In part I, the founder of Mainely Tubs discusses why he converted his business to an employee-stock-ownership plan. https://media.blubrry.com/thesparetailerpodcast/content.blubrry.com/thesparetailerpodcast/15-JimVanFleet-Pt-1.mp3Subscribe: Apple Podcasts...
In honor of our ESOP feature in the April/May 2024 issue of SpaRetailer, we revisit an old podcast with Jim...
Random Thursday night dinners are how ESOPs happen. At least, that’s what Vince Wuebker, owner of HotSpring Spas & Pool Tables 2, will tell you.
Tom Tritt and Brett Huston were doing electrical work as a side gig for a local swimming pool company when the owner asked if they’d be interested in buying the business. Along with their wives, twin sisters Rene Huston and Adrianne Morgan, the couples decided to go for it. Twenty years later, in May, they converted Patio Pleasures Pools & Spas to an employee stock ownership plan.
Patio Pleasures, a pool, hot tub and outdoor furnishings retailer, pool builder and service company based in Madison, Wisconsin, announced its transition to an employee stock ownership plan.
In 1997 Haviland Enterprises began its employee stock ownership program. “Our company is one of the best examples of an...
Many founding members of manufacturing companies and retail stores are not only alive and well but actively participating in those same businesses. However, no one can work or live forever.
It was humble beginnings in 1980. Just three farmers in Dallas, Oregon, building hot tubs in a barn. Five years...
In honor of our ESOP feature in the April/May 2024 issue of SpaRetailer, we revisit an old podcast with Jim...
Grand Rapids, Michigan-based water treatment product manufacturer Haviland Enterprises Inc., is attributing its recent record-breaking success to being an employee-owned...
Patio Pleasures in Madison, Wisconsin, is the latest hot tub retailer to convert to an employee stock ownership plan. One...