Michael Barrett was born and raised in the suburbs of Toronto, Canadas big smoke. He trained as a teacher but then went to work in a stock market-listed multinational. In 1999 he went to work for a small dairy cooperative, Gay Lea Foods. Certainly Gay Lea was seen as sleepy hollow, Barrett reflects. It was […]
GAY LEA FOODS CO-OPERATIVE LTD
Gay Lea Foods is a co-operative owned by over 1,200 farmers. That’s approximately one quarter of Ontario’s dairy farmers, with five production facilities spanning Toronto, Madoc, Mississauga, Guelph, and Teeswater. It manufactures a range of wholesome dairy products including milk, dips, butter, sour cream, whipped cream, and cottage cheese.
Unipol does its bit to get Italy back on its feet
In November 2011 Italy was on the brink of oblivion with bond markets set to send it tumbling into insolvency. Government and regulators were asked to act incisively and responsibly to re-establish the confidence of financial markets in the country. High volatility made it difficult to make even short-time financial forecasts. One month later Italy’s […]
Maltese islands haven for restoration and conservation coop
For a team of art lovers, the restoration work at hand becomes a source of major satisfaction. One starts off with a filthy wall with dirt and surface damage which as it is being documented, studied and conserved finds its way back to its strengthened and uncovered original splendor, explains Agatha Grima, director of the […]
ReCoop – The Restoration and Conservation Cooperative LTD
ReCoop is a fully recognised cooperative made up of professional individuals offering conservation, restoration, art historical, monitoring and consultancy services to the private and public sector, both locally and abroad.
Health Is More Than a Prescription
The streets surrounding the Coomsocial basic-care health clinics bustle with activity: buses and taxies pull up to curbs, trucks deliver supplies, merchants sell to throngs of customers. The clinics are a hub of all this activity. Taxi drivers, bus companies, food vendors, medical suppliers, and many other small businesses depend on the traffic of patients […]
COOPERATIVA MEDICA SOCIAL COOMSOCIAL IPS CTA
With nineteen years of institutional life under the model of an Associated Work Cooperative (CTA in Spanish), we act as a Health Services Provider (IPS in Spanish) institution in Colombia. To date, we have generated 150 dignified, stable, sustainable, and justly remunerated jobs to 150 individuals, and provide health services to 53,0000 Colombians that have […]
A story of one man’s cooperation
Paulino Imede has witnessed the coming, going and coming again of the cooperative movement in Mozambique, one of the world’s poorest countries. Niassa province, tucked in the north east of the slender slice of African nation which rests on the Indian Ocean in south-eastern Africa, is the former Portugese colony’s poorest province. Imede was one […]
Revival of direct trade between producer and consumer: sanchoku
Sanchoku is translated as the direct transaction from producer to consumer. It is one of the forms of business being championed by Japanese consumer co-operatives as a way of lifting the quality of food and the quality of care given to plants and animals. Sanchoku is agriculture supported by the community. It ensures stable procurement. […]
COOP Jednota sets the pace in Slovakia
There is an old Slovak saying, gold without wisdom is but clay. The same saying could be said to apply to the COOP Jednota, Slovakias largest domestic retail chain. Through the control and oversight of its member base it has been able to expand through a growth strategy implemented in 1990 and followed through with […]