During the last years the cooperative model has become more and more popular and is an important percentage of the Italian economy with constant growth prospects.

Gruppo La Meridiana is exactly one of these realities; over the years it has been able to react to change in the working world, with its increasing fluidity and the advance of new forms of collaboration. Through the outsourcing of services and personnel, makes the model of the cooperative offers a guarantee on the one hand, more and better jobs for its members and the other has a solid interface and competence with the business world.

In the Cooperative model, the employee becomes entrepreneur himself and determines together with the other members costs, profit-sharing, the terms and forms of business organization to optimize costs and meet common needs. One of the main vectors of the cooperative model is represented by advanced forms of cooperation such as outsourcing that are transforming the world of work and of employment with better guarantees for both cooperative members and businesses who use their services.

In terms of bureaucracy,the following steps are typically required for the formation of a Cooperative Company:

• A minimum of three founding members
• Public Association and Articles
• Register of Companies
• Tax Code and VAT
• Registration at the Chamber of Commerce and Revenue Agency
• Registration in Register of Cooperative Companies

Gruppo La Meridiana is advising to read the guide Fibo.it, which sets out in a clear and concise useful information on how to give substance to the projects in the field of cooperation. Here is the link to the guide: Fibo.it Guide

Once started, the cooperative needs to have as many possible relationships with other enterprises, organizations and cooperatives. In an increasingly competitive world one of the solutions is to invest in a work-force, join a consortium as the Gruppo La Meridiana can be the decisive choice to make to their cooperative the leap.

The immediate benefits are definitely related to the fiscal, administrative, and marketing world.

Gruppo La Meridiana is a consortium dynamic and flexible, present in the Italian business for more than ten years and that already includes several cooperatives in various production sectors.