On March 4, 1964, under the inspiring leadership of Dr. Uriel Estrada Calderón, a group of twenty-seven doctors founded the Medical Cooperative of Valle (Ccoomeva). Intending to jointly offer financial and insurance services, the group harnessed the cooperative structure of credit unions. Gradually the successful model attracted more members: first doctors and later individuals from […]
Cooperativa Médica del Valle y de Profesionales de Colombia – Coomeva
Coomeva is a cooperative that groups 265,000 professionals and offers a wide range of products and services. Its assets total 2.5 billion dollars and its equity totals 275 million, ranking among the 20 largest companies in Colombia. Coomevas services are articulated in a business group of 16 companies in the health, finance and recreation and […]
Ilígora Cooperative: training and jobs to serve the local community
The Ilígora Cooperative is located in Montora, a town of 10.000 inhabitants in the province of Córdoba, Spain, where it works in various aspects of the service sector. It was created in 2005 by the Jesús Nazareno Hospital Foundation and the El Yate Cooperative. Since then it has increased its activities, becoming an important source […]
Ilígora Cooperative
The Ilígora Cooperative, part of the Grupo El Yate, in Montoro (Cordoba) Spain, provides in-home and residential geriatric services. The Cooperative does this through work integration and training for female workers.
A Different Museum: The co-operative Workers’ Museum in Copenhagen
Imagine a museum whose most precious possession is not a painting by Van Gogh or an art installation by Ai Weiwei but a 100-year-old packed lunch wrapped in an old newspaper from 1886! Such a museum actually exists. It is the Danish co-operative Workers Museum in Copenhagen, situated in a building which in itself is […]
Arbejdermuseet
Kooperationen is a Co-operative Employers Organisation in Denmark
Strength through unity
Cooperativa CoopeAgri El General R.L. is based in Pérez Zeledón, Costa Rica. Today it groups about 20,000 small coffee and sugar producers. Its history began 45 years ago, when it had about 365 members, a number that has increased exponentially. Its coffee exports amount to 170 thousand hundredweights per year, and it exports 30 thousand […]
Cooperativa Agrícola Industrial y de Servicios Múltiples El General R.L – COOPEAGRI
Since its founding, CoopeAgri El General R.L. has evolved greatly in terms of technology, level of production, and development alternatives. It is a cooperative that produces and distributes coffee, cane sugar, and organic fertilizer both nationally and internationally. The cooperative also has 4 supermarkets directly benefiting members, along with many other services. It is the […]
From Paraffin stoves to steel
In post-civil war Spain’s Basque country, a group of young, working class graduates with few job prospects founded a small co-operative to build paraffin stoves. They then began to set up other co-operative business ventures. When they needed capital for expansion, they started their own co-operative bank. These young people had been taught the ways […]
Mondragon Corporation
MONDRAGON Corporation is the embodiment of the co-operative movement that began in 1956; its business philosophy is contained in its Corporate Values: Co-operation, participation, Social Responsibility, Innovation. Mondragon’s Mission combines the core goals of a business organisation competing on international markets with the use of democratic methods in its business organisation, the creation of jobs, […]