Northern, Ohio-Janotta & Herner proudly marked a major milestone in 2025, celebrating 25 years as an employee-owned company. Since transitioning to an Employee Stock Ownership Plan (ESOP), the company’s past and future has been shaped by a shared commitment to ownership, accountability, and long-term success.
Employee ownership has helped build a culture centered on integrity, collaboration, accountability, and pride in workmanship. An ESOP gives employees an ownership stake in the company, allowing them to directly share the success they help create. This approach aligns individual performance with company performance and reinforces Janotta & Herner’s core values at every level of the organization.
Over the past 25 years, employee ownership has guided Janotta & Herner’s growth and strengthened its vision for the future. The company remains committed to continuing to strengthen its ESOP and investing in its people to ensure long-term stability and success for generations to come.
Employee ownership also delivers meaningful value to clients. When partnering with Janotta & Herner, clients work with a team that has a personal stake in the outcome of every project. This ownership mindset drives accountability, proactive problem-solving, and attention to detail throughout the entire design-build process—resulting in dependable, high-quality project delivery.
Janotta & Herner is proud of its past and excited for the future. The company recognizes its employee-owners for their dedication and hard work, and its clients and partners for their trust and collaboration. Together, they continue to build a strong foundation, delivering quality, innovation, and success for the next 25 years and beyond.
About Janotta & Herner
Janotta & Herner is a regional design-build general contractor based in Northern Ohio, specializing in projects across a wide range of industries including industrial, warehousing, commercial, food-grade, healthcare and community projects.
With an in-house team of architects, engineers, and designers, Janotta & Herner provides a fully integrated design-build solution. The company also employs more than 100 skilled tradespeople who self-perform a wide variety of work, including sitework, concrete, masonry, steel fabrication and erection, specialty metal fabrication, carpentry, roofing, and siding. From concept through completion, Janotta & Herner delivers seamless, quality-driven design-build solutions that bring value and efficiency to every project.