Employee stock ownership of
different magnitudes, from 5 - 25 % in stock market
companies to 30 - 100 % in small businesses, appears in
companies throughout the U.S., with plans designed
by local entrepreneurs and
companies based on their specific conditions, given the many formats that the U.S. government has recognized over two and a half centuries.
By the 1960s, the Sutherland family milling operation sold many
different varieties of flour and corn meal to households
throughout the country, and the introduction of a popular seasoned flour created for frying meats and vegetables drove the
company to even further heights of success.