Independent Business Alliance
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The term Independent Business Alliance refers to local affiliates of the American Independent Business Alliance (AMIBA). According to AMIBA's website, "An IBA is a coalition of locally-owned independent businesses, citizens and community organizations united to support home town businesses in a community or geographic region...The AMIBA aims to help seed, support and network these alliances."
The first Independent Business Alliance (IBA) originated in Boulder, Colorado in 1998 and developed the model that has been advanced by more than 75 local IBAs affiliated with the AMIBA in the United States and Canada. Their organizing model also has been emulated by dozens of other groups. Independent Business Alliances exist in communities ranging from 1,800 to several million residents, covering 34 states and the province of Alberta. Collectively, these IBAs represent about 20,000 independent businesses.
The name Independent Business Alliance is a trademark of the AMIBA that applies specifically and exclusively to its affiliates (no other organization can include "Independent Business Alliance" in its name), though affiliates are not obliged to use the name.
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