This company pioneered a new business structure to preserve its mission

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The new owner of Organically Grown Company , an Oregon-based organic produce distributor, isn't a person but a trust, created to help the company maintain its social and environmental mission as it grows. The company is the first in the U.S. to use something called purpose trust law to restructure itself. As they grew, because an S-corp can only have a limited number of owners, they added an employee stock ownership plan. (It's commonly used for purposes like maintaining a family art collection, for example, but hasn't been used before to help a company maintain its mission.) A board will run the company to ensure that it's maximizing its social and environmental purpose, not focusing on short-term profits.

OIP announces new hire; Wagman names new president, and other business news: Trade Talk

Elizabeth Frey of Mont Clare was named assistant director of the York College Fund at York College of Pennsylvania. Kristen M. Heisey has joined PeoplesBank, A Codorus Valley Company, as vice president and director of marketing and client experience. She resides in Denver, Pa.Sheila Hykes , of York, has joined Grit Marketing Group in York as an office manager. Colleen Karl of New Cumberland was named a writer in the Office of Communications at York College of Pennsylvania. Karl previously served as CRM administrator and communication and reporting specialist at York College.

6 features in the new MacBooks that business users should love

referring to AppleApple on Thursday launched a new family of MacBook Pro laptops in several new configurations for both the 13-inch and 15-inch MacBook Pro. The MacBook Pro is the laptop that's designed for the worker bee. With that in mind, Apple tells us that these new laptops include several features that business users should love. On top of that, the new version of the operating system — macOS Mojave, due out this fall — also has an armload of business-friendly features. Take a look: