polsce ponad 96 proc. wszystkich 
                                uprawnionych pracowników Auchan partycypuje w 
                                programie akcjonariatu pracowniczego. Akcjonariat 
                                pracowniczy, program...
 SI      16 - Vlada 
                                potrdila izhodišča zakona o lastniški zadrugi 
                                delavcev
 rtvslo.si - 10 July 2024
 Vlada je potrdila izhodišča 
                                za pripravo zakona o lastniški zadrugi delavcev. 
                                Jedro in smisel zakona bodo po pojasnilih ministrstva 
                                za solidarno prihodnost...
 UK      17 - Anderson 
                                Clark Motor Repairs moves to employee ownership
 Motor Trader - 1 July 2024
 Research from Co-operative 
                                Development Scotland shows that the number of 
                                employee-owned businesses in Scotland now 
                                sits at 286, up 47% since 2022.
 UK      18 - Brazen 
                                becomes employee-owned
 PR Week - 3 July 2024
 Manchester-based consumer 
                                PR agency Brazen has become majority employee-owned. 
                                ... Brazen owners Nina and Tom Webb have sold 
                                85 per cent of their shares ...
 UK      19 - Bakery 
                                ingredients supplier R&W Scott transitions 
                                to employee-owned model
 Scottish Financial News - 
                                9 July 2024
 This form of ownership is 
                                gaining popularity – there are now over 200 employee-owned 
                                companies in Scotland – and there is strong evidence 
                                to show ...
 UK      20 - Sevenoaks 
                                Sound and Vision becomes an employee-owned business
 What Hi-Fi? - 10 July 2024
 Sevenoaks Sound and Vision, 
                                one of the largest hi-fi and home cinema retailers 
                                in the UK, has announced that it is now an employee-owned 
                                business.
 UK      21 - Planning 
                                and architectural consultancy becomes employee-owned
 Insider Media - 10 July 2024
 A Yorkshire planning, masterplanning 
                                and architectural consultancy has become an employee-owned 
                                business. Wakefield-based Spawforths works on 
                                a ...
 UK      22 - Gusto 
                                Group to become 100% employee owned
 Employee Benefits - 12 July 
                                2024
 Gusto Group to become 100% 
                                employee owned ... Manufacturing, 
                                construction and architecture business Gusto Group 
                                will transition to an employee ownership ...
 UK      23 - R&W 
                                Scott transitions to employee ownership
 Food Manufacture - 12 July 
                                2024
 Premium bakery and confectionery 
                                ingredients supplier R&W Scott has transitioned 
                                to employee ownership. The group 
                                now operates under an Employee ...
 UK      24 - HeartVets 
                                becomes first referral practice to become an Employee 
                                Owned Trust
 VetSurgeon.org - 19 July 2024
 HeartVets, the UK's largest 
                                cardiology referral practice has become an Employee 
                                Owned Trust (EOT). The practice, which has 
                                nine clinicians ...
 UK      25 - Ashton-Under-Lyne 
                                training firm transfers to employee ownership
 Business Sale Report - 23 
                                July 2024
 Standguide Group, a training 
                                firm based in Ashton-Under-Lyne, has become 100 
                                per cent employee-owned. The company's 
                                move to employee ownership was ...
 UK      26 - Making 
                                our employees our partners the right call for 
                                growth, says Cardinal CEO
 The Loadstar - 24 July 2024
 Speaking to The Loadstar on 
                                the anniversary of the decision by its directors 
                                to sell 68% of Cardinal's stock to an employee-owned 
                                trust, CEO Brian ...
 UK      27 - Major 
                                temporary staff provider becomes employee-owned
 Insider Media - 24 July 2024
 Yorke added: "The Employee-Owned 
                                Trust model will give employees a sense of ownership, 
                                responsibility, and pride in their work, ultimately 
                                driving ...
 UK      28 - Proserv 
                                completes management buyout and introduces employee 
                                ownership
 Scottish Financial News - 
                                24 July 2024
 Aberdeen-headquartered Proserv 
                                has undergone a sponsor-backed management buyout 
                                (MBO), and is introducing an employee 
                                ownership scheme, ...
 UK      29 - Leeds 
                                creative agency becomes employee owned
 Prolific North - 26 July 2024
 Leeds creative agency becomes 
                                employee owned ... Leeds-based Network 
                                Design & Marketing has become an Employee 
                                Ownership Trust (EOT). It means that ...
 UK      30 - Engage 
                                Interactive becomes employee-owned
 Prolific North - 30 July 2024
 Leeds-based digital marketing 
                                agency Engage Interactive has announced its transition 
                                to becoming employee owned, with 
                                100 percent of the ...
 UK      31 - Union 
                                Industries celebrates 10 years as an Employee-Owned 
                                Trust with record success
 Business Up North - 30 July 
                                2024
 Union Industries, the UK's 
                                leading manufacturer of high-speed industrial 
                                roller doors, is celebrating its 10th anniversary 
                                as an Employee-Owned ...
 UK      32 - Medical 
                                negligence specialist firm becomes employee-owned
 Legal Futures - 31 July 2024
 Medical negligence specialist 
                                firm becomes employee-owned. 31 July 2024. 
                                Posted by Nick Hilborne. Grayston: Firm can go 
                                from strength to strength. A ...
 UK      33 - Cambridgeshire 
                                dealer embarks on new future as an EOT
 Catering Insight - 31 July 
                                2024
 Cambridgeshire-based BI Catering 
                                Equipment Services is set to become a 100% employee-owned 
                                business, it can be revealed.
 UK      34 - SWS becomes 
                                Employee-Owned
 The Global Recruiter - 6 Aug 
                                2024
 Strategic Workforce Solutions 
                                Group Ltd (SWS) has become an Employee-Owned 
                                Business. Under the new structure, companies forming 
                                the SWS Group ...
 UK      35 - Conlon 
                                Group becomes an employee-owned business
 The Business Desk - 8 Aug 
                                2024
 Conlon Group becomes an employee-owned 
                                business ... Preston-based construction business 
                                Conlon has moved from family ownership to an Employee-Ownership ...
 UK      36 - Valloop 
                                partners with GFT to build platform that helps 
                                accelerate and scale employee ownership
 Yahoo Finance - 13 Aug 2024
 Bespoke Valloop Exchange platform 
                                aims to help accelerate the transition of Small 
                                to Medium Sized Enterprise (SME) businesses from 
                                privately owned to employee owned through innovative 
                                use of AI.
 UK      37 - RA 
                                Information Systems Announces Its Transition To 
                                Employee-Owned Business Via EOT
 UKSPA - 16 Aug 2024
 RA Information Systems, software 
                                company and IT solutions providers, announced 
                                its transition to an employee-owned business 
                                through an Employee ...
 UK      38 - Preston 
                                City Council praise Conlon Group
 Preston City Council - 21 
                                Aug 2024
 21 August 2024: Preston based 
                                construction company, Conlon Group, becomes an 
                                employee-owned business.
 UK      39 - Brabners 
                                helps recruitment agency become employee owned
 Lancashire Business View - 
                                28 Aug 2024
 Phill Bateman, founder and 
                                director, TRG, said: “Completing our transition 
                                to being employee owned is a huge 
                                moment in our existence. While nothing ...
 UK      40 - UK 
                                and Ireland specialist McKinlay Kidd becomes employee-owned
 Travel Weekly - 29 Aug 2024
 UK and Ireland specialist 
                                operator McKinlay Kidd has become an employee-owned 
                                firm as co-founders Heather McKinlay and Robert 
                                Kidd take a step ...
 UK      41 - Scots 
                                tour operator McKinlay Kidd becomes employee-owned
 Scottish Financial News - 
                                30 Aug 2024
 Glasgow-based tour operator 
                                McKinlay Kidd, which projects turnover in excess 
                                of £8 million this year, has become employee-owned.
 US      42 - Balls 
                                Food Stores transfers company ownership to workers
 Grocery Dive - 2 July 2024
 The 25-store Midwestern chain 
                                has formed an Employee Stock Ownership Plan (ESOP), 
                                which lets employees gain an ownership interest 
                                through shares of ...
 US      43 - Rovers 
                                North sells to employees, creating a path to a 
                                better future for employee owners
 Vermont Business Magazine 
                                - 22 July 2024
 ... Employee Stock 
                                Ownership Plan, the most common broad-based 
                                employee ownership business model 
                                in the United States. The company's founders Mark 
                                and ...
 US      44 - Run 
                                for, by its employees: Paragus IT completes 8-year 
                                transition to being 100% employee-owned
 Amherst Bulletin - 24 July 
                                2024
 The company is officially 
                                100% employee-owned, an eight-year ... 
                                employee-owned, with ...
 US      45 - A 
                                primer for investors branching into employee ownership
 ImpactAlpha - 8 Aug 2024
 These funds are focused on 
                                market-rate returns and occasionally invest in 
                                employee ownership transactions, 
                                in particular Employee Stock Ownership ...
 US      46 - New 
                                Report Identifies Funds Focused on Investing in 
                                EO Companies
 NCEO - 14 Aug 2024
 A new report identifies 53 
                                funds in the U.S. and Canada that invest entirely 
                                or partly in employee-owned companies. [More...]
 US       47 - The 
                                Menke Group Celebrates 50 Years of ESOP Excellence
 PR Newswire - 28 Aug 2024
 Menke has helped more than 
                                4,000 companies become employee owned 
                                and has designed and installed ESOPs all over 
                                the United States, serving companies ...
 VN      48 - Liberalization 
                                of Vietnam's Employee Stock Ownership Plan [ESOP] 
                                Regulations
 Lexology - 9 Aug 2024
 On June 28, 2024, the State 
                                Bank of Vietnam (“SBVN”) issued Circular 23/2024/TT-NHNN, 
                                with new rules governing employee stock 
                                ownership plans…
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