America’s largest outdoor co-op has relaunched its bicycle brand – and created one of the world’s most sustainable distribution…
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Show filtersHow does the size of a co-op affect its community interaction?
A group of co-op store managers share their thoughts on how they work with with communities.…
Finding your voice: how the Co-op Group is giving members say
“The concept of members having a say in their society is older than the Rochdale Pioneers,” says Mark…
Social innovation and the social and solidarity economy
Simel Esim and Waltteri Katajamaki from the International Labour Organization’s (ILO) Cooperatives Unit look at the importance…
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…
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…
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.…
Saigon co-operative makes top 10 Asia Pacific retailers list
A retail co-operative from Ho Chi Minh City has been included in a list of the…
The Marcora Law: an effective tool of active employment policy
Camillo De Berardinis, managing director of CFI, (Cooperazione Finanza Impresa – Cooperation Finance Enterprise), looks at how the Marcora…