Taller Escola Barcelona is the cooperative group that brings together the different cooperatives that make up TEB, and acts as the head of the group. Its board meetings take decisions regarding strategic directions, lines of finance, communication plan, etc. It first saw the light in 1974 as a social employment cooperative, and it was in the year 2000 that it was transformed into a cooperative group and the different cooperatives within it were established, taking its initials, TEB, as their common name: TEB Barcelona, TEB Vallès, TEB Habitatge, TEB Gestió, TEB Verd and TEB Solucions.