ECONOMIC SURVEY OF EMPLOYEE OWNERSHIP IN EUROPEAN
COUNTRIES
IN 2009
The new Annual Economic Survey is available
The
most recent numbers show that European employees
took advantage of lower share prices to increase
their share. This is the main conclusion of the
economic survey of employee ownership in the European
countries in 2009. The survey brings an exhaustive
information about the 2.475 largest European companies,
employing 33.4 million people in 2009.
2009
2008 2007 2006
Employee owners
9.3 million 9 million
8.4 million
Employees' share in ownership structure
2.86% 2.79%
2.75% 2.43%
Capitalisation held by employees
166 billion € 249 billion
€ 291 billion € 213 billion €
% European companies having employee ownership
91% 83.8% 81.4%
77.4%
% European companies having broad-based plans
53.1% 50.9% 49%
45.2%
% European companies having launched new plans
30.3% 35.3% 26.5%
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Democratizing employee ownership in
European companies
Every
large European company has 4 Top Executives on
average, each holding 6.475.000 € in his company
in 2009. Most large European companies have now
employee share plans. Most of them express the
idea that employee ownership should be increased
in order to align employees and shareholders'
interests. However, most companies began with
share plans for Top Executives. This is to be
compared with 9.3 million common employee owners,
each holding 10.000 € in 2009. Many discussions
occurred recently about Executives' remunerations.
What about ownership? Detailed
numbers
Country
files
Each European country
can easily be compared to others regarding employee
ownership in 2009, thanks to a set of 10 graphs,
using fully comparable information.
Country files will be soon available for download
here. Now available: Belgium
Full
database of employee ownership in European companies
The Economic Survey and the European Employee
Ownership Top 100 rankings are just the tip of
the iceberg. These are based on the screening
of the 2.500 largest European companies. The full
database is available for research work. More
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