Eaga Partnership

The Energy Action Grant Agency, the Eaga Partnership, was established as a not-for-profit company in 1990. Following ownership changes at the tail-end of the 90s, the organisation became 100 per cent employee-owned - a business model that has proved successful for a handful of household names, most notably department store chain John Lewis.

As a group - Eaga also operates out of offices in Tyneside, Bristol, Cardiff and Dungannon - annual turnover is comfortably north of the £200 million mark. The Edinburgh operation is a major contributor, generating income of more than £50m.

"We may well be the largest employee-owned social enterprise in Scotland," says Mr Scobie, who jokes that his official job title, director of Scotland, makes him sound "very William Wallace". ^[1]