The Co-operative Group is the UKs largest mutual business, owned not by private shareholders but by over six million consumers. It is the UKs fifth biggest food retailer, the leading convenience store operator and a major financial services provider, operating The Co-operative Bank, Britannia and The Co-operative Insurance. Among its other businesses are the number […]
A flow of member benefits
We sell plumbing gear to plumbers who are mainly our members, each with an equal vote. That’s the succinct description of the Plumber Supplies Co-operative (PSC) given by Tony Rogic, its general manager, sales. And it applied equally well when the co-operative was formed back in 1955. At that time Australian tradespeople faced a post-war […]
A supermarket for the people
The year is 1972 in Singapore and there was widespread panic buying because of the fears of a global food shortage that the global oil crisis brought about. Unscrupulous merchants took advantage of the situation by hoarding essentials and raising prices whenever they felt like it. To counter this, the National Trades Union Congress (NTUC) […]
NTUC Fairprice Co-operative Ltd
NTUC FairPrice Co-operative Ltd was founded by the labour movement in 1973, with a social mission to moderate the cost of living in Singapore. NTUC Fairprice Co-operative Ltd has grown from one supermarket in 1973 into Singapores largest grocery retailer serving about 400,000 shoppers daily, with a network of over 105 outlets today, comprising FairPrice […]
Downtown Daycare Co-operative: Giving parents a say
In May 2011, a group of women from the Women’s Co-op Business Program in New Brunswick decided to start a co-op for working parents – a place where parents could have a say in who takes care of their children and how. The result was the Downtown Daycare Co-operative, which opened its doors on March […]
Downtown Daycare Co-operative
The Downtown Daycare Co-operative is Moncton’s first non-profit, parent-owned daycare and one of the few daycares operating in the city’s core. It offers spaces for children from ages 15 months to four years along with a pre-school program for 4- and 5-year-olds and an after-school program for children ages five to 12. The goal of […]
iCOOP KOREA’s Practice for Enhancing Biodiversity in Rice Paddy Ecosystem
iCOOP KOREA is the second largest consumer co-op group in Korea. As a leading protagonist of ethical consumerism in civil society, it has engaged in various socioeconomic activities for protecting domestic agriculture and environment since 1998 when it was founded. Our business and activities cover direct-dealing of eco-friendly products, merchandising of more reliable processing foods, […]
iCOOP KOREA
iCOOP KOREA is a consumer co-operative group making alternatives through economic activites in respect of problems in our everyday life such as food safety, child care, gender, environment and agriculture in cooperation with members and their neighbors. iCOOP KOREA practices contract cultivation by communication with farmers who has exchanged for a long time, and provides […]
Planet Bean Coffee
Planet Bean Coffee is a division of the SUMAC worker co-operative. SUMAC was founded in 2005. The co-op owns and operates two divisions, Planet Bean Coffee and Wear Fair – Fair Trade & Organic Clothing. SUMAC is dedicated to providing products from Fair Trade and organic organisations throughout the world. Planet Bean Coffee was started […]
Consum takes a broad view
In a year when Spain turned to the Eurozone for bailout assistance, there has been one sector of the Spanish economy which is inspiring in troubled times. At Consum, one of Spain’s biggest cooperatives and one of the most significant retail cooperatives in Europe, profits rose in the past year when most of the rest […]