A services Cooperative company, is a system, it is a complex organization that is the result of the different business ideas, experiences and knowledges that interact and enrich themselves through cooperation in projects and jobs. When you choose the cooperative form, becoming an entrepreneur may be easier and less risky. Being cooperators means acting together in a dynamic and flexible structure in which workers are also entrepreneurs and blend mutuality and managerial skills. The economic model that follows, it is part of a system that cares to adapt to the new technological and productive trends without altering the essence of solidarity which is the basis of the cooperation itself and landing in the modern system of integrated production enterprises.

La Meridiana Group represents one of these realities that in the last ten years, with its growing flexibility and development of new collaborations pattern, could react to the work world transformation. Through the outsourcing of personnel and services, La Meridiana Group allow the cooperative companies to offer better and major occupation assurance for its collaborators and allow to compitively take part of business world.

Cooperative company business represents a big portion of the italian economy. In the last years many of these activities showed up with this cooperative system and we forecast that in the 2015 this number will keep growing.

Following some information from Fibo’s Manual “What is and why start a services cooperative company”

The principles of Services Cooperative Companies:

1. One for all, all for one

The cooperative is the only business form that does not allow the concentration in a few hands of a company ownership. Whatever is the share capital held, at the time of the vote, each collaborator has the same power.

2. Active participation

The collaborators are the members who administer the cooperative company: it is mandatory that the board of directors is composed of a majority of cooperative members.

3. Mutualistic nature

The end of a cooperative is not personal gain, but to achieve mutual exchanges with shareholders.

4. Non-speculative nature

In the time of dissolution, the shareholders can not divide the assets of the cooperative, nor can they sell the company as a whole. The law allows a preferential taxation of profits, provided that is reinvested in the company development.

5. The cooperative is an open structure.

Anyone who shares the principles mutualistic can ask to be part of it and it can accept this request provided it is able to satisfy the need of employment or service.

6. The intergenerational solidarity

The cooperative tents, usually by its nature, to be preserved in time for future generations, fueling a virtuous cycle of investment and innovation and the transfer of skills and abilities among older and younger members.

7. Solidarity between companies

By sharing the same principles, including cooperative companies are implemented forms of solidarity and development, both in the consolidation in the market. This allows any company to be part of a movement that wants to affirm the values ​​of efficiency and quality.

8. The mutuality outward

Among the missions of the cooperative company is to favor with direct and indirect contributions, the creation of new companies by allocating 3% of their profits to a mutual fund aimed at cooperational promotion and development.

The experience of the Consortium

In the reality a cooperative company needs to be in as many possible relationships with other companies and organizations. In an increasingly competitive world one of the solutions is to invest in a work-force and join a consortium. The immediate benefits in doing this step are definitely related to the world of taxation, administration and marketing. La Meridiana Group is indeed a Consortium dynamic and flexible, it is present in the Italian business for more than ten years and it already includes several cooperative organizations in various production sectors. Read more about us or contact us…