The July 29, 2010 Employee Ownership Update is online and discusses the following:

While his associates have increasingly used their weekly huddles to educate themselves on what's involved in the company ESOP, Rob also created what we at SRC call an "ownership culture committee," a team made up of four associates from different levels within the company. The goal of the committee is to serve as an intermediary between management and the associates on the plant floor. To help in that effort, all of the members will receive additional training from our team back in Springfield. And one of their first tasks will be to read through the comments their co-workers made during the survey and find ways to make improvements based on those comments.

Determining Your Company's Value: Multiples and Rules of Thumb discusses using multiples such as EBITDA or seller's discretionary earnings to determine a starting point for determining the value of your company:

President Obama has just signed into law the Financial-Regulation Bill that he says will "create the strongest financial protections for consumers in history".

The July 15, 2010 Employee Ownership Update is online and discusses the following:

Success Stories: Providing Employees Stability in Unstable Times is a profile of ESOP Company and 2010 Top Small Company Workplace Van Meter Industrial. The article discusses the company's five core values of Place, People, Provider, Continuous Improvement, and Profit:

Due to the unique complexities of individually designed ESOP plan documents, the IRS created a group of ESOP specialists that has become known as the "ESOP Cadre" to review all ESOP determination letter requests. Beginning with Cycle B submissions (January 31, 2008), the IRS began holding approval and ceased issuing favorable determination letters while they awaited further guidance.

The June 30, 2010 Employee Ownership Update is online and discusses the following:

Pro-Employee Ownership Proposals Pending on Senate Floor announces that Sen. Bernard Sanders [I-VT], Patrick Leahy [D-VT], and Sherrod Brown [D-OH] have filed "pro-employee" amendments to H.R. 5297: Small Business Lending Fund Act of 2010: