Chroma Technology Corp. is a manufacturer of interference filters for the ultra-violet, visible and near-infrared portions of the spectrum. We are proud to be an active and caring member of the communities in which we live and that we serve. 

Our mission is to provide the best products and solutions for our customers' ever-changing needs. To that end we develop lasting relationships with our customers by providing applications expertise and exceptional customer service. Chroma Technology is 100% employee-owned: each employee has a share of the responsibility for Chroma's success, and each earns a fair share of the rewards. We value the economic and social needs of the individual as well as the needs of the company as a whole. This is how we create the committed, involved and healthy employee body that is key to achieving our mission. Chroma Technology is an active and caring member of the community in which we live as well as the scientific and technical communities that we serve. We give back to these communities by providing jobs, offering financial support to local non-profit service agencies, sponsoring educational opportunities for students of science and technology, and promoting employee ownership.

Churchill Mortgage is a full-service and financially sound leader in the mortgage industry. They work with real estate agents, buyers and sellers. Named one of the “Top Workplaces” eight years in a row, Churchill Mortgage is proud to be 100% employee owned.

Ciranda supplies brands and manufacturers with the highest quality certified organic and non-GMO ingredients, with a focus on sustainable supply and fair trade practices. As the U.S. organic market began to mature, they saw an opportunity to support organic market growth in North America, and at the same time support the development of global communities they had become so connected with. In 2000, Ciranda transformed from an export model, to primarily an import model as it operates today, offering a core portfolio of ingredients derived from coconut, palm fruit, cacao and tapioca.

Throughout its history, Ciranda has focused on innovation through the growth and commercialization of organic ingredients. Ciranda introduced North America to organic tapioca starch in 1998, and organic tapioca syrup in 2001. In 2002, we partnered with a Brazilian palm oil producer to offer sustainable organic palm oils. Organic and fair trade cocoa, chocolates and coconut joined our portfolio in the years following. More recently in 2018, they expanded commercial availability of organic cassava flour and organic rice syrup, both with social programs designed to positively impact the livelihood of farmers at the beginning of the ingredient's lifecycle. 

Cirtronics is a contract manufacturer based in Milford, NH. With over 40 years of experience meeting the exacting standards of medical equipment, robotics and other high-tech industries, we’re ready for your project. Cirtronics customer-focus means they will create a program that is specifically tailored to fit their clients' needs. From the design table to the shipping dock, as employees, are both experts and owners. Employee ownership of their business completely aligns the best interests of their customers and their people. The results: better communication, dedicated teamwork and high-quality products.

Commercial Tire has been serving the Great Northwest since founder Bob Schwenkfelder opened a tire shop in Boise, Idaho, in 1968. Since then, they have grown throughout the Northwest and became a completely employee-owned company. Their skilled technicians provide professional automotive services and specialize in tires, wheel alignments, oil changes, brakes, and much more. Their technicians are ASE certified, and use the latest tools and equipment when servicing your vehicle to ensure that it is road ready.

Commonwealth Electric of the Midwest  is a full service electrical and communications contractor, with an established position in Arizona, Iowa and Nebraska markets.  Our ability to handle challenging and highly technical projects is what we’re known for and most of our projects are referral based, as a result.  We are constantly striving to achieve the best and exceed the needs and expectations of our customers.

Commonwealth Electric’s origins are rooted in the Midwest, and we’ve been in business for over 75 years.  We pride ourselves on not only the quality workmanship you’ll find at each of our project sites, but also on our employee retention. Our strong work ethic is the “Commonwealth way,” and this shows in aspects of our company operations.

Commonwealth Fire Protection Company #CFPC provides a variety of fire sprinkler inspection, emergency service and trustworthy builds to the mid-Atlantic region for over 40 years. Holding licenses in PA, NJ, MD, DE and over fifty local jurisdictions, #CFPC is well positioned to service both local and regional customers. In addition to our in-house capabilities, we have developed an experienced network of construction partners to perform any level of fire sprinkler installation, inspection or maintenance.

Consigli Construction Co., Inc. is a leading construction manager and general contractor with offices in Boston and Milford, Mass., Washington, D.C., Portland, Maine, Hartford, Conn., and New York State. Consigli serves corporate, academic, healthcare, life sciences, institutional, landmark restoration and federal clients. A leader in sustainable construction practices, Consigli is consistently ranked in the national Top 100 Green Contractors by Engineering News-Record Magazine. With offices in Maine, Massachusetts, New York and Connecticut, Consigli has been recognized as one of the best places to work by The Boston Globe, Boston Business Journal and Mainebiz. 

The Consulting Engineers Group, Inc. an Illinois corporation, was established in 1966 by Norman L. Scott to provide structural engineering and management services to the construction industry. Over the next few years, Jerry Goettsche, Les Martin and Armand Gustaferro joined the firm, adding more design capability. The ensuing years saw the scope of services greatly expand to include parking and transportation consulting services and concrete restoration engineering. In 2008, CEG-New Mexico, headed by Chris Mosley, was incorporated in New Mexico and opened when the employees of Precast Inc. became part of the CEG Companies. Precast Inc. was established in 1984 by Barb and Vic Burri and provided quality precast concrete detailing services to a diverse group of clients across the country. There are currently close to 150 employees throughout all the CEG Companies. In addition to the offices in Mt. Prospect, IL, San Antonio, TX, Albuquerque, NM, and Lake Mary, FL, satellite offices in Colorado Springs, CO, Temecula, CA, and Horseshoe Bay, TX, provide additional professional resources. The CEG Group is an Employee Stock Ownership Plan (ESOP) company with all employees of the affiliated CEG Companies participating in that ownership.

Consumers Pipe & Supply is a strong, independent regional leader providing quality pipe, valves and fittings to the domestic and international industry since 1965. They pride themselves on providing quality products, technical support, competitive pricing and quality service to meet the needs of their customers. 

Their multiple branch locations are supported with the best industry sales experts to help you with all your needs. This experienced sales force is backed by a technology base that includes a powerful computer network, GPS and radio dispatched delivery trucks, real-time inventory and instant communications. 

Cool Transports is headquartered in Bloomington, CA. The company provides transportation services for refined products, gasoline, diesel, ethanol, trans-mix and Jet Fuel in the safest possible manner within the customers specified time-frame. We also provide inter-terminal meter calibration and monitoring services for all terminal and station operations.

Cool Transport's parent company, Nuckles Oil Company, Inc., became 100% employee-owned in 2022. 

Cooperative Home Care Associates (CHCA) is a nationally recognized, worker-owned home care agency in the Bronx. CHCA was founded in 1985 to provide quality home care to clients by providing quality jobs for direct-care workers.

CHCA started with 12 home health aides. The cooperative now employs more than 2,000 staff. Together with PHI, a nonprofit founded by CHCA in 1992, CHCA maintains an employer-based workforce development program that provides free training for 600 low-income and unemployed women annually and serves as a significant driver of employment in the Bronx.

We are a licensed home care agency that provides high-quality, reliable services to people who are elderly, chronically ill, or living with disabilities. CHCA provides services throughout Manhattan, Brooklyn, and the Bronx to people approved for home care by Medicaid, those who are privately insured or private pay. We also operate as a Fiscal Intermediary for approved consumer directed (CDPAP) services.

The Corken Steel Products Company was founded in 1955 as a wholesale distributor of metal roofing and rain-carrying products and building products. During the following years, the company expanded into heating and air conditioning equipment and all related products. Today, the company is comprised of three separate divisions – Heating and Air Conditioning, Roofing and Sheet Metal Fabrication – operating out of fifteen facilities including the distribution center which opened in November 2005, and the newest branch opening in southern Louisville in 2019.

Cornerstone is one of the nation’s leading independent investment consulting firms. They are committed to building and preserving the assets of institutions and wealthy families, now and into the future.

Like the needs of their diverse clientele, their capabilities are ever-increasing. The constant is their culture of providing leadership in a complex financial marketplace. There are distinctions between legal requirements and best practices. Cornerstone's mandate is to transcend requirements to provide their clients what they truly deserve: a consulting firm wholly committed to them and their best interests.

In 2016, as a commitment to their employees and clients, the firm became 100% employee owned through the implementation of an ESOP (Employee Stock Ownership Plan). This means each employee/owner benefits from the long-term success of the firm. That success is rooted in their commitment to client satisfaction.

Cornerstone is an Alaskan based firm that believes in protecting the interests of the businesses and customers in our communities. With an experienced management team we can assemble the ideal collection system for you, and provide you with the professionalism, service, and recoveries you expect.

Covenant Eyes was founded by Ron DeHaas after he tragically lost his family in a car accident in 1992. He has since worked to develop resources for the betterment of and protection for families. Covenant Eyes is an employee-owned company headquartered in Owosso, Michigan. They empower their members to maintain their online integrity by utilizing their proprietary software. Their goal is to equip people with tools that provide protection and encourage accountability and trust in the fight against internet temptation. Over 100,000,000 Covenant Eyes accountability reports have generated 18 years of conversation-based accountability.  

Crafton Tull is an engineering, design, and surveying firm with more than 200 employees working across Arkansas and Oklahoma. 

Crafton Tull began contributing to the built environment in 1963 and has not stopped since. Our longevity, coupled with continuing investments in education and technology, has led to consistent growth that we plan to continue into the 21st century.

As a 100% employee-owned company, each person that joins the Crafton Tull team is a shareholder. Our employee-owners start each workday knowing they have a vested interest in our continued success. That sense of ownership drives everything we do.

Our clients appreciate knowing that their important projects are in the hands of people who truly care. Our ability to collaborate effectively across our region stems from the reality that each Crafton Tull team member works towards the same goal.

Creative Financial Staffing is a 100% employee-owned staffing firm headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts. The company was founded in 1994 by Dan Casey & Crowe LLP which was the 8th largest CPA firm in the nation. After steady years of steady growth, the company now operates 24 different locations across the country. CFS focuses specifically on staffing for finance and IT professionals. 

CFS became employee owned in 2014 when they implemented an Employee Stock Ownership Plan (ESOP). Employee ownership reinforces the company’s commitment to comradery, all the employee owners at CFS benefit and succeed together.

Founded in 1995 initially to address the Department of Defense (DoD) community’s needs, CSI designs, develops, implements, tests, deploys, and sustains, reliable and rugged electrical, software and hardware systems solutions to the complex problems of the DoD arena. CSI is a Woman-Owned Small Business (WOSB) with headquarters in Richardson, TX and west coast operations located in Roseville, CA to support our customers nationwide.

Custom Profile is a 100% employee-owned plastic manufacturing company headquartered in Grand Rapids, Michigan. The company was founded in 1992 and now operates three different locations in North America. 

In 2019, Custom Profile became employee-owned when they implemented an Employee Stock Ownership Plan (ESOP). The ESOP reinforces the company’s commitment to teamwork and complete quality control. 

D&W Diesel is a division of Jasper Holdings, Inc. and was acquired in October of 2021. D&W is a premier remanufacturer and distributor of a full line of diesel engine components, including fuel injection components, turbochargers, rotating electric, air compressors, and much more. They offer a full line of industrial products and services, including custom-built air compressor systems from Gardner Denver, and provide field service. They also design, build, and install custom tank truck systems to load and unload liquid and dry bulk materials. This is the next step in expanding the Jasper Holdings, Inc. footprint in the fuel and air products aftermarket, along with additional new products and services.

Founded in 1957, D. Wilson Construction Company has built a solid reputation as the leader in commercial and industrial construction. With offices in the Rio Grande Valley and San Antonio, D WIlson Construction serves all of South and Central Texas. Our completed projects cover a diverse range of educational facilities, corporate offices, industrial space, financial institutions, healthcare facilities, retail centers, houses of worship and more. 

For decades, D. Wilson has served clients in South & Central Texas with pride growing the business incrementally with increased annual revenues and new employee owners.  In 2007, the company broke the $50M annual revenue threshold, in 2014, the company doubled the annual revenue to +$100M annually with 44 employee owners.  Because of its outstanding commitment to building high quality commercial projects, D. Wilson Construction has been ranked as one of the Top 100 Construction Companies by ENR Texas & Louisiana Construction magazine since 2005.

When Mike Wilson retired in 2000, the brothers decided to sell the company to its employees via an Employee Stock Ownership Program (ESOP). Effective October 1, 2000, D. Wilson Construction Company was owned by the D. Wilson Construction Company Employee Stock Ownership Plan. The brothers financed the purchase on a 20-year note, selling 100% of the shares to 25 employees. The construction market boomed simultaneously, and the note was paid in full in only seven years.  The company currently has over 80 employee owners in South and Central Texas.

D.P. Nicoli, Inc. was founded in 1982 by David P. Nicoli. The company started primarily as a piling distributor and plate rental company, then it added shoring and slide rail products which would establish D.P Nicoli as the only one-stop resource for the shoring needs of the heavy construction industry.

D.P. Nicoli, Inc has become a leader in the shoring market by building long lasting relationships with customers and supplying the best products for their jobsite safety. The company hires and trains the best possible employees., with strategically established offices located in Oregon, Northern California, Washington, and Idaho.

DCS is a premier professional services firm providing engineering and managerial support services to Department of Defense customers. We are an employee-owned firm with a track record of sustained growth over 35 years. A focus on the highest levels of quality has enabled this sustained growth. We are not satisfied until our customers are, and this is a constant motivation. As employee-owners, we recognize that hiring and retaining the best talent is crucial to our mission. Our executive team brings seasoned experience and proven results. 

We are a transportation planning and transportation engineering firm that uses technology and innovation to advance integrated, functional, and implementable solutions that meet the transportation challenges our cities are facing in the 21st century. We work with clients and communities to enhance mobility by providing quality planning, design, and operations services. We are experts connecting communities.

DKS performs planning and design services for automobiles, buses, light rail, streetcars, bus rapid transit, commuter rail, freight, bicycles, pedestrians, and all transportation ground access. Our planners and designers use cutting-edge techniques to take transportation projects from conceptual planning and alternatives analysis to environmental approvals and funding feasibility, design and construction, testing, and operations and management, completing a full life cycle of project development. This involves application of state-of-the-art expertise in performance measures, operational simulation, travel demand forecast models, traffic control devices, traffic signal systems, transportation communication technologies, and intelligent transportation systems (ITS).

As leaders in innovation, we focus on results that ensure our transportation systems serve all members of the community, including those who walk, bike, take transit, drive, or transport goods. Our life’s work helps to build safer and more efficient communities that offer a variety of transportation options.

Delta Managed Solutions, Inc. (DMS) is business services company located in Sacramento, California. We provide a wide range of back-office, administrative, and financing services to charter schools throughout California, assisting them in overcoming the complex operational and compliance hurdles of school operation.

DMS is 100% employee-owned through its Employee Stock Ownership Plan (ESOP). Much like engaged students do better – so do engaged employees. In 2011, DMS established our ESOP to ensure each DMS employee-owner has a personal stake in our client’s success. In 2017, we became 100% employee-owned. Our employee-owners are dedicated to providing high quality customer service ensuring all our client schools are fully and accurately supported. Creating a company where employees think and act like owners means better collaboration, more responsiveness, and more innovative problem-solving – making both DMS and our client schools succeed. 

Dakota Supply Group is headquartered in Fargo, ND. Since it’s the company's founding in 1898—with roots dating back to 1868—Dakota Supply Group (DSG) has been dedicated to providing all the right connections to customers in the electrical; plumbing; HVAC; refrigeration; communications; utility; automation; waterworks; on-site sewer, water and well; filtration and metering technology industries. DSG has 52 locations across Montana, North and South Dakota, Minnesota, Iowa, Wisconsin, and Michigan. Across the upper Midwest, DSG's experienced team of specialists provides customers with solutions that help them to maximize their employees’ productivity and increase their company’s profitability.

DSG has been proudly employee-owned since 1991 and is now 100% owned by their employees. That means you are always working with an owner, and consequently, your success is recognized as the foundation of Dakota Supply Group.

When it comes to providing drivers in the Dayton, OH area with the absolute best selection at incredible prices, Dave Dennis Chrysler Jeep Dodge Ram is second to none. Our Chrysler dealership near Fairborn, OH, is home to a massive selection of new and pre-owned vehicles, and our dedicated, friendly and knowledgeable staff is here to ensure you are guided to the one that's ideal for your needs, budget and lifestyle. For more than 30 years, our 100% employee owned and operated dealership has been proudly serving the Dayton area not just with amazing vehicles, but with a community-minded attitude that sets us apart from the rest.

The Davey Tree Expert Company, which provides diversified tree services, grounds maintenance and environmental services. Headquartered in Kent, Ohio, Davey is the largest employee-owned company in the state and one of the largest in North America.

Founded in 1880 as a family-owned company, Davey’s story of employee acquisition began in the late 1970s when the Davey family decided to sell the company. Almost immediately, an employee-ownership exploratory committee was formed. In 1979, 114 employees made a financial commitment to directly purchase stock. The company redeemed thousands of shares of stock but reserved some to be sold to the newly created Davey Employee Stock Ownership Plan (ESOP), which attracted the participation of more than 400 employees.

Since 1979, Davey has grown considerably, becoming a billion dollar company in 2018 with more than 10,500 employees contributing throughout North America. While celebrating 40 years of employee ownership last year, Davey cracked the nation’s top 10 of the National Center for Employee Ownership's Employee Ownership 100.

Today, Davey proudly recognizes employee ownership as what makes them stand out. As Pat Covey, the company’s chairman, president and CEO attributed, “Employee ownership has allowed [Davey] to create a culture that has withstood a lot of economic and business challenges over time.” Davey’s success with its conversion to employee ownership offers a model for other companies interested in building resilience and longevity.

DeBlois Electric, Inc. has grown since 1967 to be one of Northern New England’s leading electrical contractors. A family owned and operated electrical contracting firm, DEI offers residential, commercial and industrial experience. With a full-time electrical design engineer on staff, we specialize in design & build services, as well as negotiated and competitively bid plan and specification projects.

Our resume includes electrical projects for hospitals, medical offices, commercial venues, retail/box stores, manufacturing, education, and residential/multi-unit residential. From our headquarters in Lewiston, Maine, we work throughout all areas of the state.

DeWitt & Associates, Inc. is the region’s industry leader in general contracting, construction management, design-build, and self-performed concrete. For over 60 years they've built their reputation on Ownership, Innovation, and Service. They have assembled the best resources in construction and management to take any project from concept to completion.

Established in 1991, Delta Pipeline has grown into a well-respected and recognized leader in the underground pipeline construction industry. Our foundation is built upon a leadership team with over 100 years of experience. We place great value in our relationships with our team members, trade partners and clients. It is through this combination of experience, professionalism and integrity that allows us to contribute, grow and lead the construction industry. Specializing in the installation of storm drain, sewer, water and fire lines, Delta Pipeline has successfully demonstrated its expertise over the years.

Projects include construction and redevelopment of schools and medical buildings, along with retail, office and industrial space. Working in both the private and public sector, we continue to partner with developers, general contractors and municipalities throughout Southern and Central California to complete high quality projects in a safe, efficient and economical manner. In 2017, we proudly created an Employee Stock Ownership Plan (ESOP) and became 100% employee owned! This landmark decision allowed Delta Pipeline to further establish meaningful benefits for recruitment, motivation and retention of our team members.

The Delta team is prepared for optimal performance. Digging trench, connecting pipe and caring about each other’s safety is our job. Making sure every team member is committed to the same standard of integrity is what motivates and differentiates Delta Pipeline. The company is passionate about developing our people through training, mentorship and team building. Delta Pipeline understand the success of our projects start with the success of our people and strives to complete projects on time and right the first time.

In 2017, after 25 years of success as a family-owned business, the decision was made to create an Employee Stock Ownership Plan (ESOP) and transition to becoming 100% employee-owned.

Today, Delta proudly identifies as “a family of dedicated employee owners committed to opportunity, success and stewardship.” By offering employees a personal stake, Delta seeks to attract, motivate, and retain talented team members.

By empowering employees with shared responsibility in the company’s success, Delta fosters a “culture of learning, growing and making a difference [that] never stops.”

Diamond Line Delivery Systems, Inc. is an LTL (less than truckload) carrier that is responsible for servicing the Northwest with 12 terminals throughout the states of Oregon, Washington, Idaho and Utah. Diamond Line Delivery Systems is known as a destination end carrier. We distribute freight to over 300 communities within our service area offering overnight service to and from all major cities in the Northwest. Diamond Line Delivery Systems goal is to become the carrier people think of when they need a reliable partner that delivers on time and damage free.

Diesel USA Group is a division of Jasper Holdings, Inc. and was acquired in May of 2019 as a distribution, service and repair company servicing air and fuel products for gas and diesel engines along with a variety of other complementary products. We have been in the air and fuel business as part of our diesel remanufacturing process since the late 1960s. Over the past several years, JASPER has focused more on this product line and recognizes opportunities with the increased use of turbochargers on passenger cars, light trucks, and SUVs.

Headquartered in Savannah, Georgia, Dixie Plywood Company ("DIXIEPLY") is one of the largest independent wholesale distributors of a broad line of building materials, including lumber, plywood, particleboard, oriented strand board, hardboard, engineered wood products, hardwood plywood, melamine, and specialty products for both dealer and industrial accounts.

Drake Cooper builds brands for the ambitious. Drake Cooper is inventive, Northwest rooted, full-service, and 100% Employee-Owned, with offices in Boise, Idaho, and Seattle Washington. They thrive on working with bold marketing organizations with great brand propositions that deserve more visibility and market share. They innovate and take brands to new heights by combining logic and data with emotion and creativity to earn the attention of consumers.

DMA, a proudly employee-owned company, has been partnering with many of North America’s largest companies since 1972 to solve their corporate tax challenges. Focusing on six key areas of corporate taxation – property tax, sales/use and commodity tax, state income and franchise tax, tax technology, crown royalties, and unclaimed property – DMA professionals assist companies with minimizing their taxes, enhancing the efficiency of their tax administration through industry-leading technology solutions, and managing their tax compliance obligations.

Dudek is a certified 100% employee-owned firm providing engineering and environmental consulting services. From planning, design, and permitting through construction, the company helps move projects forward through the complexities of regulatory compliance, budgetary and schedule constraints, and conflicting stakeholder interests. Dudek offers more than 50 services across nearly 20 practices to support projects across the United States.

Relationships built on honesty, an innovative team approach and excellence in meeting client service needs are the foundation of who we are at Durham and Bates. We are local brokers, providing a full range of risk management and insurance services to a widely diverse industry group. We know every client is unique and we are most effective when we have an opportunity to understand your specific needs, goals and challenges. Our valued clients appreciate that their best interests are our priority and most have been with us for many years. We are very proud of our culture and are committed to maintaining the trust that our clients have placed in us.

EEA Consulting Engineers is a full service mechanical, electrical and plumbing (MEP) consulting firm serving new and existing facilities in all market sectors. Founded in 1977 in Austin, Texas, as an energy conservation engineering consultant, EEA has since grown to offer MEP design, building commissioning, LEED consulting, as well as continuing its leadership in energy conservation.  

EEA has completed projects worldwide and is licensed in all 50 states and the District of Columbia. Headquartered in Austin, Texas, with a satellite office in Albuquerque, New Mexico, EEA became an Employee-Owned company in the spring of 2015.

Our engineers have extensive experience with energy analysis and design, which has grounded them in the fundamentals of mechanical and electrical engineering. The many years of working with clients in both new and existing occupied facilities has demonstrated the importance of reliability and flexibility in system design. These experiences have also given us the ability to quickly achieve appropriate solutions to technically challenging problems in fast-track design and design/build projects.

Starting in 1975, EMA focused on automation technology for water and wastewater utilities. Since then, EMA has added new services to meet their clients’ changing needs, including new practice areas and offices throughout the United States and Canada. EMA is proudly an employee-owned company who is invested in successful results for our clients. Today, EMA works with utilities and municipalities to improve business processes and work practices, enabled by technology and organizational change. They are able to deliver innovative solutions to help clients lower costs, increase productivity, improve customer service, and maximize return on investment.

ESL Power Systems is a 100% employee-owned Appliances, Electrical, and Electronics Manufacturer headquartered in Corona, California. The company was founded in 1995. Since it’s beginnings, ESL Power Systems has become a global leader in safety-interlocked power solutions for electrical equipment. 

ESL Power Systems became employee-owned in 2019 when the company implemented an Employee Stock Ownership Plan (ESOP). Employee ownership reinforces the company’s core values of accountability, adaptability, excellence in customer service, and continuous improvement. ESL Power Systems’ employee-owners take pride in both their work and company. 

We are a 100% employee owned, client-focused agency that is recognized as a trusted insurance advisor in our communities. We value long lasting relationships with our clients, built on a commitment to excellence, continual improvement and a high standard of customer service.

Eastern Shore Associates Insurance Agency was founded in 1986 when a group of three smaller independent agencies decided to pool their resources to better serve their customers. The focus was to develop "big agency" capabilities, while maintaining the "small agency" approach to conducting business by helping their neighbors. In 1991, ESA became an ESOP (Employee Stock Ownership Plan) company, having the employees own a portion of the company. In January, 2009, ESA became 100% proudly owned by its employees. This creates a culture of teamwork, accountability and communication throughout our agency.

Eastern Shore Associates Insurance Agency has grown into an organization with over 80 experienced employee owners operating from six locations throughout Central and Upstate New York. Our size allows for significantly greater access to insurance markets. We work with over 30 insurance companies, giving us the ability to offer the best solution to each of our customers' insurance needs.

EDM has been solving its customers’ engineering and manufacturing challenges for more than three decades. EDM approach is simple. Unlike many regional electronics manufacturing services (EMS) providers who focus predominately on manufacturing solutions, EDM has invested in both engineering expertise and assembly resources. As a result, EDM is able to integrate seamlessly with EDM customers’ product development during the design phase, filling gaps in their teams and/or making DFX recommendations. With existing production or legacy products, EDM has been able to offer unique custom automation or redesign recommendations to address customer cost, obsolescence or market competitiveness challenges, as well. EDM embrace the vision of EDM founder, Robert Roberts, who wanted to create a different kind of EMS company; one that truly cares about its customers and employees and operates on principles that drive the way EDM do business and treat each other. Today EDM are a 100% employee-owned company. Data has shown that employee-owned companies are more accountable to their customers, work faster and leaner, and have happier employers who serve customers in a better, smarter way than their competitors. EDM track record of customer retention confirms that! EDM has grown steadily since 1990. EDM maintain a strong financial position that allows us to provide the best possible terms to customers; have material stocking programs and finished goods Kanbans to support changing customer needs; and invest in equipment and people. EDM track record ensures that customers can trust that EDM have the resources to stand behind EDM commitments, the ingenuity to provide cost competitive, superior quality solutions, and the supply chain expertise to minimize their risk.

Elliott Machine offers a very diverse range of services with all the necessary tools equipment and employee experiences to provide for its customers in a thorough, accurate and timely manner to assure the highest quality for complete customer satisfaction. Elliott Machine versatility makes us one of the most capable machine shops, not just in the state of Georgia, the southeast, or nationally, but internationally as well.

As a leading 100% employee-owned company, Employee Owned Brands have been serving customers for more than 100 years. Headquartered in Fairfield, Iowa, with over 1200 employees, Employee Owned Brands and its predecessor, Dexter Apache Holdings, have a rich heritage of delivering high-quality, innovative products and services to our customers and business partners. Employee Owned Brands’ unique company culture empowers our employee owners, creating a highly efficient, service-oriented environment where excellence thrives.

Empowered Ventures buys closely held businesses with track records of success. Employees join their ESOP ownership program at no cost, accruing value over time based on the combined performance of all our companies. 

Empowered Ventures offers business owners a succession plan that leaves their life’s work in good hands – the employees. Their unique proposition meets owners’ financial and personal interests, making the bittersweet process of selling a little easier.

EnSafe was founded in June 1980 to advise industry and government in lte field of environmental science, safety, and regulatory compliance. The original founders, Phil Coop and Wendell Knight, were motivated by their strong desire in pursuing careers (then unavailable in the commercial sector) that intersected business, science and public policy related to environmental protection. Still going strong after four decades, EnSafe continues to succeed and grow from the original founders' ethics and vision.

Our mission is to leverage our technical expertise, core values and culture in discovering, developing and delivering innovative solutions that exceed our customers’ expectations.

With a presence in more than 20 locations, Epsilon Systems’ customers include the Department of Defense, Department of Energy, Department of Homeland Security and non-profit and commercial customers. Epsilon Systems provides total life cycle support to defense systems, such as basic research, concept development, system architecture, requirements definition and analysis, software development, integration and test, operational support, training, and maintenance and logistics.

Erickson Hall Construction Co. offers the depth and experience of a large national contractor, while providing the personal attention clients expect from a locally owned construction company. Erickson-Hall has been a recognized leader in the Southern California construction industry since 1998, with active projects in Orange, Los Angeles, Riverside, San Bernardino, Imperial and San Diego Counties. Landmark projects include the multiple award-winning Children’s Museum in Downtown San Diego.

Services:

• General Contracting
• Lease-Lease Back
• Construction Management
• Program Management
  
• Design-Build
• Pre-Construction
• Modernization
• Building Information Modeling (BIM)
• Integrated Project Delivery (IPD)

Experience:

• Essential Services Facilities
• Fire Stations
• Gymnasiums
• Healthcare Facilities
• Higher Education Facilities
• K-12 Educational Facilities
• Libraries
• Parks and Recreation
• Religious Facilities
• Modernization/Renovation

At Essential Ingredients, we partner with consumer brand companies and contract manufacturers to provide quality personal and home care ingredients quickly and reliably. The company's differentiator lies in their people and the service delivered while striving to fulfill their purpose of being a blessing to others.

Eutaw Construction Company, Inc., named for the strong Eutaw clay prevalent in Northeast Mississippi, was founded in 1980 by Thomas S. Elmore. As a Project Manager for Granite Construction Company, Tom moved to the area and oversaw the construction of the Aberdeen Lock and Dam built on the Tennessee-Tombigbee Waterway. After the project was complete, Tom settled in Aberdeen, Mississippi where he began Eutaw. Today Eutaw employs over 400 employees comprised of management, division personnel, field supervisors, foreman, operators, and skilled laborers. Since its founding in 1980, the Company’s heavy equipment fleet has grown to an approximate appraised value of $35 million. In 2012, Eutaw converted from a family owned and operated business to an ESOP (employee stock ownership plan). Today the company is led by President Tom Elmore, along with a Board of Directors and committees of employees from several departments with decades of knowledge and experience in all aspects of the company. Eutaw’s corporate headquarters is in Madison, Mississippi, and it has regional offices in Aberdeen, Mississippi (North Mississippi), Petal, Mississippi (South Mississippi), and Franklin, Tennessee (Nashville area). Eutaw has an active presence in the Mississippi Road Builders Association, the Tennessee Road Builders Association, the Associated Builders and Contractors (ABC), and the Associated General Contractors (AGC). Eutaw’s experience in the industry includes the construction of hundreds of miles of state and federal highways, bridge construction/repair, utility projects, large-scale site construction, airfield construction, and disaster relief. Eutaw is licensed or has performed work in Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi, North Carolina, Oklahoma, South Carolina, Tennessee, and Texas. Eutaw continues to grow throughout the southeast and has become an employer of choice in the construction industry. We strive to work safely, do business with integrity, and find pride in producing quality work and investing in our employee-owners.

Launched in 2009 as the initial leg of worker-owned Evergreen Cooperatives, Evergreen Cooperative Laundry is one of the few commercial laundry operators headquartered in the City of Cleveland. With more than 75 years of combined management experience in the laundry industry and a cost-effective, state-of-the-art facility with industry-leading green innovations, we offer clients in the hotel, hospital and nursing home industries consistent premium service at competitive rates.

Evergreen Cooperatives is a Cleveland-based network of employee-owned companies, including an industrial-scale ecologically advanced laundry, a large urban greenhouse, a renewable energy company, and a fund to pursue employee ownership conversions of existing businesses.

The Evergreen Cooperatives were launched in 2008 by a working group of Cleveland-based institutions, including the Cleveland Foundation, the Cleveland Clinic, University Hospitals, Case Western Reserve University, and the municipal government. Cleveland, a former industrial metropolis, had been wracked by deindustrialization and depopulation. The Evergreen initiative was part of a regional economic plan to link the community’s economic development with the purchasing power of anchor institutions to expand wealth building opportunities in low-income, high-unemployment communities.

The initiative’s strategy focuses on economic inclusion and building a local economy from the ground up, by catalyzing new employee-owned businesses. The approach is to first create the jobs, then recruit and train local residents to fill them. Furthermore, the Evergreen Cooperatives return a percentage of their profits to develop additional worker-owned firms and grow the local economy. The Cleveland Foundation’s President/CEO and Evergreen Board Chairman, Ronn Richard frames this succinctly: “Our goal is equitable wealth creation at scale.”

The Evergreen Cooperatives create quality jobs through employee ownership and democratic management, anchor these jobs and wealth in the local community, and keep money circulating, which is reversing long-term economic decline. Today, this success has developed a reputation as “The Cleveland Model,” proving that “networked employee-owned businesses can succeed in the market while generating meaningful social impact and much higher quality jobs.” Nationwide, other cities are replicating and adapting this innovative approach to economic development, green job creation, and neighborhood stabilization.

ExecuStay Midwest provides Corporate Housing and Relocation Solutions to individuals and business travelers.  We provide fully-furnished, luxury apartments to those who need temporary accommodations.

Exxel Pacific, Inc. was founded in 1989 by Sid Baron and Kevin DeVries, Chief Executive Officer and Chairman of the Board. Exxel Pacific grew out of the development activities of Exxel Development Group, an active multi-family and commercial development company in northwest Washington. Exxel Pacific began working with various long-term clients in providing a unique and comprehensive construction and development experience.

Originally founded as a janitorial business, FBG has grown to become a reliable, full-service commercial cleaning and facility services provider with national reach. That’s thanks in large part to founder Wayne Simmonds. His vision fueled FBG’s growth beyond its midwestern roots to include services throughout the United States.

In 1999, Terri Gogetap became president of FBG, the second generation of the Simmonds family to lead the company. Andy Peterson, took the helm as president in 2022. And today, the strength of family continues to drive FBG’s success and includes other families and individuals who are equally committed to the work we do every day.

FBG provides commercial cleaning and facility maintenance services to commercial, education, utilities, manufacturing and healthcare industries nationwide. 

The Design/Build experience with FCL Builders begins with the development of a project team consisting of the Owner/Customer, FCL Project Managers and an FCL Principal, Architects, Civil Engineers and Trade Contractors with vast project specific experience. From the moment you conceptualize your new project, FCL Builders is there with the right experience, the right tools, the right contacts and the right team to move your concept into development.

We have established a proven Design/Build method that ensures the customer’s needs and desires are completely understood and the customer is completely satisfied. FCL Builders consistently matches its internal team and external resources, including clients, architects, engineers and subcontractors, to ensure we deliver the highest-quality product every time. Not only do we hold our own employees accountable, we also regularly evaluate all subcontractors and suppliers to make sure they meet our standards for quality, reliability, ethics and professionalism. Every member of our team, at every level, is devoted to meeting our customer’s needs. Recognizing that teamwork depends on open communication, we have created a climate in which issues can be raised, openly discussed and jointly settled for successful outcomes.

Since 2002, the area’s finest architects, designers, contractors, and builders have depended on FDS Engineering for quality work and responsive service. Whether you are planning a small build-out or a large-scale new construction project, they have experts who are inspired to apply their experience and creativity on every project. Their Service does not end at the design phase, they are with you all the way through the completion of construction.

FEI, Inc. began operation in 1978 in a closed gas station on the west end of Valley City, North Dakota. It started selling fertilizer and chemical application and handling equipment and parts to the agriculture industry. In 1981 the current location was constructed. In 1987 we began providing a full line of propane equipment, hearth products, and propane parts to propane dealers.

Our corporate office is located in Valley City, North Dakota with branch locations in Billings, Montana; Hastings, Nebraska; and Yakima, Washington. These four facilities serve customers in 20 states and four Canadian provinces. Whether it is an urgent service or technical call or delivery of a repair part, we always work to exceed our customers expectation.

FEI, Inc. entered into an Employee Stock Ownership Plan (ESOP) in October 2006. That means that day to day business is conducted by employee owners. These owners go the extra mile to take care of our customers, helping them make a profit, and encouraging return business which enables our company to grow and prosper.

FST is an employee-owned third-partylogistics company based in Columbus, Ohio. For the past 30 years, FST hasspecialized in temperature-controlled warehousing, transportation, andbrokerage services.

Fargo Glass and Paint Co. are a distributor of glass, mirrors, paint (and related accessories), floor covering specialty items, windows, doors, and siding.  Their contract glass division offers customers the experience, products, and personnel to install everything from high-rise curtain walls, storefronts, automatic doors & service, and the supply of door hardware. Their glass department also sells and installs a wide variety of shower enclosures. Fargo Glass and Paint Company have been a Benjamin Moore distributor since 1917!

Since 1967, Farris Engineering has provided mechanical, electrical, plumbing, lighting, life safety, technology and commissioning services to clients throughout the Midwest.

Other firm services include fire protection, lighting design, technology and commissioning. Project categories include healthcare, higher education, K-12, military, industrial and commercial. 

Farris Engineering’s mechanical and electrical professionals listen to client needs and focus on cost, safety, reliability and impact. The result: Engineering excellence.

Farris Engineering has offices in Omaha, NE, Lincoln, NE, Sidney, NE and Colorado Springs, CO. 

Fireclay Tile is changing the face of tile, from the sustainable ways that we make our product using recycled content and local manufacturing to how we engage and sell to customers. We are intensely focused on building a brand and ensuring that all of our customers have the best experience possible when buying tile. Simply, we want to make tile easy, and we want to sell the highest quality products in the most user friendly way.

We make each and every piece of tile by hand for your project. We offer free design services for homeowners, a program for residential trade professionals, and dedicated commercial support for large projects.

It all began with Fireclay Founder Paul Burns, who got his start as an apprentice to his uncle at the age of 10, carrying on a family tradition that dates back to the 1920s. With a knack for the trade, a mind for science, and a passion for conservation, Paul set out on his own and made Fireclay Tile in 1986.

Since then, Fireclay has been reinventing, redefining, and radicalizing the industry. As the first tile company to be certified as a Benefit Corporation, we are proud to continue standing on our founding principals. We do this by committing to using sustainable manufacturing practices, using recycled materials, and taking care of our employees—all the while putting you, the customer, first.

For us, making tile is about more than just playing with color. It’s about the earth. We dig our hands into the dirt and feel a connection to the past, to our history, and to our need for shelter. Clay is one of the oldest building materials known to man, yet somehow, it continues to surprise us every day.

We may have caught tile up to the 21st century, but the heart and soul of Fireclay remains the same. We work directly with you because at the end of the day, you’re the thing that keeps us going. We still make every ceramic tile to order at our Aromas factory, nestled in the middle of California’s agricultural heartland, right where it all began.

Founded in 2000, Firstar Precision Corp. is a full-service precision machining company located in Brunswick, OH. Firstar manufactures tight tolerance components for the medical, aerospace, food processing, industrial assembly and hydraulics industries. With its highly trained team of engineers and machinists, state of the art equipment, and quality department certified to ISO 9001:2015, Firstar manufactures even the most complex parts economically and reliably, enabling it to be a value-added partner and solution provider to its customers.

The employee-owners at Fishman have strived to become your trusted one-stop resource for flooring and flooring installation tools, supplies and solutions. The Fishman Promise: to "delight" our customers with every product, service & solution we provide.

Started in 1974, Florida Forklift was founded on simple yet important core principles. Treat customers with respect, provide excellent customer service, and create relationships through integrity and consistency.

With almost 50 years of experience, we have become the company which others rely on for their success. As one of Florida’s largest forklift dealers, we have 5 locations throughout the state which enable us to service all of our customer’s needs. We have branches in Tampa, Winter Haven, Orlando, Jacksonville, and Fort Myers, as well as Atlanta and Savannah, Georgia. 

Florida Forklift offers new & used forklifts, equipment rentals, parts, service and material handling equipment.

Our Mission

The mission of Flow Tech, Inc. is to help people connect to the built environment by sustainably improving comfort and safety.

Our Vision

To be the premier, full-service manufacturer's representative for applied and engineered products and systems for HVAC and municipal water and wastewater markets.

What We Do

Flow Tech offers competitive, energy-efficient and quality-focused products, systems and services. They excel in large commercial and institutional type markets including healthcare, higher education, K-12 schools, pharmaceutical, office buildings and water/wastewater.

Customer Service

We differentiate ourselves with our customers by satisfying their unmet and unarticulated needs, providing exceptional service and fostering creative and innovative solutions.

Company Culture

To achieve these objectives, we embody an inclusive company culture that rewards hard work, focuses on open communication and teamwork, while acting with integrity. We are a proud 100% employee owned corporation, ensuring that everyone who contributes to the success of the company shares in the reward through earned stock in the firm.

Forum One has deep and wide-reaching digital expertise that they use to identify the best solutions for organizations. They help their clients think about long-term digital transformation through an inclusive human-centered lens to move their missions forward.

Founded in Northern California in 1971 we now consist of two wholly-owned construction teams: Foundation Constructors, Inc., services Northern California, Northern Nevada, and Utah while Foundation Pile, Inc. handles Southern California, Southern Nevada, and Arizona. In business for over fifty years, Foundation provides clients unparalleled expertise on complex, and intricate projects of all sizes. Their field crews, foremen, superintendents, and owners make up a cohesive management team that brings many years of pile driving experience to every job.

A purveyor of fine home building goods and dedicated customer service. Our locations offer in-stock material for everything from framing (lumber) to finish (cabinets, carpet, and such) with a healthy dose of industry knowledge and genuinely helpful service. We are a professional construction supplier, from start to finish. 

Franklin Building Supply was founded as a lumberyard in Boise, Idaho in 1976.  All these years later, Franklin remains one of the few locally owned, and the only employee owned, building supply company in the area. With twelve full-service lumberyards, six door shops, two truss plants and five beautiful design centers, we have unmatched reach and expertise.

Our local ownership allows us to be nimble and make our decisions with our customers needs being the top priority. Our ability to get what you need delivered when you need it, at a competitive price, is second to none. 

Furniture Options provides high quality rental furniture to people in transition.  Our customers need temporary furnishings for a variety of reasons: business relocation, disaster relocation, students, interns and more.

G.W. Lisk Company is a global leader in the design and manufacture of engineered solutions, including solenoids, solenoid valves, linear and rotary position sensors, motors, electric actuators and flame arrestors. The company serves hundreds of customers in diverse markets throughout the world with market-leading solutions enabled by extensive design, test and manufacturing capabilities. 

G.W. Lisk Company has manufacturing facilities in the United States, Ireland, and China, as well as an additional sales office in the UK.

GEOKON is a 100% employee-owned manufacturer of geotechnical and structural health monitoring instrumentation and is headquartered in Lebanon, New Hampshire. The company was founded in 1979 by Barrie Sellers. 

GEOKON became employee-owned in 2022 when they implemented an Employee Stock Ownership Plan (ESOP). Employee-ownership reinforces the company's commitment to quality, responsive customer service and industry-leading designs.

GSL performs on a diverse range of project types for both public and private clients—including commercial, industrial, institutional, manufacturing, site utility, and power line-substation projects. GSL Electric’s expertise in pre-construction, value engineering, design-assist, and design-build services has led us to successfully establish our unique and diverse project portfolio. GSL also utilizes prefabrication, voice/data, and low voltage systems expertise—along with the ability to deliver a full turnkey solution to a very broad customer base—in renovation, tenant finish, utility and new construction projects.

We Are A Company Of Gardeners. Rooted in Vermont and 100 percent employee-owned. GARDENER'S Supply was founded in 1983 by a handful of enthusiastic Vermont gardeners. Today, we serve millions of gardeners nationwide, offering everything from seed starting supplies and garden furniture to flower supports and garden carts. Though our company has grown, we remain passionately committed to providing garden-tested, earth-friendly products that will help our customers have more fun and success in their gardens. Gardener's Supply is proud to be employee-owned. We are gardeners ourselves and have earned our customers' trust by providing high-quality products, expert information and friendly, personalized service. We understand the products that we sell because we use them in our own gardens. Regular product training sessions and a gardening certification program for our staff help us to provide the best service and support in the business. At our headquarters in Burlington, VT, you can check out our store and stroll through our 3-acre display gardens. We also offer local seminars and special events throughout the year.

Generator & Power Systems LLC (“GPS”) traces its roots back to post-WWII Hawaii where, in 1946, one of Hawaii’s oldest and largest electrical contractors was founded. Over the years several motor/generator rewind & electro-mechanical repair shops were aquired. By 2003, being the largest electrical apparatus repair firm in the State, Generac approached our organization to provide warranty service for their product sales into Hawaii. By 2016 this relationship had proved so mutually beneficial that Generator & Power Systems was formed to become Hawaii’s only Generac Industrial Products dealer. Their deep roots in highly technical electro-mechanical and electrical systems gives them an extraordinary degree of expertise to help their clients find the very best solution for their power needs, including new installations, retrofits, or maintenance & repair. GPS LLC has over 70+ years of serving Hawaii’s critical infrastructure needs.

Gibson Insurance Agency, Inc. was founded nearly 100 years ago. And since day one, the company has been driven by their relationships with clients, employees, and the community. Gibson's first office in Plymouth, Indiana was opened in 1933, and as the company's reach grew, so did the Gibson team. Today, Gibson serves both local and national clients from five Midwestern and Southwestern offices. Gibson started as a family business, grew to include employee stockholders, and in 2011, became an ESOP – employee-owned. 

Giroux Glass Incorporated, a 100% employee-owned glass, glazing, and architectural metals contracting company, operates branches in Los Angeles, San Bernardino, Las Vegas, Fresno, and Phoenix.

We hire Union-certified glaziers to cater to the needs of the commercial, retail, and luxury residential sectors. Since 1946, Giroux Glass has been recognized for our integrity and high-quality performance, exceeding client expectations and defying engineering challenges to complete the industry’s most demanding glazing projects.

It is this dedication to exceptional service and accountability that has allowed our company to grow from its humble beginnings as a small, family-owned operation to the highly respected and nationally-recognized industry leader it is today.

As of 2017, Giroux Glass became 100% employee owned.  Our Employee Stock Ownership Plan (ESOP) has been an unqualified success, offering our valued employees the chance to take full ownership of their work and reap the personal rewards for a jobs well done.

Glenn Burdette is the leading certified public accounting firm on California’s beautiful Central Coast. While our roots go back to 1965, we are always thinking ahead.

We are comprised of more than 50 certified professionals and over 90 total employees, serving clients from four offices in Santa Maria, San Luis Obispo and Paso Robles. We are small enough to offer highly personalized service, but also large enough to offer unmatched versatility and expertise.

We foster an environment where hard work and client service are rewarded. In 2000, Glenn Burdette became the first CPA firm in California to become employee owned, developing an authentic investment in the professional development and personal success of our team. We believe that happy employees make the most satisfied clients.

When Anne St. Peter and Douglas Bell started Global Prairie in 2008, they had a clear vision: to be a business that would make a positive impact in the world, where purpose would be as important as profit. In the years since, this strategic consulting and marketing firm has stayed true to that original purpose, becoming a leader in the corporate movement that believes business should be a force for good in the world. Today, Global Prairie is proud to be an award-winning certified Benefit Corporation (B Corp), a Public Benefit Corporation, and one hundred percent employee owned.

Working with clients ranging from start-ups to Fortune 100 multinationals to nonprofit organizations and government agencies, Global Prairie helps clients define and activate their purpose – why they exist – to maximize shared value for the organization, their customers, the community, and the world. As a hybrid strategic consulting and creative agency, services range from positioning and strategic planning to in-market activations of all kinds, including design and digital. Everything the Global Prairie team does is powered by data-driven insight, leveraging a variety of tools and techniques including their own proprietary approach, Datafarm, to ensure all strategic recommendations and creative solutions are grounded in insight.

The firm works largely in the sustainability, energy/environment, healthcare, food/agriculture, education and philanthropy sectors. Global Prairie is proud to have partnered with their clients to put purpose in the center of their business strategy and in return, yield more significant bottom-line results, impact and growth. Along the way, Global Prairie has grown from two offices in Kansas City and Cleveland to more than 125 employees in nine offices in the United States and Europe. 

Global Prairie is also proud of their own community impact. Since day one, the firm has returned at least 10 percent of its profits to the communities where its employee-owners live and work, totaling more than $12 million to civic, educational and charitable organizations. Every Global Prairie team member volunteers nearly three weeks of paid time annually to organizations of their choice. During the last dozen years, Global Prairie employee-owners have served on more than 300 nonprofit boards and positively impacted nearly 700 charitable organizations. Because of their positive impact in the community and the way the firm treats their employee-owners, Global Prairie ranks among the top 10 percent of B Corps worldwide. The United Nations and the World Health Organization have also named Global Prairie as one of the world’s healthiest employers. 

In short, Global Prairie was founded on the idea that making a profit is not the end goal, but rather the means to making an impact. And that the success of a business isn’t so much about what you get, but what you give. It is in this spirit that the firm has become a force for good for their employee-owners, their clients and their community.

CAPABILTIES

• Advertising: integrated campaign planning, and execution
• Branding: Brand development, strategy and design
• Data Analytics: Gathering, structuring, and analyzing big data
• Digital Strategy & Design: UX, SEO, and creative execution
• Health Communications: KOL strategy, advisory boards, and medical writing
• Marketing Consulting: Business and multi-channel engagement strategy
• Public Affairs: Stakeholder engagement and issues management
• Social Media: Strategy, management, and measurement
• Technology & Innovation: Thought leadership and applied solutions

Global Recovery Corp was founded in 2013 and is located in Springfield, MO. They are a diesel engine and part supplier for the agricultural, highway trucking, industrial and automotive sectors. GRC works with original equipment manufacturers to help maximize their return on aging and obsolete parts and core inventories. This allows them to offer original equipment from John Deere, CNH, AGCO, Caterpillar, Cummins, Detroit, International, Volvo, Iveco, Yanmar and others at very low prices.

Since their founding, Goelzer Investment Management has been assisting private clients, families and institutional investors in meeting their unique financial and investment objectives. Today, they provide investment advisory, consulting, and asset management services to over 550 clients, with approximately $2.2 billion in total assets under advisement in 35 states and Europe.

In 1966, Grace Manufacturing was founded as a machine, tool and die shop. At that time, the company’s name was Grace Engineering. We provided the machine tool and computer peripheral industries with cost effective solutions to critical parts machining problems. This experience in the production of precision parts has served us well in the years that followed.

In early 1978, after extensive research and development, we began producing photochemical machined precision parts for the computer peripheral market. In 1988, electromechanical assembly operations were added Production wire EDM came along in 1992, followed by expansion of the metal stamping operation. We purchased our first Amada Co2 laser cutting system in 1999.  In the 2000’s many new technologies have been added, including:  Heat treating, injection molding, and clean room packaging.

Today, Grace Manufacturing serves the needs of many industries with precision metal parts via several different processes or even a combination of processes.

During the past three decades, Grace’s precision parts program has evolved into one of the finest in the industry. Our highly trained personnel have the unique talent of applying their experience to the exploration of new technologies and production techniques. Their eagerness and technical know-how has contributed greatly to solving the problems related to mass production of high precision parts, while continually seeking and exploring improved results through innovative manufacturing techniques.

Graham Company is committed to providing high quality insurance products and services to our clients. Every day, we exceed our clients’ expectations by putting their interests above our own. We believe in training and empowering employees who are intelligent, hard-working problem solvers to ensure that our services are of the highest possible standard. We are devoted to growing a dynamic, profitable and privately-owned company with an entrepreneurial spirit and a dedication to the well-being and happiness of our employees.

At Graham Company, we understand that insurance is not something sold and put on a shelf. Through our 50 years of experience, we have become experts in creating programs that address our clients’ specific business needs. We provide a full spectrum of products including Property & Casualty, Employee Benefits, Surety, Personal Lines, and more for an elite client base. We understand that for our clients, it’s not just about protecting your livelihood – it’s about protecting your legacy.

Graham Company became 100 percent employee-owned through an employee stock ownership plan in February 2017. Bill and the executive leadership team decided to make a smart investment in what makes us different – our people – to ensure that we are able to operate in perpetuity under the values that have served our clients so well for more than half a century.

Greenville Tool & Die (GTD) is a 100% employee-owned metal production company headquartered in Greenville, Michigan. The company was founded in 1946 by Charles J. Randall and Vandel Nielse. Greenville Tool & Die designs and builds high quality sheet metal stamping dies offering production manufacturers turnkey solutions to meet the demands of today’s complex parts and advanced high strength materials. 

GTD became employee-owned in 2005 when the company implemented an Employee Stock Ownership Plan (ESOP). Employee ownership has enabled GTD’s employees to adapt to and the company to grow, prosper, and become a leader in its field.

As one of California’s earliest general contractors, Griffith Company is proud to have contributed our capabilities, resources and engineering expertise to help our region grow. Since our inception over a century ago, we have maintained a reputation as a full-service contractor, dedicated to delivering on our promises. Our responsiveness,industry-leading project management, and specialized crews allow us to successfully complete a diverse list of projects, for a growing list of agencies and owners — on time and on budget.

In 1981, Griffith Company initiated its transition to an Employee Stock Ownership Plan (ESOP) Corporation. 2002 marks the year that our company became 100% employee-owned. Every employee/owner remains personally invested in maintaining the quality of our work. Together, we continue to uphold our company’s guiding principles, collectively known as the Griffith Way: Honesty, integrity and a commitment to deliver on our promises. This is what allows us to consistently meet our obligations to owners, agencies, employees, subcontractors, suppliers and shareholders alike — without compromising fairness or quality that have become synonymous with the Griffith name.

As the construction industry evolves, new technologies, challenges and opportunities emerge. Griffith Company continues to respond to these changes with flexibility, responsiveness and adaptability. We were one of the first Southern California-based general contractors to develop a systematic project-management process, allowing us to efficiently manage the multiple components of today’s complex projects. This process has earned Griffith Company a number of prestigious industry awards and recognition. Simultaneously, we developed a partnering program that enables us to effectively coordinate with multiple owners and agencies often involved in modern projects.

Gripple is the market leader of wire joiners and tensioners and wire-rope hangers, designed to suit a whole range of applications across the agricultural and construction markets.

We are market-leading producers of wire joiners & tensioners, & wire rope suspension systems, servicing the following markets: Building Services, Viticulture, Orchards & Fencing, Seismic Bracing & Blast Protection, and Civil Construction. 

Guttman Holdings is a wholesale, commercial, industrial, and retail customers with business in 18  states.  The company offers customized fueling solutions to these customers backed by our extensive experience and market intelligence.  Source One Transportation is the company's logistics company that provides safe and efficient deliveries of the petroleum products we sell.  Guttman Renewables markets renewable energy such as ethanol and biodiesel, along with Carbon Offsets that help our customers achieve their ESG goals and Carbon Neutrality. Through Certified EO’s certification process, Guttman Holdings is a verified, employee-owned business since 2022.

As a regional “Specialty Foods Distribution Company”, operating in a 250 mile radius of Amarillo, Texas, our focus continues to be on ‘center of the plate’ proteins: beef, pork, and poultry. H&R Foods also procures and distributes the many foodservice products that accompany these ‘center of the plate’ items: bakery goods, canned fruits and vegetables, cheeses, dairy products, paper and janitorial, non foods items and disposables, as well as frozen foods. Our customer base consists of: independent restaurants, supermarkets, school systems, bakeries, in – plant feeding operations, and further meat processors. We provide consistent, quality product in a competitive environment; utilizing our knowledge of ever changing markets and efficient, reliable distribution to achieve our ultimate goal of customer service that is second to none! As consolidation continues in the food distribution arena, the options for competitive purchasing will continue to be an issue. Please consider H&R Foods, L. P. as a reliable distribution company that truly cares about your success.

H2I Group, Inc. offers design, installation and service for athletic, laboratory, flooring, storage and technology education products. For more than 90 years, H2I Group, Inc. has been a leading resource for products and services used in education, healthcare, industrial, government, and corporate markets. We are your one source for total facility solutions.

HAC, Inc. is a regional operator of supermarkets, pharmacies, fuel centers and convenience stores. The company is headquartered in Oklahoma City, OK. HAC’s mission is to operate the best grocery stores by providing exceptional customer service, clean and friendly stores, strong perishable departments, competitive prices, continuous involvement of technology to better assist in managing pricing, and on-going training and development of associates. As of 2021 HAC operates 80 grocery stores in Oklahoma, Texas, Kansas, and Georgia. HAC operates under multiple banners including Food World, Piggly Wiggly, United, Cash Saver and Homeland. Homeland is HAC’s largest banner as well as Oklahoma’s largest locally-owned grocery store chain with 36 locations statewide.

HAC has been 100% employee-owned since 2011. Since Homeland’s humble beginnings, their values have always shown through. Homeland traces their roots as a company back to 1916. After over 102 years of service, their values remain unchanged.

HB Global is a near-100% employee-owned company based in Harrisburg, PA that provides HVAC, plumbing, and electrical services. HB Global has pursued an aggressive acquisition strategy — which has driven nearly eightfold growth in revenue since the company started its Employee Stock Ownership Plan (ESOP) in 2010 — while making considerable investments in its growing workforce of employee-owners.

Herbert Bassett McClure founded HB McClure in 1914, and in 1931 the company established its headquarters in Harrisburg. A year later, two inventors pioneered an individual room air conditioner that could sit on a window ledge, and HB McClure soon after entered the air conditioning business. By the 1980s, the company had expanded to commercial HVAC services.

In 2008, with the Great Recession looming, Bob Whalen took over as the company’s new owner from its third generation of family ownership and became President and CEO. Soon after becoming the new owner, Whalen identified ESOPs as an effective tax-advantaged strategy to ensure the company’s long-term stability. After gaining the support of the board of directors, he sold the company back to the employees in 2010 in the ESOP transaction.

The company then embarked on a growth strategy that included 19 acquisitions between 2011 and 2020, and it established HB Global, LLC in 2017 as the holding company for the new divisions.

“When we started the ESOP, we were all within about 45 miles of Harrisburg,” Whalen said in a recent interview. “Today we have eight divisions spanning nine states and the U.S. Virgin Islands. We are now doing work across the Southeast, Mid-Atlantic, and New England regions as well as Arizona.”

Acquisitions have helped the company diversify its clients across industries, including large contracts with government, life sciences, healthcare, and convention centers. Between 2010 and 2020, the company’s revenue surged from $25 million to $275 million, and it plans to become a perennial billion-dollar company within the next decade.

But acquisitions of existing companies have not meant cutting staff. “A big part of what private equity does is they find synergies, which is code for reducing headcount. We do none of that,” Whalen said. “Our strategy is to grow these businesses and create value for our employee-owners, it’s not to shrink them.”

HB Global employs over 1,700 individuals, most of whom are now employee-owners who become eligible after one year of service. Since it created the ESOP, the company has generated over $87 million in retirement savings for employee-owners. For the average field technician who has been with the company since it became employee-owned a decade ago, their ESOP account has generated more than $203,000 in retirement savings, driven in part by the company’s 12% contribution of annual compensation to ESOP accounts. (The current average U.S. net worth at retirement age is $213,000.) Whalen has a strong belief that every business has an obligation to build wealth for their employees through retirement savings, with employees at all levels sharing in the success or failure of the company.

“Our intent is for this structure to go on for multiple generations and to continue to thrive,” Whalen said. “That doesn’t happen in three years or five years. It certainly doesn’t happen on a quarterly basis. Everything we’re doing is really a multi-generational project.”

Born out of the desire to focus on exceptionally serving nearby neighborhoods and communities in Central Pennsylvania (Harrisburg, Carlisle, Hershey, and York) and Northern Maryland (Baltimore, Carroll, and Howard Counties). Since 1914, HB Home Service Team has helped its customers stay warm in the winter and cool in the summer. Today, over 300 blue and gold trucks travel our region every day to see that your comfort is assured.

Born out of the desire to focus on exceptionally serving nearby neighborhoods and communities in Central Pennsylvania (Harrisburg, Carlisle, Hershey, and York) and Northern Maryland (Baltimore, Carroll, and Howard Counties). Since 1914, HB Home Service Team has helped its customers stay warm in the winter and cool in the summer. Today, over 300 blue and gold trucks travel our region every day to see that your comfort is assured.

Founded with the purpose of anticipating community needs, HMC aims to create designs that have a positive impact, now and into the future. The primary focus on opportunities to have the most direct contribution to communities–through healthcare, education, and civic spaces.

Habitat Restoration Sciences, Inc. (HRS) is a full-service native habitat restoration landscaping and general engineering firm specializing in installation and long-term maintenance of natural areas. HRS strives to provide clients with the highest value of habitat restoration services available and have developed an exceptionally experienced team to execute cost-effective solutions for your habitat restoration projects.

With 20 years of successful restoration projects, including wetland and upland habitat creation, rare plant species transplantations, saltwater and fresh water marsh restoration, brush management and preserve management, HRS's experienced staff are dedicated to understanding your project and implementing a strategy for success.

HRS is a Dudek company. Dudek has provided its clients with environmental, permitting, planning, engineering, construction and operational services since 1980. HRS crews team with Dudek biologists, landscape architects and habitat restoration designers, engineers and hydrogeologists to provide a turn-key solution to native habitat restoration.