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Federated Co-operatives Limited (FCL), operating as Co-op, is a co-operative federation providing procurement and distribution to member co-operatives in Western Canada. [3] [4] It was established in 1944 after a series of amalgamations of smaller cooperatives, starting in Saskatchewan, including the Saskatchewan Co-operative Wholesale Society and a fuel production and distribution co-op, [1 ...
Co-op Atlantic. Valu Foods; Village Food Stores; Coppa's Fresh Market; Fairway Markets; Calgary Co-op; Federated Co-operatives Ltd. Heritage Co-op (Western Manitoba) Lake Country Co-op; North Central Co-op; Red River Co-op; Saskatoon Co-op; Sherwood Co-op; IGA / MarketPlace IGA in British Columbia only; Grande Cheese; H Mart; Highland Farms; Le ...
Calgary Co-operative Association Limited, trading as Calgary Co-op, is a retail cooperative operating in Calgary, Alberta, Canada. It was formerly associated with the Federated Co-operatives (FCL) system, but began cutting ties with the organization in 2019.
In 1948 Red River Co-op opened their first food stores in Winnipeg. [5] In 1983, due to poor financial performance they ceased food store operations; they shifted focus on their gas bar operations. [5] In 2014, when Sobeys acquired Safeway, they were forced to sell 23 locations by the federal Competition Bureau.
On March 22, 2018, the Overwaitea Foods banner became defunct with the closure of the last two locations in British Columbia, which were reopened the following day as Save-On-Foods stores. [3] In August 2019, Calgary Co-op announced that it would switch grocery suppliers from Federated Co-operatives to Overwaitea, stating that this would ...
Karma Co-op (Toronto, Ontario): [3] One of Canada’s oldest food co-ops, it focuses on local, sustainable, and organic foods. Kootenay Co-op (Nelson, British Columbia): A member-owned co-op known for natural and organic foods. East End Food Co-op (Vancouver, British Columbia): A community-focused store offering local and fairly traded products.
The IGA operations in Atlantic Canada were sold to Loblaw Companies Limited (except for Edmundston, Shediac and Dieppe which runs as IGA-Co-op, previously acquired by Sobeys New Brunswick) and were restructured under its existing brands. The company-owned stores west of Quebec now mainly operate under the Sobeys banner.
The company was founded in 1927 in Moncton as a small Agricultural supply agricultural co-operative whose main idea was to provide a means for local farmers to promote their livestock. Today the group has 128 member co-operative enterprises across Atlantic Canada and Quebec. In 2015, Co-op Atlantic sold its grocery distribution operations to ...