News about EO
July 2010
The Coalition and employee ownership
The new Coalition Government has made several pledges in its Coalition Agreement to introduce co-operatives, mutuals and employee-owned businesses in public services.
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March 2010
Treasury Minister meets EOA leaders
Employee owned firms´ tax concerns were put to Treasury Minister Sarah McCarthy-Fry at a Parliamentary breakfast meeting organised by EOA in March
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March 2010
Scottish business audience gets EO message
The founder of EOA members Childbase told an audience of Scottish business owners and public sector employers how employee ownership helped transform the company he formed with his father, former NFC boss Sir Peter Thompson, into one of the UK´s largest private providers of childcare.
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March 2010
Lord Mandelson takes employee ownership question
New Cass Business School research backed by John Lewis and EOA was the basis of a question in the House of Lords to Business Secretary Lord Mandelson from fellow Labour peer Lord Brooke of Alverthorpe
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February 2010
More names for Ownership Commission
The independent Commission on Ownership, reported in the special edition of EOA’s Bulletin in December, is expected to begin work in March. More commissioners to work alongside Chairman Will Hutton have now been announced.
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January 2010
Cadbury - missed opportunity
Employee ownership was a better option than Cadbury’s controversial sell-out to US food giant Kraft according to former EOA chairman Andrew Gunn in a letter published in The Guardian on 22 January
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January 2010
Circle Health Partners' Conference
EOA members Circle Health held their annual conference on 14 January for 400 partners at their brand new Norman Foster-designed hospital on the outskirts of Bath
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January 2010
Institute for Government event on reform of public services
Speaking at an Institute for Government event on "Post bureaucratic public services" on 11 January 2010, the Rt Hon Oliver Letwin MP described the principles that would guide a Conservative government's reform of public services.
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December 2009
Iconic newspaper goes employee-owned
One of Scotland’s most famous newspapers, the West Highland Free Press, is to become employee owned. Under a deal achieved with help from the Baxi Partnership, the weekly paper’s staff will buy the title from its current owners and set up an employee benefit trust.
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December 2009
John Logue obituary
Professor John Logue, a leading figure in the American employee ownership world, died suddenly just before Christmas after a brief illness.
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