NOVASPECT
The number of Novaspect Employee Owners (round to the nearest one hundred).
What is 300?
The unofficial food of the UP. A folded pastry commonly filled with meat and vegetables.
What is a pasty? (not the same as a pastie)
He enjoys spending 3 hours per week mowing his massive lawn.
Who is Randy Rea?
The ESOP acronym stands for this.
What is Employee Stock Ownership Plan?
The Green Bay Packers won the first Superbowl this year.
What is 1967?
The smallest Novaspect office is located in this Indiana city.
What is Highland?
This horse won the 2019 Kentucky Derby due to disqualification of Maximum Security who actually crossed the finish line first.
Who is Country House? (65:1 odds!)
This Midwest Valve Services employee is an invaluable team member that manages orders, invoices and makes our services business move smoothly.
Who is Kathy Schreier?
Full time Novaspect employees enter the employee ownership plan on either January 1st or July 1st following their first year of employment. After how many years will they become fully vested?
What is two years?
Wisconsin received one of it's nicknames...The Badger State....because of these workers digging into the hillsides of Southwest WI during the 1830s.
What are lead miners?
Bonus
Novaspect Reliability provides these type of services. (name at least two)
What are:
He is the Milwaukee Buck's biggest play maker. Also known as the Greek Freak.
Who is Giannis Antetokounmpo?
(pronounced: YAH-nis AHN-teh-tuh-KOOM-poh)
Bonus
He is the newest member of the WI team and grew up in a traditional small WI town with two churches and three bars.
Who is Mark Londre - WI Regional Sales Manager?
Most US based ESOP's are structured as what type of corporation which provides considerable tax advantages.
What is an S-Corporation?
Wisconsin is the leading North American producer of this plant which is thought to boost energy and provide other medicinal benefits.
What is Ginseng?
This Emerson Automation offering is a comprehensive solution combining technology, the Industrial Internet of Things, engineering and consulting expertise to drive Top Quartile performance for our customers. John Hall is the Novaspect VP leading this business unit.
What is Operational Certainty?
The city in which Elvis was discovered dead.
What is Memphis?
He spent many years in the Nuclear power industry. When he isn't diagnosing control valve issues he enjoys riding his Harley and working on cars.
Who is John Rosera?
This ESOP is a large discount grocery retailer that is headquartered in Janesville, WI.
What is Woodman's?
This famous Dukes of Hazzard actor grew up in Lodi, WI.
Who is Tom Wopat (Luke Duke)?
Novaspect/MVS employee owners strive to demonstrate these core behaviors everyday.
What are Teamwork, Passion, Candor, Evolve and Own the Results?
Bonus
It takes about 40 years before a maple tree is old enough to tap for sap. It takes about this many gallons of sap to make one gallon of maple syrup.
What is 40 gallons?
This Novaspect Executive Team member enjoys taking his family skiing at Granite Peak in the winter and the Boundary Waters fishing in the summer.
Who is Joe Simchak?
On average, companies grow at least this much more (%) per year after becoming an ESOP than they averaged prior to becoming an ESOP.
What is 2%? (Growing at least 2% more over a 10 year period would result in the ESOP being 20% larger than a non-ESOP. NCEO statistic)
Bonus
These four Wisconsin cities are the largest by population.
What are Milwaukee, Madison, Green Bay and Kenosha?