History Scott Bader was founded by Ernest Bader in 1921. The company was family owned and conventionally managed for 30 years, but Ernest was never comfortable with a capitalist governance structure. For many years he and his family sought a 'third way' of distributing the capital of the company in a less divisive manner and a method by which all employees could have a 'real' say in the company. They believed that labour should employ capital acknowledging the equality of everyone as individu...