European employee-owned companies ranked for the first time
January 2007
For the first time the European Federation of Employee Shareownership have ranked and analysed all European largest employee-owned companies in a full systematic way. Rankings for 2006 were published during the Sixth European Meeting of Employee Ownership on 14-16 December 2006 in Brussels.
There are two areas to the research: the EUROCAP100 which ranks by employees' equity; and the EUROEMP100 which ranks by number of employees.
Here are some key statistics from the research:
EUROCAP100
- 105 billion euro held by employees
- 8.4 million employees, impacting on 35 million people (10% of the European population)
EUROEMP100
- companies are mainly co-operatives or employee buy-outs
- 340,000 employees
- 7.4% growth from 2005
Click here for the 2006 rankings and analysis
The European Employee Ownership Top 100 rankings are just the tip of the iceberg. The rankings have been based on the screening of the 2,000 biggest capitalisations among European listed companies (all capitalisations of 200 millions Euro or more) and the 200 biggest non-listed ones.