Surrounded by jagged snow-capped peaks year-round, the Stubai Valley in the Austrian Alps is known for skiing, hikingand steel manufacturing. Starting in the 14th century, iron ore deposits were mined here, sparking the valleys nascent iron production and manufacturing industry. Now, the valley, which has a population of just 14,000, processes several thousand tons of […]
Rise and Shine youth co-operative
Khotso, pula, nala peace, rain, prosperity is the motto of the mountainous, landlocked Kingdom of Lesotho. Despite having been inhabited by the British, fought over by the Boers, then by its own people, this diamond-rich highland country has been at peace since 1999. With 40 per cent of its population living below the […]
CIC KENYA pays claims relating to post-election violence
Kenyan cooperative insurer, CIC Insurance Group, took a clear stand to pay claims resulting from losses due to political violence, unlike some insurance companies that have attached conditions to honoring such claims. Post-election related claims paid by the company amounted to about Kshs. 100 million (USD 1.2 million), mainly from small businesses owned by members […]
CIC Insurance Group
The CIC Insurance Group comprises CIC General Insurance limited,CIC Life Assurance limited and CIC Asset Management limited. The Company has been in operation for the last 33 years. CIC is owned by about 1,562 Co-operative Societies and around 3,875 individual Co-operators with the Co-operative Bank of Kenya Limited holding a 26% stake. CIC is the […]
Colline Giovani – “Youth Hills”
The Consortium Sol.Co. – Sicilian Social Enterprise Network works to achieve integration, promotion, interaction and quality assurance of social work throughout the territory. In June 2010, through an open tender, the Consortium was awarded a ten-year management contract of a property confiscated from the mafia. The property is now called “Youth Hills” and will be […]
Youngest cooperative in Lower-Austria supports members and the region
Nearly every tourist who visits Lower Austria stops for a pleasant stay in Wachau. The unique cultural landscape around the Danube is characterized by steep vineyards, which are edged from natural stone walls and bordered by apricot trees. Wachaus wine is famous all around the world. The apricot trees excite visitors in the springtime with […]
Insuring the world’s soya beans
Paraguay is sometimes referred to as Corazón de América, or the Heart of America. While it has before boasted the fastest growing economy in the globe a large proportion of Paraguays population derives its income from agriculture, much of it from subsistence farming. Paraguay is also an important producer of soya beans, being the sixth […]
Out of crisis rises P&V
When the P&V cooperative insurance group decided to double in size through the purchase of the brokers channel of INGs Belgium operations, it didn’t realise the Global Financial Crisis was about to descend upon it. If anything demonstrates the resilience of the cooperative insurance model, that moment was it. It took place on the eve […]
P&V Group
The P & V Group is a cooperative insurance group that was founded in 1907 with the aim of offering as many people as possible fair protection. Over the years, the group has grown steadily. Each brand and distribution channel which forms part of the P & V Group has their own identity. However, they […]
SSVMN dominates insurance in Costa Rica
It was a rural schoolteacher, Alejandro Rodríguez, who first raised the idea of a social institution in Costa Rica. The year was 1920 and the country was fresh from the unhappy reign of military dictator General Federico Tinoco Granados. After Granados was overthrown, the unpopularity of his regime led to a considerable decline in the […]