The Employee Share Ownership Centre
Extract from newspad April 2013:
The House of Lords delivered a hammer blow to Chancellor George Osborne’s controversial ‘Shares for Rights’ scheme by voting it down. By a solid majority of 232 votes to 178, their Lordships voted to remove it from the Government’s Growth & Infrastructure Bill.
The vote, which came almost immediately [...]
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Centre chairman Malcolm Hurlston, who is founder and president of StepChange Debt Charity (formerly the Consumer Credit Counselling Service), has been awarded a CBE by her Majesty the Queen in the New Year Honours 2013 List.
Malcolm’s citation from the Palace states: “Malcolm Hurlston, Commander of the Order of the British Empire, [...]
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Centre chairman calls for a Million Option Year
ESOP Centre chairman, Malcolm Hurlston, called for a Million Option Year on hearing the news that the Company Share Option Plan will be retained as a tax advantaged employee share scheme. The CSOP, which had been subject to review following the Office of Tax [...]
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Business Minister Jo Swinson with Awards winners Shell and their advisers. From left to right: Iain Wilson and Frances Mancktelow, Computershare; Jo Swinson; Pam Roffe, Shell; Martyn Drake, Computershare. For more awards pictures in high resolution, please contact us.
Business Minister Jo Swinson presented Royal Dutch Shell with the ESOP Centre Award for [...]
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At the Liberal Democrat annual September conference delegates voted for employee share ownership to become part of their official party policy, by overwhelmingly approving a motion demanding a big increase in the number of UK employees who benefit from employee share schemes.
The ESOP Centre is playing an important role in shifting [...]
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Welcoming Graeme Nuttall’s report on Employee Ownership at the Deputy Prime Minister’s summit on employee ownership on July 4 where the paper was launched, ESOP Centre chairman, Malcolm Hurlston said: “Graeme has done an excellent job in pinning down some of the barriers to wider employee ownership and has suggested sensible and practical solutions to [...]
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Centre chairman Malcolm Hurlston is the new holder of the prestigious Remy Schlumberger Award for extraordinary achievement and commitment to the principles of financial participation and financial education for employees in the UK, the EU and globally.
The Award was made to Mr Hurlston in Paris by David Hildebrandt, immediate past president of the Continue Reading →
The ‘Shareholder Spring‘ has stirred up turmoil in boardrooms across the UK, leaving a string of unanswered questions. Chairman Malcolm Hurlston will discuss them in his introductory speech at the Centre’s 24th European conference in Paris [...]
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Public services may represent the next great opportunity for the expansion of employee share ownership schemes.
On Monday in Brussels, Centre chairman Malcolm Hurlston addressed the European Centre of Employers and Enterprises Providing Public Services or CEEP. He reviewed the considering an employee share ownership scheme, [...]
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The European Centre for Employers and Enterprises providing Public services (CEEP) will hold a seminar on Employee Financial Participation in Brussels on May 7.
Malcolm Hurlston, chairman of the ESOP Centre, will take part in the expert panel discussion on “Profit Sharing: example from Public Services providers”. He will [...]
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