FUTUR a small non-profit organization founded in Barcelona in 1996. Its aim is to create a social and labor opportunities for potentially excluded persons such as former prisoners, a single mother with no income, battered women, homeless people, people over 45 years old, suffered from long-term unemployment, drug addicts and alcoholics, and immigrants mainly from Latin America and North Africa, the challenge of adapting to life in Barcelona. Job type FUTUR provided those people have changed over time. The organization started its activities in the textile industry, and then turned his attention exclusively to food services. He was also committed to fair trade and environmentally friendly products. FUTUR opened several restaurants, and then expanded into the catering and, more recently, in school canteens, the latter becoming a very successful enterprise. They were also ready to launch your new business in addition to these initiatives. It was based on the sale of organic, fair trade products in the streets with vendors specifically designed for riding bicycles. However, organizations need to find new objects are equipped industrial kitchen, as it was moving out of the building it is currently renting for a symbolic price. With so many initiatives underway, Manuel Almirall pondered the pros and cons of diversification organizations like FUTUR and whether it should focus on a single company. In particular, he thought that the strategy will be more effective for the organization's mission while maintaining sustainable growth and to remove the central kitchens for restaurants and catering. "Hide
by Daniel Arenas, Alfred Vernis Source: Social Enterprise Knowledge Network 17 pages. Publication Date: June 19, 2009. Prod. #: SKE121-PDF-ENG
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