This is a list of notable employee-owned companies by country. These are companies totally or significantly owned (directly or indirectly) by their employees. Employee ownership takes different forms and one form may predominate in a particular country. For example, in the U.S. most of the estimated 4,000 majority employee-owned companies have an Employee Stock Ownership Plan (ESOP). An ESOP is an employee-owner method that provides a company's workforce with an ownership interest in the company. In an ESOP, companies provide their employees with stock ownership, often at no up-front cost to the employees. ESOP shares, however, are part of employees' remuneration for work performed. Shares are allocated to employees and may be held in an ESOP trust until the employee retires or leaves the company. The shares are then sold. Canada EllisDon Friesens Golder Associates Hatch Ltd Morrison Hershfield PCL Construction India Aavin Adarsh Co-operative Bank Amul Banas Dairy Co-optex Dabbawala Horticultural Producers' Cooperative Marketing and Processing Society Indian Coffee House Indian Farmers Fertiliser Cooperative Indian Potash Limited J Thomas & Co. Pvt. Ltd. Kaira District Co-operative Milk Producers' Union Karnataka Milk Federation Kerala Co-operative Milk Marketing Federation Krishak Bharati Cooperative Larsen & Toubro Mother Dairy National Agricultural Cooperative Marketing Federation of India Orissa State Cooperative Milk Producers' Federation Pratibha Mahila Sahakari Bank Rehwa Society Sant Muktabai Sahakari Sakhar Karkhana The Totgars' Cooperative Sale Society Limited Working Women's Forum Japan Nikkei, Inc. Scandinavia Kantega Spain IDOM Mondragon Corporation United Kingdom Aardman Animations Agilisys Allford Hall Monaghan & Morris Arup Boydell & Brewer Central Surrey Health Donald Insall Associates Hayes Davidson John Lewis Partnership MJP Architects Mott MacDonald PA Consulting Group Richer Sounds Riverford Talis Group Team Consulting Tullis Russell West Highland Free Press United States Acadian Ambulance Applied Research Associates Arizmendi Bakery Bi-Mart Black & Veatch Bob's Red Mill Brookshire Brothers Carter's Foods Casino Queen CDM Smith Certain Affinity CH2M Hill The Cheese Board Collective Chicago and North Western Railway - sold to Union Pacific Railroad in 1995 Columbia Forest Products Dahl's Foods Davey Tree Expert Company Dynetics Ebby Halliday Realtors Edgewood Management, LLC Eureka Casino Resort Evergreen Cooperatives Ferrellgas Partners Food Giant Frontline Test Equipment Gardener's Supply Company Gensler Golden Artist Colors Graybar Great Lakes Brewing Company Greatland Corporation Harps Food Stores HDR, Inc. Hensel Phelps Construction Herff Jones Herman Miller Houchens Industries Huck's Food & Fuel Hy-Vee John J. McMullen & Associates - now part of Alion Science