PEOPLES MEMORIAL Funeral Cooperative is a member-owned funeral home founded to serve the communities of the Seattle-King County area. As a member-owned cooperative, our focus is on serving our members and their families rather than on meeting sales quotas.
How Fonus made funerals affordable
Men in black plundering estates was how newspapers depicted the Swedish funeral industry in 1944. So outrageous was the price of burying your dead that the debate reached as far as the Swedish parliament. Moving into action the Church of Sweden approached the Swedish Cooperative Union, the KF, hoping the popular movement could help. And […]
Fonus
Fonus economic association was founded in order to promote an ethical practice within funeral services and deliverance at moderate prices. With subsidiaries in Sweden and Norway, Fonus, besides certified funeral services, operates in family law and we are accordingly able to attend to our customers throughout their lives. The unique cooperative ownership gives members insight […]
Weavers Way Food Cooperative
Weavers Way Cooperative Association exists to provide commercial and community services for the greater good of its members and community, to champion the cooperative model and to strengthen the local economy. We currently operate two grocery stores, Urban Farms focused on production and education, within the city limits of Philadelphia, and a non-profit arm that […]
The Hottest Plot in the Garden
One late summer while strolling through a Minneapolis farmers market with my young teenager, I was introduced to one of the hottest chilies in the world. A handwritten sign, Ghost pepper is the worlds hottest pepper atop a little basket holding a handful of bright-orange, wrinkled fruits ignited my sons interest. The grower cautioned us […]
Water not only quenches one’s thirst, it also heals
Zelenogradskaya real has been produced by the cooperative Kaliningrad Consumer Society Commercial and Trade Centre 2 for almost 20 years. The mineral water is extracted from the deepest well of the region, with a depth of 274 meters. It is characterized by its good taste, an absence of artificial additives, and has an optimal […]
More and more Co-operator shops opening in the Republic of Buryatia
For small-scale consumer societies competition makes survival difficult. That is why the Union of Consumer Societies of Buryatia (Burcoopsojuz) has consolidated its operations in order to improve the competitiveness of consumer cooperatives. This consolidation was successfully implemented by the consumer society, translated from Russian as Universal trade base of Burcoopsojuz. As of today, 100 shops, […]
Villagers from distant settlements always happy to see cooperative shop-vans
During winter about 10 retirees live in the settlement of Nikolskoe (Bryansk Region). The streets are empty; there is no reason to come here, maybe only to get water. But twice a week the settlement comes to life on Tuesday and Friday when the mobile shop-van of the Zhilyatinski Consumer Society arrives. Early in […]
CENTRAL UNION of Consumer Societies of the Russian Federation (CENTROSOJUZ OF RUSSIA)
Centrosojuz of the Russian Federation unites more than 3 thousand consumer societies and more than 4 million shareholders all over country. The member organizations provide jobs for about 300 thousand people. These consumer societies include production organizations, purchasing centers for agricultural products, domestic services centers, public catering establishments, and shops.
Bringing home the bacon
Viewing an interactive map of the 125-year history of pig slaughtering in Denmark is reminiscent of watching wildfire spread in a raging wind. Pig slaughtering has become big business in Denmark. At the centre of this big business which began in the cooperative slaughterhouses of Horsens in Denmarks centre is the 125-year-old Danish Crown. Today […]