Boston Beer Co Inc (SAM): This Is 1 Incredible CEO

Although Boston Beer doesn’t pay a dividend (something you can find with Molson Coors or Anheuser-Busch InBev), it makes up for it with phenomenal growth that’s resulted in 1,116% share price appreciation over the past decade. So even without a dividend, shareholders have done pretty well.

Boston Beer’s employees are doing well, too. One incredible perk is that many employees enjoy a flexible scheduling policy that allows them to choose their own hours to work. In Boston, the company’s headquarters, employees often get to work from their homes twice a week. In addition to flexible scheduling, employees are given two free cases of Sam Adams beer each month, are privy to monthly cake and beer parties to celebrate employee birthdays, and are encouraged to participate in the company’s annual Homebrew competition. Best of all, the company supplies all the materials needed to brew your own concoction.

Seeing as Boston Beer has a tightly knit employee base, it only makes sense that the company is a big community giver as well. As my Foolish colleague Daniel Ferry has pointed out recently, Boston Beer is a beer industry financier, lending money to start-up brewers and coaching them on how to properly run their business. It also donated 40,000 pounds of its own hops to struggling brewers during the hop shortage of 2008.

Two thumbs up
Breaking into a beer market dominated by just a few behemoths wasn’t easy, but founder Jim Koch and current CEO Martin Roper have done an amazing job at building Boston Beer Co Inc (NYSE:SAM) on the premise of providing ample choices to consumers, building up the value of its employees, and giving back to the craft beer community. With more than 50 beers to choose from, a rapidly growing revenue stream, and a management team that’s always on course, it’s not hard to see why Martin Roper is an incredible CEO and is most worthy of two thumbs up.

The article This Is One Incredible CEO originally appeared on Fool.com.

Fool contributor Sean Williams has no material interest in any companies mentioned in this article. You can follow him on CAPS under the screen name TMFUltraLong, track every pick he makes under the screen name TrackUltraLong, and check him out on Twitter, where he goes by the handle @TMFUltraLong.The Motley Fool owns shares of and recommends Boston Beer. It also recommends Molson Coors.

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