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There are about 3 million cooperatives on the planet. 12% of global humanity is a member of a cooperative. 1 in 3 Americans are coop members. 1.5 million Americans live in a housing cooperative. Cooperatives electrically power 56% of the United States' landmass and 42 million people.
Arla Foods is a Swedish-Danish cooperative based in Aarhus, Denmark, and the largest producer of dairy products in Scandinavia.; Coop Norden (Coop Nordic) was a joint Scandinavian purchasing company that in 2007 dissolved and devolved to the constituent national cooperatives.
The history of the cooperative movement concerns the origins and history of cooperatives across the world. Although cooperative arrangements, such as mutual insurance , and principles of cooperation existed long before, the cooperative movement began with the application of cooperative principles to business organization.
At the outset, the Pioneers had a clear set of objects, as set out in "Law the First" of its rules: The objects and plans of the Society are to form arrangements for the pecuniary benefit, and improvement of the social and domestic condition of its members, by raising a sufficient amount of capital in shares of £1 each, to bring into operation the following plans and arrangements:
The Bike Cooperative – began in 2003 as a subsidiary of the Carpet One parent cooperative (CCA Global Partners); in 2009, it became a bona fide cooperative of independent US bike store owners [17] [18] Chez Hotels; Florists' Transworld Delivery (FTD) and Interflora (US and UK/Ireland affiliates demutualized in 1995 and 2006, respectively ...
AK Press, Chico, CA [3] Alvarado Street Bakery, Petaluma, CA; Arizmendi Bakery; Breitenbush Hot Springs Retreat & Conference Center, Detroit, OR [4] Che Cafe; Cheese Board Collective, Berkeley, CA; Citybikes Workers' Cooperative, Portland, OR; Defector Media, New York City, NY; Dollars and Sense, Boston, MA [5] East Harlem Cleaning LLC, New ...
(The Jubilee History of the Co-operative Wholesale Society 1863-1913 by Percy Redfern) viii, 439, [1] p.; tables & illustrations, includes lists of officials, and photographs of buildings and some officials. Includes graphs on thin paper relating to economic history from 1860 to 1912, by G. H. Wood. [2]
A second common form of co-operative federation is a co-operative union, whose objective (according to Gide) is “to develop the spirit of solidarity among societies and... in a word, to exercise the functions of a government whose authority, it is needless to say, is purely moral.” [2] Co-operatives UK and the International Co-operative Alliance are examples of such arrangements.