Expand & Grow Co-ops
Expand & Grow Co-ops ⇀
Are you ready?
- Orientation
- Alignment
- Structure & capacity
Is it feasible?
- Market Study
- Financial Feasibility
- Internal Readiness
- Design Feasibility
What's the plan?
- Business Planning
- Timeline Development
- Bylaws & Membership
- Owner Capitalization
- External Capitalization
- Ongoing Support
Let's go
- Operations
FEATURED CASE STUDY

Building a New Equity Strategy
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Develop Your Talent
Develop Your Talent ⇀
Coaching and Mentoring
- GM Success Coaching Program
- Board/GM relations
- Mentoring
- Staff problems
Build HR Systems
- Employee handbooks
- HR Audits
- Recruiting and selecting
- Compensation Analysis
- Workplace investigations
Survey employees
- Staff satisfaction survey
- Policy compliance survey
Workplace Culture
- Open Book
- Organizational capacity
- Co-op Culture
- Crucial Conversations
FEATURED CASE STUDY

Evolving a Work Culture through Participation and Training
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Improve Operations
Improve Operations ⇀
Product Management
- Sales growth
- Pricing and margins
- Benchmarks
- Training
Staff Development
- Financial training
- Coaching and Mentoring
- Hiring and Training
- Labor management
- Cooperative Service Training
- Margin management
- Assessments
Fresh Foods
- Deli and Prepared Foods
- Produce
Safety and Security
- Loss prevention
- Emergency Preparedness
Marketing and Branding
- Marketing and Branding
- Brand Audits
Interim General Management
- Interim General Management
FEATURED CASE STUDY

Meat Department Sparks Reputation for Service and Quality
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Participation
Participation ⇀
Power of Participation
- Owner Engagement
- Staff Training, Development and HR
- Cooperative Service Training
- Expansions, Growth and Change
- Leadership and Communication Support
- Marketing, Communication and Merchandising
- Co-op Education and Culture
FEATURED CASE STUDY

Eastside Food Co-op Builds Enthusiasm for Co-op Development
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Cooperative Governance
Cooperative Governance ⇀
Our Approach
- Our Approach
- 4 Pillars Cooperative Governance
Our Team
- Our Team
CBLD Services
- Ongoing Hours + Retreat
- In-person events
- Enrollment
- Startups
Events
- CBL 101
- Building a Great Relationship
- Everyone Welcome?
- Co-op Cafe
- Event Logistics
Add-ons and Extras
- Individualized Events
- Special Deals
FEATURED CASE STUDY

Outpost's "High Five"
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Start a Co-op
Start a Co-op ⇀
4 Cornerstones in 3 Stages
- 4 Cornerstones in 3 Stages
Organizing Stage
- Orientation
- Member Outreach
- Planning
Feasibility/Planning Stage
- Market study
- Financial feasibility
- Internal readiness
- Design feasibility
What’s the plan?
- Business planning
- Timeline development
- Bylaws and membership
- Capitalization
- Governance
- Hiring
Implementation Stage
- Operations
FEATURED CASE STUDY

Benefits of 4 in 3 Model to Launch Startup
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Improve Operations

Margin management

Overview

Product Management

Sales growth

Pricing and margins

Benchmarks

Training

Staff Development

Financial training

Coaching and Mentoring

Hiring and Training

Labor management

Cooperative Service Training

Margin management

Assessments

Fresh Foods

Deli and Prepared Foods

Produce

Safety and Security

Loss prevention

Emergency Preparedness

Marketing and Branding

Marketing and Branding

Brand Audits

Interim General Management

Interim General Management

Margin Management and Analysis

Your financial performance can be positively influence by a small increase in margin.

Our consultants are experienced in analyzing margins and providing tips for improvement. We can help you enhance your gross profit while maintaining the price image you want:

Provide department manager training to build pricing and gross profit skills
Set realistic benchmarks for department margins
Provide tools to consistently achieve your desired margin
Create the competitive price image you desire

Associated Consultants

Capacity Assessment, Transitional Planning and Coaching

Operational and Financial Improvement

Associated Case Studies

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