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Business transfers to employees under the form of a cooperative in Europe and in the world Bruno Roelants. Brussels, 26 September 2017. Ceramica di Imola, Italy, 1874. www.cicopa.coop. CITA, Argentina, 1952. www.cicopa.coop.
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Business transfers to employees under the form of a cooperative in Europe and in the world Bruno Roelants Brussels, 26 September 2017
Ceramica di Imola, Italy, 1874 www.cicopa.coop
CITA, Argentina, 1952 www.cicopa.coop
Successful cases for some time, but lack of regulation and environment: Shanghai 1997-1999 CICOPA project www.cicopa.coop
Difficult and then successful: Textiles Pigue, Argentina www.cicopa.coop
South Mountain Company, USA, 1987 www.cicopa.coop
South Mountain Company, USA, 1987 www.cicopa.coop
CHNC worker cooperative in Quebec: a radio bought out by its workers in 2005 www.cecop.coop
Uniforja, Brazil, 2000 www.cecop.coop
Screensud, in a suburb of Naples, produces steel nets for industrial sieving www.cicopa.coop
It was liquidated and successfully transferred in 2015 to 12 out of its 50 original workers and transformed into a cooperative www.cicopa.coop
CERALEP, 2002 www.cicopa.coop
CERALEP, 2002 www.cicopa.coop
CERALEP, 2002 www.cicopa.coop
CERALEP, 2002 www.cicopa.coop
Main reasons for business transfers to the employees as a cooperative: Economiccrisis and consequentfailures and bankruptcies ↓ Around half of enterprises survive less than five years. 600 companies in Europe go bust every day Demographic changes and aging population: retirement of business owners without succession ↓ 150,000 enterprises with no sucessor each year in EU www.cicopa.coop
A growing trend ITALY: at least 56 cases since 2008 SPAIN: at least 136 cases since 2008 FRANCE: 101 cases in 2014 alone www.cicopa.coop
Main success factors beyond the enterprise: www.cicopa.coop
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