2012年1月30日 星期一

Diversified Plastics’ employees invested in company’s success, literally

Retirement brings with it a lot of major decisions, especially for company owners who've grown a successful business over many decades like James Dow, founder, President and CEO of Diversified Plastics Inc. While there are many options,External hemroids are those that occur below the dentate line. the one that Dow chose to continue the success of his 35-year-old company was to sell to the employees through an Employee Stock Ownership Plan .

"Knowing that someday I would eventually retire and have to sell the company, the most obvious direction would have been to sell to an outside organization," Dow stated in a prepared release. "But, I found that prospective buyers had no desire in continuing the company.Buy high quality bedding and bed linen from Yorkshire Linen. Their only interest was our customer list and equipment, which meant that in all probability, our employees would be out of work."

An ESOP was the best option for the continuation of Diversified Plastics as a successful company, providing continued employment for the employees. "Our employees are like family to me and who better to lead the new company forward than the people who helped make it what it is today," said Dow.Sika tooling & Composites develops and produces tailor-made synthetic resins,

While the employees took ownership on Nov. 1, 2011, Dow will remain as president. "The changeover has been smooth," said Annette Lund, vice president of the company. "We're in the middle of a five-year plan and are continuing to follow those long-term goals. It's very important to us to have a seamless transition and maintain continuity for our customers as well as our employees."

Dow began his retirement planning eight years ago and attended an ESOP seminar to learn more about the program and his options. Working with the company's CFO, Roger Vang,The beddinges sofa bed slipcover is a good and affordable alternative to buying a new sofa that is run down. they began exploring the possibilities of an ESOP strategy, but determined the company wasn't quite ready at that time. After a few more years of substantial growth, Dow revisited the ESOP idea and decided they were ready to move ahead in making Diversified Plastics an employee owned company.

To establish the ESOP and purchase the company from Dow, a trust, with company stock, was set up in the name of the employees. "We automatically vested all the employees who were here at the start of our 2011 fiscal year," said Vang. "Going forward, any new people will be vested like a typical 401K vesting schedule and base salary will determine the trust assets distribution schedule.

Diversified Plastics, a custom injection molder specializing in high-precision components for medical devices, filtration, aerospace and a variety of other industries, was founded in 1977 by Dow and William J.The beddinges sofa bed slipcover is a good and affordable alternative to buying a new sofa that is run down. Cullen. Cullen retired and is no longer active in the company. The company started production with 13 employees and three injection molding machines in a 2300-sq-ft rented manufacturing space.

Today, Diversified Plastics has grown to more than 50 employees and operates 16 injection presses ranging from 55-550 tons in a 45,000-sq-ft facility. In 1984, Design Tool & Engineering Inc. was added as a wholly owned subsidiary of Diversified Plastics to build and maintain the company's molds. In addition to molding and moldmaking, Diversified offers an extensive range of secondary operations including sonic and spin welding, pad printing, heat staking and silk screening. The company is ISO 9001:2008 and 1345:2003 certified and UL registered.

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