The ESOP is a noncontributory plan that covers certain salaried and hourly employees of the Company.    From Wordnik.com.  [Recently Uploaded Slideshows] Reference

The ESOP is a government program that allows employees to contribute part of their paychecks to buy stock in the company they work for.    From Wordnik.com.  [Moultrie Observer Homepage] Reference

( "ESOP") since 1974, which was approved by the IRS as a qualified plan.    From Wordnik.com.  [Recently Uploaded Slideshows] Reference

"ESOP" intends to purchase an aggregate of 150,991 shares, or 4.63% of the common stock sold in the offering.    From Wordnik.com.  [Alliance Bancorp, Inc. of Pennsylvania Announces Completion of Second Step Conversion and $32.6 Million Public Offering - Yahoo! Finance] Reference

The ESOP is a non-leveraged plan.    From Wordnik.com.  [Recently Uploaded Slideshows] Reference

The ESOP received all the company's common shares.    From Wordnik.com.  [Tribune Stock Plan Draws U.S. Subpoena] Reference

The ESOP then releases shares into employee accounts.    From Wordnik.com.  [Tribune Filing Exposes Risks of ESOPs] Reference

Scheme (ESOP), but wanted it to be in line with Black Economic.    From Wordnik.com.  [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference

The ESOP has created enviable nest eggs for many Phelps employees.    From Wordnik.com.  [Top Small Workplaces 2007] Reference

The probe concerns Tribune's employee stock ownership plan, or ESOP.    From Wordnik.com.  [Tribune Stock Plan Draws U.S. Subpoena] Reference

No Department of Labor, no Workers Comp, no 401K or ESOP regulations.    From Wordnik.com.  [Paleo-Capitalism {WMail #40}] Reference

The board agreed and ultimately decided to diversify 25% of the ESOP.    From Wordnik.com.  [Manufacturer Pushes Stock Diversification] Reference

The committee also changed how new employees are introduced to the ESOP.    From Wordnik.com.  [How to Get Workers to Think and Act Like Owners] Reference

The lawsuit asks for board representation for employees and a new ESOP trustee.    From Wordnik.com.  [Tribune, Zell Named in Employees' Suit] Reference

Tribune's ESOP is the subject of a lawsuit filed by current and former employees.    From Wordnik.com.  [Tribune Stock Plan Draws U.S. Subpoena] Reference

The company contributes money to the ESOP, which the ESOP uses to repay the bank.    From Wordnik.com.  [Tribune Filing Exposes Risks of ESOPs] Reference

Yes, blame the federal tax code for creating the ESOP loophole in the first place.    From Wordnik.com.  [Zell's Hell] Reference

Three weeks later De Sole retaliated, creating an employee stock-option plan (ESOP).    From Wordnik.com.  [You Can't Touch This] Reference

Only a few months earlier, Sam Zell had used an ESOP bid to purchase the Tribune Company.    From Wordnik.com.  [Burkle and Greenspan Gather Journal Kiddies for ESOP Fable] Reference

Instead, the court suspended voting rights of both LVMH and the ESOP pending a review of the case.    From Wordnik.com.  [You Can't Touch This] Reference

Hedge funds and buyout houses haven't played the ESOP-S corp game, for a variety of technical reasons.    From Wordnik.com.  [Extra! Tribune Sale Involves Tax Dodge.] Reference

The lawsuit, filed in September, alleges Tribune and Mr. Zell failed to uphold their fiduciary duty to the ESOP.    From Wordnik.com.  [Tribune Stock Plan Draws U.S. Subpoena] Reference

One big potential exposure came via the employee stock ownership plan, or ESOP, which the company set up in 2007.    From Wordnik.com.  [Tribune Filing Exposes Risks of ESOPs] Reference

At this point, the employees technically haven't lost anything in the ESOP because their balances are still zero.    From Wordnik.com.  [Tribune Filing Exposes Risks of ESOPs] Reference

Last February, a town meeting was held to discuss the formula used to disperse Reflexite's stock through the ESOP.    From Wordnik.com.  [Top Small Workplaces 2007] Reference

But by establishing an ESOP, the company is able to deduct both the interest and the principal on the loan repayments.    From Wordnik.com.  [Tribune Filing Exposes Risks of ESOPs] Reference

But as Van Meter's experience shows, just establishing an ESOP often isn't enough to get employees to think like owners.    From Wordnik.com.  [How to Get Workers to Think and Act Like Owners] Reference

New Tribune's only shareholder will be the ESOP, which — like all ESOPs and other employee-benefit plans — is tax-exempt.    From Wordnik.com.  [Extra! Tribune Sale Involves Tax Dodge.] Reference

He said that if Mr. Burkle or someone else wanted to put together an ESOP bid, in theory, he should be able to find a lender.    From Wordnik.com.  [Burkle and Greenspan Gather Journal Kiddies for ESOP Fable] Reference

In 2006, the value of Brookfield stock climbed 15.5%, compared with an 8% average return for its three other ESOP investments.    From Wordnik.com.  [Manufacturer Pushes Stock Diversification] Reference

Companies can readily switch the matching-stock portion of a 401 (k) into something called an Employee Stock Ownership Plan (ESOP).    From Wordnik.com.  [401(K)S And The Enron Mess] Reference

To call the resulting deal a pump-and-dump operation, however softened by the warm and cuddly ESOP connotations, may be unduly harsh.    From Wordnik.com.  [Zell's Hell] Reference

Under the ESOP, Tribune was planning to contribute shares -- worth about 5% of each employee's pay -- into employee accounts each year.    From Wordnik.com.  [Tribune Filing Exposes Risks of ESOPs] Reference

The value of ESOP share purchases is set by an independent third party, which might mean a lower price than owners would set themselves.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Art of the Sale] Reference

Initial Resistance It took three years for Brookfield to reach its goal of getting 25% of the ESOP in investments other than company stock.    From Wordnik.com.  [Manufacturer Pushes Stock Diversification] Reference