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The Midwest division of Meek's Lumber will acquire seven of E.C. Barton & Co.'s retail building material stores in southwest Missouri. Three will become Meek's yards, while the other four will be consolidated. More
As Eugene C. Barton, a second-generation lumberman in Jonesboro, Ark., entered his golden years in the 1960s, he wanted to make sure his firm, E.C. Barton & Co., carried on after he was gone. With little interest from his own family to stay in the business, he transferred ownership to an employee-run board of directors, and gave it the mission of maintaining the company as an ongoing concern. By 1975, that board chose a new ownership structure for the operation, one that Congress had recently introduced: an employee stock ownership plan, or ESOP. More
