Stake & Soul
Your dose of thought-provoking insights into the world of Employee Ownership with Barry Horner.
Stake & Soul
Latest Episodes
#12 Liam Toms: How Grapevine Became Employee-Owned and Found Its Voice Again
In this episode of Stake & Soul, Barry speaks with Liam Toms, Communications and Engagement Manager at Grapevine, the Dorset-based managed IT and telecoms provider that transitioned to 100 percent employee ownership via an Employee Ownershi...
#11 Alastair Sawday: How Sawday's Built a Hybrid Employee-Owned, Charitable, Family Company
In this episode of Stake and Soul, Barry speaks with Alastair Sawday, founder of Sawday's, the Bristol-based travel publisher that began in 1994 as a scruffy file of addresses from his small group tour company and grew into one of Britain's mos...
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#10 Nick Parsons: How Parsons Bakery Handed a 100-Year-Old Family Business to Its 400 Staff
In this episode of Stake and Soul, Barry speaks with Nick Parsons, fourth generation leader of Parsons Bakery, the Bristol-based bakery that grew from a horse and cart in the 1910s into a 50-store, 400-strong business across the southwest. In A...
#9 Karen Maguire: How Relinea Became Northern Ireland's EOT Pioneer
In this episode of Stake and Soul, Barry speaks with Karen Maguire, founder of Relinea, the Northern Ireland-based manufacturer supplying glass reinforced plastic (GRP) alternatives to the construction sector. Karen built Relinea from a port-a-...
#8 David Sproxton: Why Aardman Turned Down a Buyout and Gave the Studio to Its People
In this episode Barry speaks with David Sproxton, co-founder of Aardman Animations, the Bristol-based studio behind Wallace and Gromit, Shaun the Sheep, Morph, and Chicken Run. For more than 50 years, David and his co-founder Peter ...
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