Zachary’s becoming an Employee-Owned Company featured in “The Ultimate Employee Buy-in”
“One of the great ironies of entrepreneurship is that many people spend years building their companies, only to undo all of that work at the very end by deciding to sell the business to the wrong person…. ESOPs have become a mainstream alternative for business owners who wish to sell their business but want it to remain largely intact…. For (founders Barbara Gabel and Zach Zachowski), giving managers and employees the opportunity to own the business is a way of thanking them, as well as a perfect fit with the couple’s aspirations. ‘It’s a reward for them,’ says Gabel. ‘But it’s also very much a sign of success for us.’” December 2005