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Co-op housing honoured in UNESCO award for Le Corbusier buildings

As Unesco adds 17 buildings by Le Corbusier to its list of World Heritage sites, David…

Nepal celebrates National Co-operative Day

On 2 April Nepal celebrated its annual National Co-operative Day, recognising the three million people affiliated…

How is Fairtrade helping cocoa farmers?

The global demand for chocolate is predicted to rise by 30% by 2020, to more than…

A co-operative vision for public services

How can we build an economy for people, not profit? It can be done from the…

Co-op Group moves to reassure drivers over outsourcing plans

The Co-operative Group has written to 1,000 of its UK distribution drivers, after receiving notification from…

There’s no conflict of interest, Pippa Wicks tells tribunal

The Co-operative Group’s interim chief operating officer (COO) denied conflict of interest at an employment tribunal,…

When big co-ops fail

The international co-operative movement has seen a series of catastrophic failures of large scale co-operatives in…

List of top 100 co-ops in USA released

The National Cooperative Bank (NCB) in America has released its annual NCB Co-op 100 list. The…

Italy’s new co-op giant should remember its rich history

Italy has a long and successful tradition of co-operative enterprise. The first co-operatives began in the…

Investing in the co-operative movement

If you are looking to support the wider co-operative movement, you could join the ranks of…

Member economic participation: turning co-operative supporters into co-operative investors

The path to member economic participation, one of the core co-operative principles, never did run smooth.…

Report features twenty best practices from Latin American co-operatives

Cooperatives Europe has released a new report that showcases 20 of the best co-operative practices from…