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 […]
Wachauer Marille Verarbeitung eG
The cooperative Wachauer Marille Verarbeitung eG has the goal of common treatment, processing and marketing of their fruits and vegetables, in the actual case the apricot
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 […]
Aseguradora Tajy S.A. Propiedad Cooperativa
With 14 years in the Paraguayan market Aseguradora Tajy is one of the top companies in the Paraguayan cooperative movement. Aseguradora Tajy operates in life and non-life and is made up of 24 cooperatives.
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 […]
Sociedad de Seguros de Vida Magisterio Nacional
The Sociedad de Seguros de Vida del Magisterio Nacional is dedicated to bringing financial protection to its members via the Mutual Life Insurance and complementary services.
The slow steps to change a way of thinking
In rural Nepal 81 per cent of women are victims of domestic violence. Nepal is home to the worlds tallest mountain, Everest. In Nepal, widows are termed bokshi and are cast out as witches. Nepal boasts one of the most beautiful expanses of nature in the world. In Nepal, a woman is raped once every […]
Patti Carpenter, Entrepreneur and ACDI/VOCA Volunteer, on the Value of Women in Cooperatives
With her keen sense of Western consumer preferences, Patti Carpenter, president and creative director of New York Citys Continuum Home, Inc./Carpenter + Company, works with artisans in emerging markets to design products that can be produced using indigenous forms and methods, and then she pitches them to such well-known retailers as Bloomingdales. Through organizations like […]