ICBA Mission
To provide the programs and services that will establish the institutional store model as the preferred management solution for higher education.

ICBA Strategic Goals
RELATIONSHIPS
We are enhancing the relationships as owner stores, between stores and vendors, and with other organizations. We are discovering cooperative activities with other industry organizations that have independent stores as members.

SERVICES
We are supporting our owners with marketing, campus relations, product forecasting, fiscal, freight, staff development, merchandising, consulting and other retail management services.

MERCHANDISE
We are creating programs that are unsurpassed in apparel, giftware, raingear, consumer electronics, computer products, school and office supplies, fine art supplies, merchandise bags, dated goods, writing instruments, and more. There are lots of 'buying groups'in this business. We are not one of them. ICBA, The Selling Group.

EDUCATION
We provide the best opportunity for interaction at multiple levels of store management through our Annual Meeting, ICBA regional meetings, Internet and web-based learning and training systems. Our culture as Independent stores delivers a value unavailable in any other venue. ICBA is the coming together of owners and decision makers prepared to openly, freely and enthusiastically share operational improvements, and a commitment to putting our schools and students first.

TECHNOLOGY
We are using today's technology to deliver ICBA's benefits and value to our owner stores. pdf, jpg, eps, com, edu - no matter how you spell it, we are reaching each other with solutions we can share.

A College-Owned Retail Cooperative