McKay Kids Co, founded in 1897 in Waterloo, Wisconsin, has been a long history of commitment to employees. Compact organization has been a pioneer in agriculture several people-friendly policies. But in the early 1980s, and the owners McKay got older and senior management closer to retirement, the next generation of managers feared for the future of profitable, debt-free company. Middle manager Griff Mason and his colleagues were concerned McKay may be subject to a hostile takeover, which will move the company from the community who supported him for nearly a century. They wondered what they could do to keep the company in Waterloo and still retain its employees, nearly half of whom were migrant workers. "Hide
by Kathleen Meyer, Laura Pochop, Stephen Weiss Source: Business Enterprise Trust 6 pages. Publication Date: December 30, 1996. Prod. #: 996060-PDF-ENG
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