BP used to go one better. They also had a one-for-one scheme, give them your shares with voting rights for two years and get twice your shares back. So you went into the 5 year savings scheme, after 5 years the savings were then converted into shares at the price agreed five years before, and put straight into the two year one-for-one. After seven years the value of the shares I got was roughly 4 times what I put in.
