If you are starting up a co-operative, employee-owned business or social enterprise, Industrial Common Ownership Finance (ICOF) can offer loans of between £5,000 and £50,000.

Starting in October 1980, the name of the publication changed to The Washington Blade and the corporation re-incorporated as a for-profit, employee-owned business.

Companies such as Next are far more profitable than John Lewis but a report by academics at the Cass business school found that employee-owned businesses had a higher rate of sales growth and job creation during the recession than companies in conventional ownership.

Co-operative and Community Finance offers loans for employee-owned businesses.

In the British context, social enterprises include community enterprises, credit unions, trading arms of charities, employee-owned businesses, co-operatives, development trusts, housing associations, social firms, and leisure trusts.

Prior to his academic career, he was legal counsel to the ICA Group in Boston, engaged nationally in economic and job development efforts with a focus on employee-owned businesses.

As Britain's largest employee-owned business, we believe that employee ownership has the potential to empower front-line workers to achieve a high level of customer service.

Maryland Brush Company, located at 3221 Frederick Avenue in the Gwynn's Falls neighborhood, has been an employee-owned business since 1990.

The trust could subsidize affordable housing, offer employment training, help develop employee-owned businesses or match families' savings for home purchases, education and business financing.

Alvarado Street Bakery began in 1977 as a part of an employee-owned non-profit business called the Red Clover Worker's Brigade, an umbrella organization for several naturals foods businesses in the San Francisco Bay Area.