October 16, 2020

Fireclay Tile ESOP Menke
Fireclay Tile Becomes the Bay Area’s Next Employee-Owned Ceramics Company

San Francisco’s Fireclay Tile has followed its peer, Menke client Heath Ceramics, into employee ownership. Fireclay had previously given its employees a 14% stake in the company in 2013, and has now expanded the employee’s ownership stake by an additional 23%, meaning the workers own more than a third of the business. Home to 150…