{"id":5727,"date":"2010-01-04T11:17:41","date_gmt":"2010-01-04T09:17:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/?p=5727"},"modified":"2010-01-04T11:17:41","modified_gmt":"2010-01-04T09:17:41","slug":"taking-the-co-operative-approach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2010\/01\/04\/taking-the-co-operative-approach\/","title":{"rendered":"Taking the co-operative approach"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ft.com\/cms\/s\/0\/1ca6b5b0-f88a-11de-beb8-00144feab49a.html\">FT.com \/ Companies \/ Industrial Goods - Clansman&rsquo;s staff take co-operative approach<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>A thriving engineering company, Clansman Dynamics, is the latest Scottish venture to become an employee-owned business.<\/p>\n<p>Founded in 1994 by Dick Philbrick, Clansman makes robotic handling equipment for forges, foundries, steelworks and garbage handling.<\/p>\n<div id=\"floating-con\">\n<div class=\"img-con\">\n<p class=\"img\">Employing 30 staff and with turnover of \u00a37m ($11.3m), Clansman is planning to achieve turnover of about \u00a310m within the next two years as it expands its products and services.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>&ldquo;It has been a long-term ambition to take the company into employee ownership and ensure it remains in Scotland,&rdquo; said Mr Philbrick. &ldquo;I decided it was time to make it happen and put the company in the hands of the people that are best placed to realise its potential \u2014 the employees.&rdquo;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>This is the way forward for really entrepreneurial business.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>FT.com \/ Companies \/ Industrial Goods &#8211; Clansman&rsquo;s staff take co-operative approach. A thriving engineering company, Clansman Dynamics, is the latest Scottish venture to become<br \/><a class=\"moretag\" href=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2010\/01\/04\/taking-the-co-operative-approach\/\"><em> Read the full article&#8230;<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[119],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5727","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cooperatives"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5727","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5727"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5727\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5727"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5727"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5727"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}