Business View Magazine Apr-2023

67 BUSINESS VIEW MAGAZINE VOLUME 10, ISSUE 4 Starting in 2006, when Murrell considered planning her own retirement, she contemplated the idea of handing back the company to its employees. The many benefits of this business status become clear to her. The way to accomplish that was to transition Giroux Glass from its status as a privately held company, to that of an ESOP ( employee stock ownership plan), and she began the process. By October 2017, and with a new CEO and president, Natline Lomedico at the helm, the transition was complete. Giroux Glass became a 100 percent employee-owned company that continues to provide glass, glazing, and architectural metals to mainly commercial clients in the Southwest. Giroux Glass now operates branches in three states, with offices in Los Angeles, San Bernardino, Las Vegas, Fresno, Orange County and Phoenix. It hires union-certified GI ROUX GLASS Nataline inspecting our work on the Skywalk at the Grand