 Encouraged by the communist leader A. K. Gopalan(AKG), the workers of the Coffee Board began a movement and compelled the Coffee Board to agree to handover the outlets to the workers who then formed Indian Coffee Workers' Co-operatives and renamed the network as Indian Coffee House.A co-operative began in Bangalore on 19 August 1957, and one was established in Delhi on 27 December 1957.Later Bellary and Madras (Chennai) Societies were separated from their mother societies.. Malviya Marg Branch, Jabalpur serves as the head office of ICWCS.