Winning Workplaces' most recent Success Story on 2008 Top Small Workplace King Arthur Flour Company – part of our October IDEAS newsletter – represents a first among the over 100 such small business profiles we've written.  It's the first to chart revenue growth by people practices, proving the payoff of employee engagement.

As my colleague Jason Ticus, who interviewed employee-owners at the Vermont-based consumer goods firm, wrote, "For decades the company operated small scale and independently, actually shrinking to the point of having only three employees in 1990 (with revenues of $3.5 million)."

That year served as a launching pad, though.  The graph below depicts three strategic pivot points that – fueled by their culture of ownership – enabled King Arthur to increase its revenue by over 1800% from 1990 to today.  And employ 157 (5200%) more people.

Related: Learn how 219-year-old King Arthur is mixing tradition with new inventions from their CEO, Steve Voigt, in this webinar recording.