Pepper Joe

Seeds; Produce

Food & Beverage

Home & Garden

Pepper Joe is an employee-owned pepper seed provider headquartered in Urbana, Iowa. The company was founded in 1989 by the original Pepper Joe and Pepper Joe Sr with a passion for hot peppers that continues to this day. Pepper Joe became employee-owned after their parent company, Clickstop, which implemented an Employee Stock Ownership Plan (ESOP) in 2018.

Pepper Joe is an employee-owned company headquartered in Urbana, Iowa.

Pepper Joe is an employee-owned company.

While they are not certified, based on Department of Labor 5500 fillings and other third-party data sources, we believe their ESOP meets our standards of significant and broad-based employee ownership.

While they are not certified, based third-party data sources, we believe their Worker Cooperative meets our standards of significant and broad-based employee ownership.

While they are not certified, based third-party data sources, we believe their Employee Ownership Trust meets our standards of significant and broad-based employee ownership.

While they are not certified, we believe they meet our standards of significant and broad-based employee ownership.