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Show filtersWorker co-op buyout secures future of Yorkshire skate park
Co-director Cath Muller says the team was able to meet a tight deadline for the sale…
Book review: Visions of a co-operative democracy to reshape society
Cooperation: A political, economic and social theory, Bernard E Harcourt, Columbia £28
Co-op sector nominations in the Retail Week Awards
Central Co-op is in the running for responsible retailer while the Co-op Group has a store…
Romanian farm co-ops visit Israeli kibbutz movement for irrigation lessons
The 27 co-ops taking the tour hope to double the area of their land under irrigation…
Employee-owned John Lewis is considering sale of minority stake to raise cash
The reports have sparked concern from the co-op sector – and led to renewed calls for reforms…
Southern Co-op gets ready to celebrate its 150th anniversary
The retailer was formed in 1873 as Portsea Island Mutual Co-operative Society, by dockyard workers fighting…
Sceptical response from co-op movement to Jeremy Hunt’s spring budget
A welcome for the £100m support fund for community business came alongside a call for more…
Welsh co-op development agency Cwmpas appoints new CEO
Bethan Webber, who joins from Home-Start Cymru, is 'a passionate advocate for social justice, equality and…
Co-op Group partners with Barnardo’s to help youth struggling through economic crisis
'Our work within communities has shown us the impact that the pandemic and the cost-of-living crisis…
John Lewis posts £234m loss as inflation bites the retail sector
The employee-owned retailer has also announced its new CEO, Nish Kankiwala, who has served on the…
Co-op Group brings its robot delivery service to Greater Manchester
The service will initially be available to 24,000 residents across 10,500 households in Sale