employee ownership
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Democrat Jared Polis kicks off gubernatorial campaign at employee-owned Colorado Springs grocery store
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Freshly minted gubernatorial candidate Jared Polis, a Democratic congressman from Boulder, visited an employee-owned grocery store in Colorado Springs on Monday for one of several Front Range stops meant to highlight key campaign themes. Standing in the produce section of a recently opened Save-A-Lot grocery store on North Academy Boulevard, Polis said he wants to…
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Don’t care for your boss? Buy him out! … And now, the state will help
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Colorado could see more success stories like Fort Collins’s New Belgium Brewing Co. – a 100 percent-employee-owned dynamo in our state’s booming craft-brew trade – with Gov. John Hickenlooper signing into law this week a bill to assist employee buyouts. The bipartisan House Bill 1214 – sponsored in the House by Denver Democratic state Rep. James Coleman, and in the upper chamber by…
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Are more employee buyouts just around the corner in Colorado?
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Don’t care for the way management runs your workplace? Would you do things differently if you ran the joint? Don’t just grouse about it; take it over — the legal way: Buy ’em out so you and your coworkers can run the business for yourselves. Granted, that’s easier said than done, but it’s also about to become…
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Now on tap: A plan to brew more employee-owned companies
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State House Democrats believe Colorado could be on the crest of a new wave in the business marketplace: employee-owned companies. While the concept has been around a long time – and occasionally has been put into practice – it seems to hold new allure amid the uncertainties of the rapidly changing, 21st century economy. It also draws inspiration from…
