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	<title>The Company We Keep &#187; Employee Ownership</title>
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	<description>South Mountain, Employee Ownership and the Business of Community and Place</description>
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		<title>25 IN 2012 . . . AND RISING</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Jan 2012 16:05:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Betsy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[On the first day of this new year, South Mountain began its 25th year as an employee owned company (and its 38th year in business).  It was on January 1, 1987 that we converted from a sole proprietorship in my ownership to a democratically owned worker co-operative.  As I’ve so often said, it was a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>GET YOURSELF TO BURLINGTON!!</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Jun 2011 10:13:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>jabrams</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[If you&#8217;re interested in employee ownership, one of the very best places you can be is Burlington Vermont on June 10th for the Ninth Annual Vermont Employee Ownership Conference. Over the years I&#8217;ve been part of many of these gatherings.  I&#8217;ve always learned a lot, always enjoyed myself, and always appreciated the fine work of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>CRAFTING A BUSINESS OWNED BY ITS WORKERS</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 27 May 2011 15:07:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Betsy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[During the past year I have been in correspondence and conversation with a number of people who are transitioning their companies to employee ownership, starting worker co-ops, or thinking in new ways about worker ownership and cooperative business. Among them:  Rick Dubrow and Cindy Landreth at A-1 Builders in Bellingham, WA, who are working on [...]]]></description>
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		<title>EXITS &amp; OPPORTUNITIES</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Nov 2010 17:38:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>jabrams</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[BO BURLINGHAM IS AN INC. MAGAZINE editor-at-large who has been writing about entrepreneurship  for three decades.  I know him; we have crossed paths several times.  But I know him much better from his writing, which includes a fine book called SMALL GIANTS:  Companies That Choose to Be Great Instead of Big (I have to admit [...]]]></description>
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		<title>SMC IN THE NEWS</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 13 May 2010 14:22:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Betsy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I’d like to share some nice press SMC has received recently. The first two are recent articles in local magazines about projects of ours. The third is a piece on an on-line magazine called TONIC. I hope you enjoy these.  We have.  I&#8217;ll be back with something more substantive than all this fluff soon!!]]></description>
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