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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…

‘Be more pirate’: a unique take on business development at September’s Social Business Wales Conference 

Author Sam Conniff-Allende will address this year’s Social Business Wales Conference in September

Saskatchewan solar co-op bids to power city hall

‘Our goal is to simply to accelerate the adoption of solar power in our community, using…

Leadership workshop offered ahead of Co-op Impact Conference

Co-op experts, academics and renowned guest speakers will share insights and stimulate vital debates

Lincolnshire Co-op helps staff local wildlife trust

‘Funds will also let us pay for flowers and foliage, so we can recreate the county’s…

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…