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An Employee Stock Ownership Plan (ESOP) can be a powerful tool for family businesses looking to ensure a smooth transition of ownership, strengthen employee loyalty, and preserve the family legacy. ESOPs foster growth by incentivizing employees, preserving the family legacy by keeping ownership within the company, and helping ease family transitions by offering an organized method for ownership change. While it provides tax advantages and facilitates succession planning, it r

Your family business is more than a company—it’s your legacy. In this talk, we’ll explore how protecting your brand legally is one of the most powerful ways to safeguard everything you’ve built for the next generation. Whether your name is on the product or you’ve grown a reputation through quality and service, your brand is one of your most valuable assets—and also one of the most vulnerable. Richard Rimer will introduce the foundational tools of brand protection, including

The Roots & Legacies webinar features Marie Davis of the Georgia Center for Employee Ownership (GACEO) discussing the critical topic of employee engagement in family businesses and its profound impact on organizational success. Marie is joined by Woodstock Furniture and Mattress Outlet founder JR Aaron and his son Brian Aaron as they share how coming alongside their employees led to an employee stock ownership plan (ESOP). Whether you are a small family business with only a f