FCC was formed after Laurie Gregory, who had worked in local authority management for many years, took early retirement and saw the opportunity to react to agencies who had been poaching local authority foster carers. “Quite apart from the morality of it, we see no point in poaching existing foster carers,” Laurie said. “We want […]
A society of shoemakers expands
Romania has a long history of co-operation. Indeed, the first producer and service cooperative The Society of Shoemakers was founded in Bucharest in 1879. And, Romania can also lay claim to being one of the founders of the International Co-operative Alliance. Nearly two decades after the Society of Shoemakers was founded, Dimitrie C. […]
NATIONAL UNION OF HANDICRAFT AND PRODUCTION COOPERATIVES UCECOM
UCECOM’s main objective is the representation, defense, support and promotion of its associated members. At present, the membership consists of 525 co-operative entities (38 county unions and associations and 487 handicraft and production co-operative societies).
Oxfam partners with Armenian coops
Armenias mountainous expanses are home to many historical treasures, including the first church in the world to be built by the state. Indeed Armenia was the first country to recognise Christianity. It has, and has retained, its own unique alphabet. For all its ancient and historical treasures, this Eastern European nation has a high altitude […]
Aknaghbyur Cooperative
All 37 members of the Aknaghbyur Cooperative are involved in its agricultural business and benefit from the improved agricultural services provided the cooperative, including marketing services, agriculture input supply, collective cold storing.
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.
Cooperative football network grows in Africa
Football, association football, or soccer? Call it what you like, it is the world’s most popular sport. And, unpublicised though it is, the worlds best football club in 2012, FC Barcelona, is a member or socio owned club run on cooperative principles. The cooperative model works at the top end of the sport. And a […]
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 […]
Danish Crown
The Danish Crown group is an international food producer with production and sales across the world. Danish Crown, the parent company, produces and markets pork and beef. Danish Crown´s subsidiaries produce and market processed food products and other products for food production. It is the world’s largest exporter of pork.