Article: Expanding horizons: employee training, monthly profit-sharing helps welding-gas supplier grow. (ABCO Welding & Industrial Supply Inc)

To continue growing as an independent welding supplies and specialty gas distributor, Kent Lacey and his managers devised several business plans including a profit-sharing incentive in 1995 for employees who boosted the bottom line. In exchange for cutting costs and bringing in new customers for the Waterford, Conn.-based firm, all 58 employees at ABCO Welding & Industrial Supply, Inc. began receiving monthly bonuses.

The results have been extra cash for employees during each of the first 24 months and higher profits for the company, which has doubled its sales in the past six years. Employees are serving up new ideas from purchasing delivery trucks to ...

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