Ohio Gratings
The manufacturing company based in Canton, Ohio, received a Plan Sponsor of the Year Award in the Corporate Defined Contribution <$50MM category at this year’s PLANSPONSOR National Conference. Karen Bartley, executive vice president, and John Bartley, president and CEO, lead the company’s retirement plan. In a sit-down interview, Karen Bartley discusses the impetus for scrapping the company match formula and switching to a nonelective contribution, working with a new adviser and recordkeeper, as well as advice to other plan sponsors on how to improve participant engagement.
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