Month: March 2018

By Bruce Tulgan Employers in 2018 are scrambling to adjust to a new normal of change and uncertainty driven by…

By Mike Lorence, PH.D. You’re about to digest a very meaty article with a ton of actionable strategies regarding the…

By Jennifer Briggs When a company sells to an Employee Stock Ownership Plan (ESOP) or a group starts a co-op,…

Newest of the GAWDA ESOPs, McDantim Inc. changed its organizational structure at the end of 2017. The successful company of…

Toll Company was an early adopter. Started in St. Paul, Minn., in 1945, the company established its ESOP in 1975…

Company Origins In 1965, Philip Keeler founded Aluminum Precision Products (APP). In 1992, APP acquired Catalina Cylinders. Keeler and two…

The company marks its silver anniversary as an employee-owned company this year. With three Minnesota locations, the firm can service…

Company Origins Norco Inc. began in Boise, Id., in 1948 as the welding supply division of the Nordling Auto Parts…

Company Origins In 1968, Richard “Dick” Couch Jr.  and Bob Dean formed the company after they invented a water-injected plasma-arc…

Since a modest start in 1969, this third-generation welding supply and gas distributorship has grown to become the largest independently…