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		<title>Empowering Entrepreneurs: Purchasing Co-ops Give Small Businesses An Edge</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[<p>Howard Brodsky set out to conquer the carpet world. Dan Bleier just wanted to save his family-owned business. But both cherished their independent status in a retail chain, &#8220;big box&#8221; business world. Now, each realizes success through a purchasing cooperative.The pair spent almost eight months reviewing different business models, disqualifying one after another. Then they looked at cooperatives. Brodsky and Bleier are founders of two of the estimated 300 purchasing cooperatives in the United States—a sector which serves roughly 50,000 independent business owner-members. <a href='http://www.redefiningfederalism.org/empowering-entrepreneurs-purchasing-co-ops-give-small-businesses-an-edge' rel="nofollow">Read more</a></p>Here is no comments yet by the time  your rss reader get this, Do you want to be the first commentor? Hurry up ]]></description>
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