Hi-fi & TV store Richer Sounds moves to employee ownership.
Looks like it's an employee stock ownership plan rather than a co-op model so the headline about 'handing over control' seems a bit wrong? Not an expert, any coop gurus know the details?
https://www.theguardian.com/business/2019/may/14/richer-sounds-staff-julian-richer
@neil Neither; #ESOP is a creature of US retirement law, whereas an #EmployeeOwnershipTrust (#EOT) is a common form of EO in the UK, and has just started to see occasional use in the US in the last few years: https://medium.com/fifty-by-fifty/the-british-are-coming-esops-and-perpetual-trusts-c1d4cf45ba61