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Employee ownership: changing the social and economic landscape

Stephen Greenwood CEO, Valloop

Valloop CEO, Stephen Greenwood, on how a tide of employee-owned SMEs can transform the UK’s economic and social landscape by 2030.

15 Dec 2020, 5 min read

One of the least known business statistics is this: there are approximately seven hundred thousand mature, established, and profitable small and medium-sized businesses (SMEs) owned by Baby Boomers in the UK.

Born between the end of WWII and the early 1970s, this generation of innovators formed many of today’s established businesses over a 20-year period. These mature SMEs have carved out niche trade positions in established markets and are the backbone of regional economies and employment.

As SMEs reach maturity and their founders consider a graceful

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