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 […]
Aron Theatre
The Aron Theatre Co-operative is a not-for-profit business, powered by the residents of Campbellford, Ontario. The residents banded together in 2009 to save their community theatre from closing and have been running a successful consumer co-operative since May 2011.
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
Consum is the biggest cooperative in the Spanish Mediterranean arch, operating in the commercial distribution sector through Consum and Consum Basic supermarkets and Charter franchises. It is made up of worker-members and customer-members, and as a polyvalent coop-erative these members share in the capital, the management and the profits, as its owners.
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 […]
A Growing Share of Canada’s Funerals
Cooperative funeral homes have proven a highly successful model in Canada, and especially Quebec. The cooperative movement is growing, with 9,600 deaths treated by funeral cooperatives in 2011 in Canada, up more than 5 percent from 2010. The Fédération des Coopératives Funéraires du Québec (Federation of Funeral Cooperatives of Québec) is the umbrella structure for […]
Fédération des coopératives funéraires du Québec (Federation of Funeral Cooperatives of Québec)
The Federation of Funeral Cooperatives of Québec is the umbrella structure for all the funeral cooperatives in Québec. Founded in 1987, the Federation currently has 35 member cooperatives with a combined total of 170,000 members. The 23 member cooperatives located in Quebec handle over 90% of the deaths managed by all the funeral cooperatives of […]
How a funeral co-op was born
After having its funeral home contracts cancelled twice in 18 months by a large mulinational corporation, Service Corporation International, the members of PEOPLES MEMORIAL Association voted at their annual meeting on April 12, 2007 to open their own cooperative funeral home in Seattle. This new funeral home would be owned by the members of PEOPLES […]