How can the ICA Group help us start a worker cooperative?

ICA Provides the following Services:

Feasibility Analysis and Business Planning

When clients identify a business opportunity, ICA analyzes the market and completes a feasibility study to determine if the business concept is viable for a worker cooperative. If the feasibility study is positive, ICA prepares a detailed business plan to show how the cooperative business will operate, earn a profit and repay its lenders.

Business Implementation

With a strong business plan in hand, ICA helps the cooperative raise the necessary financing, recruit and hire management staff, secure a business location, negotiate the purchase or lease of capital equipment, and train workers, managers, and boards of directors about organizing in a way to ensure ongoing participation and productivity.

Strategic Planning Services

ICA provides technical assistance to existing cooperatives that want to improve internal systems, explore new markets, plan for future growth or restructure their financing. 

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