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End of year Q&A: Ali Kurji, CEO, Heart of England Co-op

'We have been trading for 190 years and have always overcome even the most daunting economic…

End of year Q&A: Joe Fortune, general secretary of the Co-op Party

'I’ve particularly enjoyed the work our Party has been doing with others from the wider co-operative…

End of year Q&A: Rose Marley, CEO, Co-operatives UK

'We had to take some major steps in terms of understanding what we’ve termed the democratic…

End of year Q&A: Shirine Khoury-Haq, CEO, Co-op Group

'While it’s been a challenging year, it’s been a hugely rewarding one. I’ve been incredibly proud…

Meet … R. Trebor Scholz, founding director of the Platform Cooperativism Consortium

'While the co-operative principles have the potential to profoundly transform the digital economy, co-operatives are, in…

Alison Hands on a life in retail – and her first six months as Lincolnshire CEO

'My role is to look at how the society is going to continue to make money…

UK Black History Month: ‘Co-ops should Rise to the occasion’

Interview with Ash Akhtar, co-chair of the Co-op Group's Rise network, which supports ethnic minority colleagues

Meet… Heini Dahlström, vice-president of loyalty at Finnish retail co-op SOK

'Our duty is to make sure our loyalty programme remains relevant and attractive to the next…

Interview: Stephen McDow II, co-operator standing for Democrats in Maryland 6

How can I take everything that I've learned about co-ops and try to embody that and…

Meet … Claude Hendrickson: Leading light of community self-build housing

'I’d like to see the government and local authorities put their money where their mouth is…

Diversity, equity and inclusion at work: Advice from Polina Changuleva

'As long as our society and businesses/co-ops consist of people, DEI will be an important and…

Building societies bring mutual values to bear on economic crisis

'The culture, behaviour and decisions made by building societies, credit unions and co-ops are different because…