Co-op Group opens new store next to its Manchester HQ

The new city centre store follows a £660,000 investment by the member-owned retailer

Press reports say Co-op Energy is in merger talks with rival Octopus

The energy provider, part of Midcounties Co-op, reported a loss in its most recent results

Co-op Group urges councils to bin delay to home food waste collections

The retailer says composting or energy generation from food waste will help cut greenhouse emissions

New Zealand co-ops celebrated at sector’s annual awards

Winners included Livestock Investment Corporation, Fonterra and the 150-year-old SBS Bank

Lincolnshire’s new store at heart of city centre redevelopment

The store forms part of the restoration of Lincoln’s historic Cornhill Quarter

Central England Co-op to open new store in Derbyshire village

The store, in Calow, opens on 23 August

Housing co-op opens 48 new homes in Glasgow

Hawthorn Housing Co-op built the properties on a derelict site in the Possilpark district

Fonterra dairy co-op predicts possible $675m loss – and no dividend

The New Zealand giant faces problems with its overseas expansion, drought in Australia and competition at…

Obituary: Sean Moran and Dave Brooks, leading lights of Radical Routes

Cath Muller remembers two stalwarts of West Yorkshire’s worker co-op movement

Co-op Bank cuts first-half losses to £38.5m

The Bank, now owned by hedge funds after a financial crisis forced its sale by the…

Obituary: Alistair Asher, a crucial figure in the Co-op Bank rescue

As general counsel to the Co-op Group, Mr Asher recognised the crisis at the Bank posed…

US electric co-op giant Tri-State promises a switch to renewables

But critics say the supplier, which serves 43 co-ops, has been slow to move away from…