October is Employee Ownership Month! We’re proud to recognize our Bell Bank team members, nearly 2,000 strong, who become employee-owners of the company through our employee stock ownership plan (ESOP).

Our founders, including North Dakota farmer and entrepreneur Buck Snortland and his son Mickey, (a longtime majority shareholder and bank director who passed away in 2013), would be proud of Bell’s continued success – and happy that our employees continue to be stewards of the company they helped found and grow.

The Snortland, Fairfield and Solberg families, who continue as majority shareholders of Bell Bank, established the ESOP in 2016. We are proud to be a family- and employee-owned bank, with a legacy of service established almost 60 years ago.

Happy Employee Ownership Month!