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Taylor Transitions to 100% Employee Ownership Through an ESOP

Taylor Guitars blog, 2021-01-11. Graded primary. Open the original.

Company announcement (primary). Gives signing in late December 2020 and announcement January 11, 2021. Archived 2026-10-15 via Directus URL import (llm:claude-opus-5-5). Excerpts verified verbatim against the live page 2026-10-15: C388, C389.

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Fact	Years	Records	Passage
Taylor Guitars (Westland Music Co. / Taylor-Listug) under Taylor Guitars ESOP^[1]	2020–now	Taylor Guitars (Westland Music Co. / Taylor-Listug), Taylor Guitars ESOP	The company is now officially 100 percent employee owned. … After sharing the news that they had signed the paperwork to make the ownership transition official in late December

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Taylor Transitions to 100% Employee Ownership Through an ESOPgraded primary
- The company is now officially 100 percent employee owned.Taylor Guitars (Westland Music Co. / Taylor-Listug) under Taylor Guitars ESOP, 2020–now
- After sharing the news that they had signed the paperwork to make the ownership transition official in late DecemberTaylor Guitars (Westland Music Co. / Taylor-Listug) under Taylor Guitars ESOP, 2020–now

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