The Cricket/il Grillo

E - RESOURCES AND SUSTAINABILITY

E1a - Total annual income of GP 2011/12
€ 3.450.000

E1b - How is this made up?
For its financing the cooperative addresses banks, but also asks for loans by its shareholders, under an interest rate in line with the market rules.

E1c - Details of human resources
90 persons, of whom 34 associates, 39 employees and 17 temporary contract-based workers participate to the Cooperative.

E1d - Details of technology
The most significant technological application is the designing and management of collection centers (recycling eco-centers).

E1e - Details of financial investment for start-up/early stage
None to date

E1f - Details of external support
The cooperative, for its financing, addresses the banks, but asks also for loans by its shareholders.

E2 - If public funding were withdrawn, could the GP continue to exist?
Il Grillo has an enterpreneurial approach so, even if the public funding were withdrawn, the cooperative continue to exist thanks the improve of its activities (expecially the sustainability of the provision of services) and of the market network that is one of its future goal.