CRANBERRY TWP — Cindy Austin was 26 years old and looking for a job when she found Nicklas Supply in the newspaper.
Thirty-four years later, she is one of the many owners of the company in Cranberry Township, which opted into an Employee Stock Ownership Plan (ESOP) a few years ago.
ESOP is an “employer-sponsored benefit plan that gives employees an ownership stake in the business where they work,” according to the National Center for Employee Ownership website…