EFES PRESS REVIEW - JANUARY 2012


Our selection / Notre sélection / Nuestra selección

  We made a selection of 29 remarkable articles in 8 countries: Canada, France, Ireland, Italy, Korea, UK, USA, Zimbabwe.
Canada: “We are an employee owned company and this is shareholders' money being invested to build it. So, all eyes are on it.”
France: Contradictory indicators: Employee share ownership weakening or rebounding? New successful employee share plan for Safran. Spanish Repsol employee share plan will be developed with Société Générale Securities Services.
Ireland: Worker share trust warns it may not have any future role in Eircom while employees risk losing their shareholding.
Italy: The employee shareholders association approves Unicredit's management.
Korea: KB Financial Group's labor union uses the right to vote invested by members of the employee stock ownership association.
UK: Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg says he wants this decade to become known for employee share ownership based on the John Lewis model. “We don’t believe our problem is too much capitalism: we think it’s that too few people have capital. We need more individuals to have a real stake in their firms". Businesses where employees have a stake enjoy lower absenteeism, less staff turnover, lower production costs, higher productivity, higher wages and a better track record at weathering the downturn. Increasing employee share ownership in the UK could be the key to unlocking growth and boosting productivity. A legal checklist for employee-owned public service start-ups.
USA: Some ESOP fables.
Zimbabwe: Indigenisation plan: The employee share ownership scheme will promote individual growth and prosperity.
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   Notre sélection propose 29 articles remarquables dans 8 pays: Canada, Corée, France, Irlande, Italie, Royaume Uni, USA, Zimbabwe.
Canada: “Nous sommes une entreprise d'actionnaires salariés et c'est notre investissement qui la fait marcher. Alors, on a tous l'œil dessus."
Corée: Le syndicat du Groupe KB compte sur l'exercice des droits de vote des membres de l'association d'actionnaires salariés.
France: Indicateurs contradictoires: Coup de frein ou rebond pour l'actionnariat salarié? Nouveau plan d'actionnariat salarié réussi pour Safran. L'espagnol Repsol mandate Générale Securities Services pour l'administration de son plan international d'actionnariat salarié.
Irlande: Le trust d'actionnariat salarié de Eircom pourrait être évincée, tandis que les actionnaires salariés risquent de tout perdre.
Italie: L'association d'actionnaires salariés approuve la gestion d'Unicredit.
UK: Le Vice-Premier Ministre Nick Clegg veut faire des prochaines années la décennie de l'actionnariat salarié.
Inspiration: le modèle John Lewis. “We don’t believe our problem is too much capitalism: we think it’s that too few people have capital. We need more individuals to have a real stake in their firms". Avec l'actionnariat salarié on constate moins d'absentéisme, plus de stabilité des personnes, des coûts de production réduits et plus de productivité, des salaires plus élevés et une meilleure résistance à la crise. Promouvoir l'actionnariat salarié en Grande Bretagne pourrait bien être la clé pour débloquer la croissance et la productivité. Une checklist officielle pour la transformation des services publics en actionnariat salarié.
USA: Une série de cas vécus.
Zimbabwe: Plan d'indigénisation: l'actionnariat salarié devrait promouvoir la croissance et la prospérité.
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  OUR SELECTION / NOTRE SELECTION / NUESTRA SELECCIÓN


CA   16 - PCL moves forward with aggressive expansion plans
             Journal of Commerce - Jan 16, 2012
             “We are an employee owned company and this is shareholders' money being invested to build it. So, all eyes are on it.” There are a lot of PCL employees ...
FR   7 - SAFRAN : employee stock ownership offering a big hit in France
             4-traders - Jan 9, 2012
             The Safran group has completed a leveraged employee stock ownership operation in France, and is now expanding this program to its international entities. ...
FR   9 - Stanislas de Germay Directeur Général Equalis Capital
             Finyear.com - 9 janv. 2012
             Il sera plus particulièrement en charge des activités actionnariat salarié et épargne salariale qu'il connait bien pour les avoir développées au sein ...
FR   10 - Safran-Les salariés montent à environ 17,5% du capital
             Reuters - 9 janv. 2012
             "Cette opération permet à Safran de conforter son actionnariat salarié, l'un des plus importants au sein des sociétés du CAC 40", a déclaré le groupe dans ...
FR   11 - Safran : Fort engouement pour la dernière offre d'actionnariat salarié
             Trading Sat - 9 janv. 2012
             Cette opération permet à Safran de conforter son actionnariat salarié, qui est déjà l'un des plus importants au sein des sociétés du CAC 40.
FR   12 - Societe Generale : SGSS mandaté par Repsol en Espagne
             Trading Sat - 9 janv. 2012
             ... et pour opérer comme agent bancaire et fournisseur de règlement pour son plan d'actionnariat salarié. Les deux plans ont été lancés en 2011.
FR   25 - L'actionnariat salarié à la peine
             Le Figaro - 24 janv. 2012
             Preuve que le sujet ne fait pas figure de priorité : parmi les 145 sociétés françaises disposant d'un actionnariat salarié, seules 25 ont répondu à la ...
FR   26 - Suppression des stock-options : Hollande arrive-t-il après la ...
             Quoi.info - 24 janv. 2012
             Cette mesure pourrait aller de pair avec le développement de l'actionnariat salarié et de l'intéressement en entreprise.
FR   27 - L'actionnariat salarié peine à trouver un nouveau souffle
             L'AGEFI - 25 janv. 2012
             Touché par la crise, l'actionnariat salarié marque le pas. Selon le baromètre 2011 de la Fédération française des associations d'actionnaires salariés (FAS) ...
FR   29 - Salaires 2012: les cadres à la diète
             L'Expansion - 31 janv. 2012
             Egalement en phase avec ce constat, Philippe Burger ajoute : "Nous observons un regain de demandes pour l'actionnariat salarié, après une phase de retrait ...
KR   28 - Outside director recommended by KB Bank employees
             The Hankyoreh - Jan 30, 2012
             KB Financial Group's labor union stated on Sunday, “Using the right to vote invested in us by minority shareholders including members of the employee stock ownership association, we have decided to recommend lawyer Kim Jin of Minbyun Lawyers for a ...
IE   5 - Worker share trust warned it may not have any future role in Eircom
             Irish Independent - Jan 7, 2012
             By John Mulligan EIRCOM workers have been told that it remains uncertain if the company's Employee Share Ownership Trust (ESOT) will have any role in the ...
IE   6 - Eircom employees risk losing their shareholding under ...
             Irish Examiner - Jan 7, 2012
             The head of Eircom's employee share ownership trust (ESOT) — which owns a 35% stake in the company — has raised the issue via a note on the ESOT members' ...
IT   4 - Unicredit: Cassara' (Apau), la banca e' sana, le cose ...
             LiberoQuotidiano.it - 7 gen 2012
             Per gli azionisti dipendenti di Unicredit, "il management del gruppo e' piu' che adeguato. Federico Ghizzoni e' un vecchio bancario, non viene certo dalla ...
UK   13 - A legal checklist for employee-owned public service start-ups
             The Guardian - Jan 12, 2012
             When you're setting up an employee owned entity to take over public service delivery, there are a number of legal considerations. ...
UK   17 - Clegg calls for 'a John Lewis economy', driven by employee-owned ...
             WalesOnline - Jan 16, 2012
             by David Williamson, Western Mail DEPUTY Prime Minister Nick Clegg will unveil his vision of a “John Lewis economy” today, driven by employee-owned ...
UK   18 - Employee share ownership 'key to unlocking growth'
             People Management Magazine Online - Jan 16, 2012
             Clegg said he wanted to ensure that employee ownership got “into the bloodstream” of the British economy, and that the coalition planned to reduce red tape and revise the tax system to accommodate the concept. Speaking at an event hosted by the City of ...
UK   19 - Nick Clegg calls for a 'John Lewis economy'
              ITN NEWS - Jan 16, 2012
             Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg says he wants this decade to become known for employee share ownership based on the John Lewis model...
UK   20 - The John Lewis model and its lessons for the wider business world
             The Guardian - Jan 16, 2012
             The retailer's employee-owned partnership model operates differently from ... Greenham says both privately held and employee owned businesses can contribute ...
UK   22 - John Lewis chief warns on owner model
             Financial Times - Jan 16, 2012
             By George Parker, Andrea Felsted and Elizabeth Rigby Nick Clegg's call for Britain to become “more of a John Lewis economy” with mass employee share ownership has won support from the retail partnership's chairman – but he warned there were limits to ...
UK   23 - Will you buy into 'John Lewis economy'?
             Financial Times - Jan 20,2012
             At present, the number of fully employee-owned companies in the UK remains small, but many of the UK's largest stock market listed companies – including Tesco and BT – already offer their staff a tax-efficient way to buy into their shares. ...
UK   24 - Are you saying John Lewis isn't perfect?
             Financial Times - Jan 20,2012
             Are you saying that employee-owned companies perform poorly? No, I'm not aware of any evidence for that. A study by Alec Bryson and Richard Freeman of the Centre for Economic Performance at the London School of Economics found that employee ownership ...
US   1 - Ready to Move On? Consider Selling to Employees
             American Machinist - Dec 22, 2011
             Roger and Joyce Stewart founded the company in 1970, and it became 40% employee-owned in 1988, as part of the founders' long-term exit strategy. They were both in their late 50s when they set up an “Employee Stock Ownership Plan” (ESOP) to begin ...
US   2 - How employee stock ownership plans provide business owners a ...
             Smart Business Network - Jan 3, 2012
             An excellent way to do that is with an ESOP, an employee stock ownership plan. ... according to the National Center for Employee Ownership. ...
US   8 - BREAKING: Kentucky's largest architectural and engineering firm becomes 100 ...
             The Lane Report - Jan 9, 2012
             Planning for the ESOP transition has been in motion since early 2011. The transaction is funded internally without the use of any external debt capital. Luckett & Farley originally started its ESOP in January 2000 when the previous owners of the firm ...
US   14 - Huntsville-based Torch Technologies achieves long-time goal of ...
             The Huntsville Times - Jan 12, 2012
             "We're quite excited," said Torch CEO Bill Roark, because "we've been working for almost 10 years to be 100 percent employee owned." Full employee ownership ...
US   15 - Diversified Plastics Sold to Employees
             Product Design & Development - Jan 12, 2012
             In 1984, Design Tool & Engineering, Inc. was added as a wholly owned ... were ready to move ahead in making Diversified Plastics an employee owned company. ...
US   21 - Employee ownership gives workers stake in future
             Waterloo Cedar Falls Courier - Jan 16, 2012
             But some area firms are helping their employees by giving them a financial stake in the company through employee share ownership plans, or ESOPs. ESOPs aren't a comprehensive strategy, but they can help workers save for retirement, financial advisers ...
ZW   3 - Zimbabwe: Indigenisation, Empowerment - Engine for Economic Growth
             AllAfrica.com - Jan 4, 2012
             The employee share ownership scheme will promote individual growth and ... According to the US National Centre for Employee Ownership, on average, ...

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