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On May 20, 2019, the National Register of Historic Places in the United States, listed two four story sixteen apartment buildings, Alku 1 and Alku Toinen, (Finnish for Beginning 1 and 2), located at 816 and 826 43rd Street, Kings County Brooklyn New York, as the first two coop buildings in the US, built by Finnish immigrants, on the National Register of Historic Places.
The first dairy co-op was founded in 1810 with small locals found nationwide by 1866. The first known consumer co-op in 1845 was Boston's Workingman's Protective Union. The country's first organization to promote cooperative values and the Rochdale Principles was the Order of the Patrons of Husbandry, known as the Grange that started after the ...
Co-op Power was a renewable energy buying business which bulk purchased energy for a range of businesses and organisations. The business also provided energy consultancy services to clients. [131] The Co-op petrol station business was sold to Asda for £600 million in August 2022, to strengthen the group's financial position. The 129 petrol ...
Quizlet was founded in 2005 by Andrew Sutherland as a studying tool to aid in memorization for his French class, which he claimed to have "aced". [6] [7] [8] Quizlet's blog, written mostly by Andrew in the earlier days of the company, claims it had reached 50,000 registered users in 252 days online. [9]
Also Gray's Foods in Rockford. Fellow co-op Certified Grocers Midwest merged into Central Grocers in 2008. [3] [4] Prior to 2009, the company was headquartered in Franklin Park, Illinois. [5] [6] As of 2013, it was the seventh largest grocery cooperative in the United States, with over $2 billion on consolidated annual sales. [7]
A retailers' cooperative is a type of cooperative which employs economies of scale on behalf of its retailer members. [1] Retailers' cooperatives use their purchasing power to acquire discounts from manufacturers and often share marketing expenses.
Prairie Farms Dairy is a dairy cooperative founded in Carlinville, Illinois, and now headquartered in Edwardsville, Illinois, a suburb of St. Louis.As a dairy cooperative, Prairie Farms receives milk from producers and converts it into many different products, including cheese, butter, ice cream, sour cream, cottage cheese, various dips, yogurt, and fluid milk.
Growmark, Inc. (stylized as GROWMARK), is a regional agricultural supply cooperative operating in more than 40 states and one operation in Ontario, Canada. [1] Its local member cooperatives commonly use the trademark FS. Growmark ranks 74th on the ICA Global 300 2008 list of mutuals and cooperatives (ranked by revenue). [2]