EOA 40 Archive, Spring

40 EOA Facts

• The EOA was founded in 1979
• John Lewis Partnership’s first move to employee ownership pre-dated the EOA by 50 years
• Trustee member Arup become employee owned in 1977
• Tullis Russell and Baxi heaters (Baxendale) were two of the first to convert to employee ownership with support from JOL
• The EOA Conference was launched in 2005
• In 2006 the first public service mutual EOA member CSH Surrey was created under the leadership Jo Pritchard
• A mutuals programme was established in 2011 and reignited in 2018
• Actions from the Nuttall Review 2012, led by EOA member Graeme Nuttall OBE of Fieldfisher, have helped to grow the sector.
• The first Employee Ownership Trust (EOT) was established in 2014 – there are now about 250
• The most comprehensive research into employee ownership was published in the report the Ownership Dividend in 2018

40 voices of EOA