Talk:Burns & McDonnell

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A fact from Burns & McDonnell appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 23 July 2022 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows:

Did you know... that the engineering and architectural company Burns & McDonnell is 100% owned by its employees?

A record of the entry may be seen at Wikipedia:Recent additions/2022/July. The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Burns & McDonnell.

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Deletion?

I've noticed that it was nominated for deletion, but today this is one of the largest 100% employee owned companies in the USA, expanding at a impressive speed and has received numerous awards for one of the top companies to work and in the engineering industry. Paradise Chronicle (talk) 03:09, 20 June 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Did you know nomination

The following is an archived discussion of the DYK nomination of the article below. Please do not modify this page. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as this nomination's talk page, the article's talk page or Wikipedia talk:Did you know), unless there is consensus to re-open the discussion at this page. No further edits should be made to this page.

The result was: promoted by Z1720 (talk) 21:25, 19 July 2022 (UTC)[reply]

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... that the Engineer and Architectural company Burns & McDonnell is owned 100% by its employees? Source: Burns & McDonnell’s ESOP currently owns 98% of the company – with the remaining 2% allocated to the company’s board and executive team. https://www.forbes.com/sites/darrendahl/2016/06/17/how-do-you-build-companies-that-last-hundreds-of-years-make-them-employee-owned/
- ALT1 ... that since the Engineer and Architectural company Burns & McDonnell was sold to an ESOP in 1985, it is owned 100% by its employees? as above
- Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/Arthur Gray (philatelist)

Created by Paradise Chronicle (talk). Self-nominated at 04:35, 26 June 2022 (UTC).[reply]

Interesting company, on fine sources, no copyvio obvious. I believe that the ALT provides more context. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 11:37, 30 June 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Promoted ALT0 to Prep 5. Z1720 (talk) 21:25, 19 July 2022 (UTC)[reply]